Music Review: “Shwayze” S/T (Suretone/Geffen)

Rating: 13 

If Shwayze’s self-titled debut is any measure, music biz kid Cisco Adler will always have more hits on TMZ.com than he ever will on Billboard — his post-Whitestarr project with rapper Aaron Smith is a toxic green haze of lazy rhymes, low aims and money-bred sleaze set to dime-store beats. It’s Sublime for the rich and brainless, except this high-gloss, high-dross collection of sunstroke anthems by two slack hacks perma-stoned on marijuana, mojitos and misogyny proves that Laguna Beach is light years away from Long Beach.

“Shwayze” has its dumb charms until the buzz wears off — in cold-sober light, this is 13 variations on the same song. It’s hard to tell where “Corona and Lime” ends and “Buzzin’” begins, mainly because they are both absent-minded mediations on getting bombed and getting lucky on the strength of Dad’s bank account. Smith says he’s “a genius — Bill Clinton with my speeches,” which doesn’t exactly rhyme or lend credence to his argument, especially when a minute later his “genius” is spouting what amounts to a hastily posted party flier.