Benny From The Sandlot brings us something much more nourishing and lasting with his latest "Crossroads" featuring Square 2 God. Just like his name and style suggest, Benny delivers the heart of a street legend and the discipline of a playground captain in this soul-bottling BoomBap anthem.
"Crossroads" reads like a page torn out of an underground magazine, raw, reflective, and steeped in purposeful diary. This is a song for the people waiting out life at the crossroads, searching for direction and themselves within it. Benny's diction is sharp but weighted, and he sounds like a man who has seen his fair share of uphill battles and is never afraid to reveal the well-earned emotional calluses. The song leans toward the deep-pocketed swing of classic Conscious Hip-Hop, with a dusty beat that sounds like it was pulled from a crate beneath your uncle's turntable.
The production is willing canvas for Benny and Square 2 God to paint their lyrical truths. And Square 2 God transcends. His verse is a collaboration of the sort that doesn't dilute the message but underscores it, bouncing off Benny's vigor with equal amounts of wisdom and heft. Benny From The Sandlot is back at it, reminding that he's playing to mean something. "Crossroads" is a message to the authentic Hip-Hop culture that continues to live, still bleeding, still believing.