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Music Is My Savior
Studio album by
Mims
ReleasedMarch 27, 2007 (2007-03-27)
Recorded2006–2007
Studio
GenreHip-hop
Length57:30
LabelCapitol
Producer
Mims chronology
Music Is My Savior
(2007) 		Guilt
(2009)
Singles from Music Is My Savior
  1. "This Is Why I'm Hot"
    Released: December 12, 2006
  2. "Like This"
    Released: February 20, 2007

Music Is My Savior is the debut studio album by American rapper Mims. It was released on March 27, 2007, via Capitol Records.

Recording sessions took place at BlackOut Studios in Miami, 2wizlin' Studios in Pasadena, SoundisGeto Studios in Independence, and Studio Atlantis. Production was handled by the Blackout Movement members Winston Thomas, Danny Schofield and Thomas Simons, D. Baker, Twizz, Kobayashi, the Vault Productions and Ty Fyffe. It features guest appearances from Bun B, J. Holiday, LeToya Luckett, Purple Popcorn, the Bad Seed, Baby Cham and Junior Reid.

In the United States, the album debuted at number 4 on the Billboard 200, number 2 on both the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums and Top Rap Albums and number 7 on the Tastemaker Albums charts, selling 78,000 copies sold in the first week.[1] It also made it to number 109 on the French Albums Chart and number 14 on the UK Hip Hop and R&B Albums Chart.

Its lead single, "This Is Why I'm Hot", reached the number-one spot on the Billboard Hot 100, number 14 on the Official Finnish Charts, number 18 on the UK singles chart, number 19 on the Canadian Hot 100, top 40 in New Zealand, Australia and Sweden, and top 75 in France, Germany and Switzerland. The Recording Industry Association of America certified the song Platinum on March 22, 2007 for the sales of 1,000,000 copies and double Platinum on October 2, 2012 for the digital sales of 2,000,000 units in the US alone.

The album's second single, "Like This", made it to number 32 on the US Billboard Hot 100 and number 82 on the UK singles charts, and received Gold certification by the RIAA on October 2, 2012.

The song "Cop It" was featured in the EA Sports game Madden 08.[2] A snippet of the song "Superman" was used in Britain's Got Talent 2009 winners Diversity's routine.

Critical reception

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Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic64/100[3]
Review scores
SourceRating
About.com[4]
AllMusic[5]
Entertainment WeeklyB[6]
HipHopDX3/5[7]
Los Angeles Times[8]
RapReviews7/10[9]
Rolling Stone[10]
The Guardian[11]

Music Is My Savior was met with generally favorable reviews from music critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream publications, the album received an average score of 64 based on eight reviews.[3]

In her album review for AllMusic, Marisa Brown praised the artist, saying: "he can focus on the serious, the sentimental, or the fun side of life when he needs to, but he does it all without seeming like he's forcing out a persona".[5] Simon Vozick-Levinson of Entertainment Weekly stated: "the disc contains more than a few moments where Mims' quick, confident style recalls Jay-Z's mid-'90s blinged-out phase".[6] Steve 'Flash' Juon of RapReviews wrote: "these may be simple tales, but Mims' flow is a smooth Manhattan flow clearly influenced by the likes of New York greats like Jay-Z while still vocally unique enough to entice a listener to pay attention".[9] Ken Capobianco of The Boston Globe called the album a "fluid, likable disc".[12]

In mixed reviews, Christian Hoard of Rolling Stone stated: "Mims can't carry a whole album, and Savior is long on quasi-Southern junk rhymes about Mims' general excellence and panty-melting suaveness".[10] Alex Macpherson of The Guardian found the album "generic, yes, but that is no cause for complaint when the genre is so good".[11] Chris Yuscavage of Vibe called it "a tepid debut".[13] Serena Kim of Los Angeles Times concluded: "peel away the accessibility of his fluffy debut and there's nothing but major-label album fodder".[8]

Track listing

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No.TitleWriter(s)Producer(s)Length
1."Intro"
2:13
2."It's Alright"
  • BlackOut
  • DannyBoyStyles
  • DJ Menace (co.)
3:17
3."This Is Why I'm Hot"
  • BlackOut
  • DannyBoyStyles
  • Thomas Simons
4:13
4."Girlfriends Fav MC" (featuring J. Holiday)
  • Mims
  • Timothy Bailey Jr.
  • Derek Baker
  • Twizz
  • D. Baker
3:39
5."Where I Belong"
Ty Fyffe3:51
6."Cop It"
  • Mims
  • Simons
Thomas Simons3:01
7."Big Black Train"
  • Mims
  • Bailey Jr.
  • Baker
  • Twizz
  • D. Baker
3:55
8."They Don't Wanna Play" (featuring Bun B and the Bad Seed)
  • Mims
  • Thomas
  • Schofield
  • Simons
  • BlackOut
  • DannyBoyStyles
  • Thomas Simons
4:05
9."Like This"
  • Mims
  • Thomas
  • Schofield
  • BlackOut
  • DannyBoyStyles
3:23
10."Just Like That"
  • Mims
  • Brendan Yearwood
The Vault Productions3:20
11."Without You" (featuring LeToya Luckett)
  • Mims
  • Thomas
  • Schofield
  • Simons
  • BlackOut
  • DannyBoyStyles
  • Thomas Simons
4:12
12."Superman"
  • Mims
  • Thomas
  • Schofield
  • BlackOut
  • DannyBoyStyles
3:27
13."This Is Why I'm Hot (Remix)" (featuring Cham and Junior Reid)
  • BlackOut
  • DannyBoyStyles
  • Thomas Simons
3:37
14."Doctor Doctor"
Kobayashi3:40
15."Don't Cry (Outro)" (featuring Purple Dragon)
  • Mims
  • Thomas
  • Schofield
  • BlackOut
  • DannyBoyStyles
4:06
16."I Did You Wrong"
  • Mims
  • Thomas
  • Schofield
  • BlackOut
  • DannyBoyStyles
3:31
Total length:57:30
Sample credits

Charts

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References

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  1. ^ Hasty, Katie (April 4, 2007). "McGraw Leads Seven Top 10 Debuts Onto Billboard 200". Billboard. Retrieved June 4, 2025.
  2. ^ "Madden 08 drafts song list". GameSpot. June 29, 2007. Retrieved June 4, 2025.
  3. ^ a b "Critic Reviews for Music Is My Savior - Metacritic". Metacritic. Retrieved June 4, 2025.
  4. ^ Adaso, Henry. "Mims - Music Is My Savior - Album Review of Mims' Music Is My Savior". About.com. Archived from the original on October 6, 2007. Retrieved June 4, 2025.
  5. ^ a b Brown, Marisa. "Music Is My Savior - Mims | Album | AllMusic". AllMusic. Retrieved June 4, 2025.
  6. ^ a b Vozick-Levinson, Simon (March 23, 2007). "Music Is My Savior". Entertainment Weekly. Archived from the original on March 26, 2007. Retrieved June 4, 2025.
  7. ^ Kuperstein, Slava (April 11, 2007). "MIMS - Music Is My Savior". HipHopDX. Retrieved June 4, 2025.
  8. ^ a b Kim, Serena (March 27, 2007). "Fresh and the followers". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved June 4, 2025.
  9. ^ a b Juon, Steve 'Flash' (April 3, 2007). "MIMS :: Music Is My Savior :: Capitol/EMI Music". RapReviews. Retrieved June 4, 2025.
  10. ^ a b Hoard, Christian (April 2, 2007). "Music Is My Savior : Mims : Review : Rolling Stone". Rolling Stone. No. 1024 (published April 19, 2007). p. 63. Archived from the original on October 30, 2007. Retrieved June 4, 2025.
  11. ^ a b Macpherson, Alex (May 18, 2007). "MIMS, Music Is My Savior". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved June 4, 2025.
  12. ^ Capobianco, Ken (April 17, 2007). "Heat wave from New York - Boston.com". The Boston Globe. Archived from the original on March 4, 2016. Retrieved June 4, 2025.
  13. ^ Yuscavage, Chris (May 2007). "Revolutions". VIBE. Vibe Media Group. p. 121.
  14. ^ "Lescharts.com – Mims – Music Is My Savior". Hung Medien. Retrieved June 4, 2025.
  15. ^ "Official R&B Albums Chart Top 40". Official Charts Company. Retrieved June 4, 2025.
  16. ^ "The Billboard 200". Billboard. Vol. 119, no. 15. Nielsen Business Media, Inc. April 14, 2007. p. 40. ISSN 0006-2510. Retrieved June 4, 2025.
  17. ^ "Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums". Billboard. Vol. 119, no. 15. Nielsen Business Media, Inc. April 14, 2007. p. 47. ISSN 0006-2510. Retrieved June 4, 2025.
  18. ^ "Top Rap Albums". Billboard. April 14, 2007. Retrieved June 4, 2025.
  19. ^ "Tastemaker Albums". Billboard. April 14, 2007. Retrieved June 4, 2025.
  20. ^ "Top Billboard 200 Albums – Year-End 2007". Billboard. Nielsen Business Media, Inc. ISSN 0006-2510. Retrieved June 4, 2025.
  21. ^ "Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums – Year-End 2007". Billboard. Nielsen Business Media, Inc. ISSN 0006-2510. Retrieved June 4, 2025.
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