MUSIC IS MY SAVIOR - I HATE THIS ALBUM SO MUCH F THIS CD IT IS A WAIST OF GWOCK. I HATE HIM HE SUCKS VERY BAD HE NEEDS TO STEP HIS LYRICS UP A LOT. A VERY BAD ALBUM DO NOT GET THIS EVER DON T EVEN THINK ABOUT IT.
LOVE IT! - Okay - all the people reviewing this are wrong! Is this some great piece of rap art that will live in infamy? No! Is it a really great CD with a lot of songs that get your butt on the dance floor and stick in your head all day long? YES! Love it all!
One-ringtone wonder - MIMS - Music is My Savior (Capitol, 2007)Earlier this year, there was speculation on who would bring hip-hop back to New York where it all began. Then Shawn Mims came with the single, This is Why I m Hot, which although contains the worst lyric of 2007 (I m hot cuz I m fly/You ain t cuz you not), was catchy enough to have the streets buzzin . But once Music is My Savior dropped, so did the buzz. This album ain t hot and this is why, this is why:MIMS goes through every song with played out thug-isms like pushing nice whips, pulling easy honeys, and challenging wack rappers in his spare time. It also doesn t help matters that on occasion he sounds like Jay-Z. But once he starts quipping medicore metaphors like on Just Like That (I m looking for that sunshine/But I ain t Lil Flipper/Yeah I m a star/But I ain t the lil dipper) it s a wrap. Junior Reid and Cham barely save This is Why I m Hot (Blackout Remix) but this album is still a bust. So much for the New York revival as this album proves that wack rappers don t just reside in the south, they re all around us. -EJR
Some savior! - Mims is straight up garbage! You dont have to take my word for it but take time to look at these verses and judge for yourselves. Hip Hop Laughables from Mims: Superman:Some say Im fly/ they say Im the best/ catch me in the sky with the S on my chest/ chicks call me Superman/ super duper lover/ Just in case it rains keep the Coupe De Ville for coversChorus for Big Black Train: Shorty wanna ride/ dont worry bout a car/ Cause you can take a ride on My Big Black Train/and we gone be rollin rollin rollin/ choo choo chooin/ NY ATL LA HoustonCop It: Yes its me/ the underestimated MC, So ill with the flow/ that I need a MD/ Somebody call a doctor/ I make em all sick/when I hop out the phantom of the opera(???). Now gimme my space/ Im out of this world/ N***** tryna get a nut/ but Im a very big squirrel(Oh come on! That doesnt even make sense! But then again he does kind of resemble Dale from Chip and Dale) Im Microsoft Mims/ I rock with Bill Gates/first week shipped a mill out the gate(that remains to be seen) You bulls*****n / Im talking what I could do/ Mims is hotter than cooked food /Wow thats real/ Ya ll ice grilled/ Im laughing all the way to the bank with a nice meal. Need I write more? As you can see he has the most corniest rhymes since Jibbs and most of his rhymes dont make any sense. There s nothing I could say about this album that Chandler, Anthony Rupert and Norfeest havent said so I wont go into detail. There s at least 3 decent tracks on this album, Doctor Doctor, Where I Belong and They Dont Wanna Play(the saving graces of that song was Bun B). The rest of this album is unwashed crusty booty. The first single, This Is Why Im Hot sounds like a track Yung Joc would make and while Like This has a catchy club beat, that track is beyond cheesy. Superman is easily the worst song on this album and tracks like Girlfriend s Fav MC, Cop It and Big Black Train are so wack they make me laugh till my ribs ache.Bottom Line: Misery Is My Soulmate oops I meant to say Music Is My Savior is a shoe in for one of the worst releases of 2007 by a rapper who set New York back a thousand years with this album. Corny rhymes, decent beats, just a waste of good cd space period. I seriously question your sanity if you give this album more than two stars. If music is Mims s savior then he needs to convert to atheism because music has forsaken him.
2.5/5 - I m just reviewing now due to his second album coming out soon, entitled Music Is My Savior II. I don t get how people like UGK and hate this guy, what is the difference really? You guys are being hypocrites. Of course MIMS isn t on the same level as legends like UGK, but he isn t really bad. When this came out, I wasn t really a fan because of the party songs. I m not very big on east coast party rappers, I expect lyrically talent from them. Despite this, there are some real nice cuts. Doctor, Doctor includes a story of his past. I don t know this guy s life, but if he s had a troubled past, he did a wonderful job telling it by his single standard because I didn t expect this. There are about 6 out of the 15 tracks that are very well done, which does bring the album down. Too much skipping for me. I request MIMS to create a character or make a biography by extending the story within Doctor, Doctor. That would be a great album. 2.5/5 -- not worth buying but give Doctor,Doctor a listen.