Music Is My Savior

MIMS | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (March 27, 2007)
• Original Release Date: 2007
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Capitol
• ASIN: B000NJL4YO
• In-Print Editions: Audio CD  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 2.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (40 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #114,073 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Editorial Reviews

When it comes to Hip Hop culture, Uptown, New York City has been home to many urban trends that have impacted the world with Harlem being its most prominent contributor. But if you were to ask Washington Heights-based rapper Shawn Mims, known simply to the Hip Hop world as MIMS, his upper Manhattan neighborhood located slightly above world-renowned Harlem USA is about to be stamped into Hip Hop..s consciousness with his brand of melodic, accessible flows and sincere lyricism. MIMS has caused quite a stir not only in his hometown but across the country. And with the debut album "Music Is My Savior", released by label Powerhouse EMI Capitol Records and his imprint American King Music, the entire Hip Hop community will find out what Washington Heights heads and his loyal and growing fan base have known for a while.

Customer Reviews

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Some savior!, October 31, 2007

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Nuisance "the rebel" (Miami) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Music Is My Savior (Audio CD)

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 covers"
Chorus 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 Houston"
Cop 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.

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Get off the radio!, April 23, 2007

A Kid's Review

This review is from: Music Is My Savior (Audio CD)

Wow when I heard "This is why I'm hot" I thought the lyrics were written by a 1st grader. This is why I'm hot. I'm hot cuz u not. Rinse and repeat. WTF? This is the kind witty lyricism that's killing rap. Repetitive lyrics and beats. "This is why I'm hot" WORST SONG OF THE YEAR. 2006-2007 will go down in infamy as the years rap officially died. Welcome the new school of whack rappers taking over Da game: MIMS, Jibbs, Young Joc, Franchise Boyz, D-4-L, UNK, Baby Boy da Prince. Worst music I've ever heard!

7 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Not Quite "Hot" Yet MIMS, But There is Some Potential In There, March 30, 2007

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Michael Brent Faulkner, Jr. "Brent Faulkner" (Kentucky) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Music Is My Savior (Audio CD)

MIMS isn't the next Jay-Z or Nas by any means; he lacks the character of better, more seasoned MCs.However, MUSIC IS MY SAVIOR does show that if you can look past its flaw, MIMS has some potential. Unfortunate for MIMS, rap may be suffering to too great a degree that him and Rich Boy (two rap debut acts of 2007), maybe too little too late. However, with the ubiquitous airplay of "This Is Why I'm Hot", MIMS may stand a chance to raise rap sales, though the numbers are questionable.

After an appropriate enough intro (other than the rediculous rhyme MIMS cooks up), "It's Alright" opens the album up pretty well. It isn't "stellar" by any means, but it is pretty good. The track is pretty well produced, though it does have the slightest bit of a generic feel. MIMS as an MC isn't incredibly agile and being from NY, he has major competition from the best MCs in the East Coast Game (Jay-Z, 50 Cent, etc...) All in all, "It's Alright" is alright. The track is followed by the Billboard #1 Hit "This Is Why I'm Hot". Sure, it is a fine enough track, but there have been stronger rap tracks that NEVER reached the summit on the Billboard Hot 100. I'm sure we all wished T.I. could've made it past his #3 peak with "What You Know" or Ludacris's second single "Runaway Love" featuring MJB could've inched up one more spot to the pinnacle. However, "This Is Why I'm Hot" is a good, if self-indulgent, banger for the clubs. Odd for me is the interpolation of "Jesus Walks" (Kanye) within one of the verses... I mean, did he really have to sample something that was most likely already sampled? But it isn't a bad track.

"Girlfriend's Favorite MC" features one of the most clumsy lyrics I've heard for a while: "I milk the cow, I'm a farmer". What a come-on. It isn't a horrible track, but you can tell it is going to be a bit awkward from the beginning. The production is notable enough, but it is a bit overproduced where "It's Alright" (for example) felt a bit underproduced, "cheap" sounding. The guest vocalist sounds good here, though again, the production doesn't feel balanced and the song is rather unmemorable. "Where I Belong" features a soul sample supporting MIMS's East coast vocals. The production is fine and the track isn't bad, but it is a bit bland. "Cop It" is a production must-hear with its Left-Hand piano bass hit and whacky synths surrounding banging drum programming. The track isn't the "second coming" but it is worth a couple of listens.

"Big Black Train" once again features experimental production work in which you can't quite place who the producer is. Whoever it is maybe receiving a couple of calls after people hear this track. Again, MIMS isn't really appealing as an MC, but the overall sound of this track is what saves and makes it. "They Don't Wanna Play" featuring Bun B and Seed
is a production masterpiece but a collaborative disaster that you know is going to fail from the start. "Like This" is repetitive and corny, but a better listen than a number of other tracks on this ultimately mediocre effort. "Just Like That" turns out to be a "machismo" heavy track asserting MIMS's bravado, which you as the listener to a "new" rap artist has to ask the question, 'why is MIMS setting himself as a veteran in the game?' At least the production and the hook are good.

"Without You" features LeToya (Luckett), who sounds a good as ever. The mellow edge of this track is appreciated after the hardcore-feel of "Just Like That". There have been much better rap/sung collaborations but the track is quite listenable and actually pretty lovely. "Superman" is a production showcase but it actually stands out as one the best and corniest tracks on MUSIC IS MY SAVIOR.

"This Is Why I'm Hot [Remix]" features Junior Reed and Baby Cham in one of the most manic remixes I've ever heard! It features an out-of-tune Junior Reed in what during the hook turns out to be a "bi-tonal" duet with MIMS. Hott Mess, is what it should've been entitled. "Doctor, Doctor" proves to be a better track in which MIMS's flow sounds a bit patterned after Jay-Z and actually comes over as first rate. The production work is hot with the sample and it is one of the few outright tracks I can say I was impressed with. "Don't Cry" featuring Purple Popcorn is certainly ambitious, if it just misses the mark of its target by just a bit (and not all that much, actually). The finale, "I Did You Wrong", ends the album up-tempo and on a pretty high note.

Overall, I didn't think MUSIC IS MY SAVIOR was terrible, but I did find it flawed in certain respects. Overall, it is solid, which is a plus. I recommend the following tracks: "It's Alright", "This Is Why I'm Hot", "Big Black Train", and "Doctor, Doctor". There are a couple of good secondary picks as well such as "Cop It", "Superman", "Don't Cry", and the finale, "I Did You Wrong". I don't think MIMS is quite "Hot" as he proclaims in the lead single from the album, but I do think that with more "study" within the rap game, he might actually be a truly serious, credible MC one day. 3 stars.