Music Is My Savior is the debut studio album by American rapper Mims, released on March 27, 2007 by Capitol Records and Mims’ American King Music imprint. The album was supported by the singles "This Is Why I'm Hot" and "Like This", the former of which reached the peak of the US Billboard Hot 100 chart.

Background

Guests

The album features guest appearances by southern rapper Bun B, underground rapper Bad Seed, LeToya Luckett, Cham, reggae artist Junior Reid, and R&B singer J. Holiday. Capitol Records labelmate Rasheeda provides additional vocals on the song, "Like This."

Production

Music Is My Savior features production from Blackout Movement, Twizz & D. Baker, Ty Fyffe, and The Runners. The bulk of the album was produced by Blackout Movement. Mims has mentioned numerous times that he feels that his project benefited greatly from his extensive work with the Blackout Movement. He says that he likes them because they give a different sound to his music.

Singles

Singles from Music Is My Savior included the hit single "This Is Why I'm Hot," "Like This" and "Just Like That." The song "Cop It" was featured in the EA Sports game Madden 08, but was not released as a single. A snippet of the song 'Superman' was used in Britain's Got Talent 2009 winners Diversity (dance troupe)'s routine.

Reception

Critical

The album so far has a score of 64 out of 100 from Metacritic based on "generally favorable reviews". Rolling Stone gave it three out of five stars, claiming "Mims can't carry a whole album." Allmusic gave the album three and a half stars out of five. It was reviewed more negatively by the Los Angeles Times, who gave the album one and a half stars out of four.

Commercial

The album debuted at #4 on the Billboard 200 with 78,000 copies sold in the first week released.

Track listing

Charts

Weekly charts

Year-end charts