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Rockstar Mentality

Rockstar Mentality is the only studio album by American Southern rap rock group Shop Boyz. It was released on June 19, 2007, through Universal Republic Records. Production was handled by Jason Pittman, Jim Jonsin, Ron "Neff-U" Feemster, Cal Rip, David Banner, Richard Harris III, and The Original Dream Team, with Billy Hume serving as an additional producer on two tracks.

Rockstar Mentality
The cover features a skull wearing a black bandana with the initials 'SB' on it, with two electric guitars behind the skull. The group's name appears above the skull and the album title appears below it, colored in red and white respectively.
Studio album by
Shop Boyz
ReleasedJune 19, 2007 (2007-06-19)
Recorded2005–07
Genre
Length47:17
LabelUniversal Republic Records
Producer
Singles from Rockstar Mentality
  1. "Party Like a Rockstar"
    Released: April 10, 2007
  2. "They Like Me"
    Released: 2007

The album debuted at number 11 on the Billboard 200 with 52,000 copies sold in the U.S. in its first week.[1] Its lead single "Party Like a Rockstar" peaked at number two on the Billboard Hot 100, and the follow-up single "They Like Me" made it to number 98 on the same chart.

Cover of the second single from Rockstar Mentality, "They Like Me"

Critical reception

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Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusicStarStar[2]
Now1/5[3]
PopMatters4/10[4]
RapReviews5.5/10[5]
Rolling StoneStarStar[6]

AllMusic's Marisa Brown felt the album lacked "creative spontaneity" when compared to similar rap rock acts like Linkin Park and Outkast, criticizing the "formulaic and contrived" tracks for the rappers' unremarkable verses and the repetitive "singsongy hooks", concluding that: "Shop Boyz and their producers are looking for that grit and pomp that attract audiences to rock music (and rock stars), but instead they end up with a boy band version of it, which is OK, if that's what you're looking for."[2] Jason Richards of NOW critiqued about the group's "hood rock" style using "typical Roland 808 beats with electric guitars geared toward the ringtone market", concluding with: "They try to make up for their hot garbage rhymes with as many repetitive hooks as possible. This album killed a piece of my soul."[3] Susan Kim of RapReviews was critical of the various mediocre tracks with comparable production and elementary lyrics, but commended the group for experimenting with their "hood rock" sound on "Rollin'", "Baby Girl", the title track and "They Like Me". She critiqued that the record is "neither "hood" nor "rock." It has become a disarrangement of sound that is difficult to categorize, as the less than substantial incorporation of electric guitars cannot constitute the music as rock."[5] Quentin B Huff of PopMatters felt the tracks overall were "slightly more comfortable in their rock nods" than their hip-hop predecessors, concluding that: "Whether all this rock stuff is novelty or not, time will tell, as we can rest assured that the monstrous popularity of "Party Like a Rockstar" will likely follow the crew henceforth. That's the nature of the business."[4]

Track listing

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No.TitleWriter(s)Producer(s)Length
1."Party Like a Rockstar"
  • Demetrius Hardin
  • Rasheed Hightower
  • Richard Stephens
  • Brian Ward
  • Jason C. Pittman
Pit4:13
2."Bowen Homes"
  • Hardin
  • Hightower
  • Stephens
  • Ward
  • Richard Harris III
Fire4:37
3."Baby Girl"
Jim Jonsin2:53
4."They Like Me"
David Banner3:16
5."Next to Me"
  • Hardin
  • Hightower
  • Stephens
  • Ward
  • Michael D. Hartnett
  • Pittman
Pit4:10
6."Rollin'"
  • Hardin
  • Hightower
  • Stephens
  • Ward
  • William Whedbee
  • Pittman
  • Pit
  • Billy Hume (add.)
3:48
7."Rockstar Mentality"
NEFF-U3:25
8."Flexin'"
  • Hardin
  • Hightower
  • Stephens
  • Ward
  • Scheffer
Jim Jonsin3:22
9."Totally Dude"
  • Hardin
  • Hightower
  • Stephens
  • Ward
  • Darrin Williams
  • Lynell Boone
  • Michael Macon
  • Turinida Sylvester
The Original Dream Team4:13
10."Showin' Me Love"
  • Hardin
  • Hightower
  • Stephens
  • Ward
  • Feemster
NEFF-U2:54
11."My Car"
  • Hardin
  • Hightower
  • Stephens
  • Ward
  • Pittman
Pit3:25
12."Sumthin' to Talk 'Bout"
  • Hardin
  • Hightower
  • Stephens
  • Ward
  • Pittman
Pit3:36
13."World on Fire"
  • Hardin
  • Hightower
  • Stephens
  • Ward
  • Calvin Miller
  • Cal Rip
  • Billy Hume (add.)
3:25
Total length:47:17
Bonus track
No.TitleLength
14."Paper (M-O-N-E-Y)"3:19
Sample credits

Personnel

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Charts

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Weekly charts

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References

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  1. ↑ Hasty, Katie (June 27, 2007). "Bon Jovi Scores First No. 1 Album Since 1988". Billboard. Archived from the original on November 29, 2021. Retrieved April 16, 2023.
  2. 1 2 Brown, Marisa. "Shop Boyz - Rockstar Mentality". AllMusic. Archived from the original on February 21, 2014. Retrieved April 16, 2023.
  3. 1 2 Richards, Jason (July 12, 2007). "SHOP BOYZ". NOW. Archived from the original on April 16, 2023. Retrieved April 16, 2023.
  4. 1 2 Huff, Quentin B (August 7, 2007). "Shop Boyz: Rockstar Mentality". PopMatters. Archived from the original on April 16, 2023. Retrieved April 16, 2023.
  5. 1 2 Kim, Susan 'susiQ' (July 31, 2007). "Shop Boyz :: Rockstar Mentality". RapReviews. Archived from the original on April 16, 2023. Retrieved April 16, 2023.
  6. ↑ Sheffield, Rob (June 11, 2007). "Rockstar Mentality : Shop Boyz : Review". Rolling Stone. Archived from the original on February 21, 2009. Retrieved February 21, 2009 – via Wayback Machine.
  7. ↑ "Shop Boyz, TLP". Billboard. Retrieved October 3, 2020.
  8. ↑ "Shop Boyz, BLP". Billboard. Retrieved October 3, 2020.
  9. ↑ "Shop Boyz, RLP". Billboard. Retrieved October 3, 2020.
  10. ↑ "Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums – Year-End 2007". Billboard. Archived from the original on October 30, 2017. Retrieved October 3, 2020.
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