Clothes Drop

Clothes Drop is the seventh studio album released by Jamaican singer Shaggy. It was released by Geffen Records on September 2, 2005. When the album was released promotionally in 2004, it was debated that the album would not be commercially released. However, over a year later, the album was officially released.

Clothes Drop
Studio album by Shaggy
Released	September 2, 2005
Length	61:29
Label	Geffen
Producer	Armando Colon Sly Dunbar Michael Fletcher Anthony Kelly Tony "CD" Kelly Robert Livingston Shaun Pizzonia Robbie Shakespeare Dwayne Shippy Soulshock & Karlin Scott Storch will.i.am ZLink
Shaggy chronology
Lucky Day (2002) Clothes Drop (2005) Intoxication (2007)
Singles from Clothes Drop
"Wild 2Nite" Released: September 5, 2005 "Ultimatum" Released: 2005

Critical reception

Professional ratings

Aggregate scores
Source	Rating
Metacritic	(61/100)[1]
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[2]
Billboard	(favorable)[3]
Blender	[4]
Entertainment Weekly	C−[5]
The Guardian	[6]
Rolling Stone	[7]
Vibe	[8]

Clothes Drop garnered positive reviews from music critics who praised the diverse avenues of dancehall and pop music the tracks go through. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received an average score of 61, based on 7 reviews.^[1]

Rob Kenner of Vibe gave praise to Shaggy's dynamic vocal delivery and his taste for old-school dancehall in romantic dance tracks and depth-filled social tunes, saying that "Clothesdrop seamlessly blends Shaggy's sharpest pop sensibilities with his (much slept-on) roughneck pedigree."^[8] Rolling Stone's Christian Hoard felt the album carried an amalgam of tracks ranging from hip-hop-styled and club-oriented to mind-numbingly generic and a bit preachy, saying that "[T]he entire album has a mixed-bag feel, but "Would You Be" shows that his gift for winsome melody and R&B clarity is mostly intact."^[7] Dorian Lynskey of The Guardian said that "Clothes Drop is a typically canny and diverse selection: bona fide dancehall cuts interspersed with hooky pop."^[6] Entertainment Weekly's David Browne said that despite tracks like "Repent" that better display his talents, he found Shaggy trying to regain his hit-making glory days with middling results, concluding that "Maybe he should lose the monotonous, low-rent beats and banal-hook girls (and boys)."^[5] Writing for Blender, Jon Caramanica heavily criticized Shaggy for attempting to showcase his dancehall credentials with a grating voice and without a featured artist to work lyrics off like Rikrok, saying that "Instead, there’s a Black Eyed Pea (“Shut Up and Dance”), a Pussycat Doll (“Supa Hypnotic”) and the palpable sweat of a man trying to figure out what he’s good at, a decade too late."^[4]

Track listing

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Producer(s)	Length
1.	"Clothes Drop"	Orville Burrell Ricardo Ducent Sly Dunbar Robbie Lyn Robbie Shakespeare	Dunbar Shakespeare ZLink	4:04
2.	"Ready fi di Ride"	Burrell Ducent Maurice Gregory Anthony Kelly	Kelly	3:34
3.	"Broadway"	Burrell Ducent Anthony Hawthorne Barrington Levy Dwayne Shippy	Shippy	2:35
4.	"Wild 2nite" (featuring Olivia)	Burrell Armando Colon Olivia Longott	Colon Shaun "Sting Int'l" Pizzonia	3:29
5.	"Back in the Days" (featuring Rayvon)	Burrell Ducent Michael Fletcher	Fletcher	4:00
6.	"Supa Hypnotic" (featuring Nicole Scherzinger)	Burrell Alexander Cantrall Kenneth Karlin Lindy Robbins Carsten Schack	Soulshock & Karlin	3:35
7.	"Would You Be" (featuring Brian "Gold" Thompson)	Burrell Christopher Birch Colon Ducent Pizzonia K.B. Robinson Thompson	Colon Pizzonia	4:16
8.	"Stand Up" (featuring Natasha Watkins)	Burrell Birch Ducent Derrick Harriott Robert Livingston	Livingston	3:34
9.	"Repent"	Burrell Ducent Gregory Tony "CD" Kelly Pizzonia	Kelly	3:42
10.	"Luv Me Up"	Burrell Ducent Gregory Kelly Pizzonia	Kelly	3:31
11.	"Ahead in Life"	Burrell Colon Ducent Kelly	Colon	3:16
12.	"Ultimatum"	Burrell Colon Ducent Pizzonia	Pizzonia Colon	3:33
13.	"Shut Up & Dance" (featuring will.i.am)	William Adams Adrian Belew Junior Curtis Chris Frantz Pizzonia Steven Stanley Laura Weymouth	will.i.am	3:24
14.	"Don't Ask Her That" (featuring Nicole Scherzinger)	Burrell Ducent Scott Storch	Storch Thom Panunzio[a]	4:25
15.	"Road Block" (featuring Rikrok)	Burrell Ducent Quentin Harris Pizzonia	Pizzonia	3:32
16.	"Gone with Angels"	Burrell Colon Ducent Pizzonia	Pizzonia Fletcher	4:05
17.	"Letter to My Kids"	Burrell Ducent Pizzonia	Pizzonia Fletcher	2:54

Japanese bonus track

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Producer(s)	Length
18.	"Hold Me"	Burrell Ducent Pizzonia	Pizzonia	3:03

UK bonus tracks^[9]

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Producer(s)	Length
18.	"Goodie Goodie""	Burrell Ducent Pizzonia	Pizzonia	3:20
19.	"Sexy Gyal Whind"	Burrell Ducent Pizzonia	Pizzonia	3:03

Notes

• ^{^[a]} signifies additional producer

Sample credits

• "Broadway" contains a sample of "Broader than Broadway" as written by Barrington Levy.
• "Stand Up" contains a sample of "Stop That Man" as written by Derrick Harriott.
• "Shut Up & Dance" contains elements of "Genius of Love" as written by Tom Tom Club.

Credits and personnel

Credits lifted from the liner notes of Clothes Drop.^[10]

C. Duck Anderson – Background Vocals Alex Cantrall – Producer, Musician Chico Chin – Musician Armando Colon – Producer, Engineer, Musician Heather Cummings – Background Vocals J. Curtis – Guitar Sly Dunbar – Producer, Musician Cliff Feiman – Production Coordination Neal Ferrazzani – Assistant Michael Fletcher – Producer, Musician Chris Gehringer – Mastering Brian Gold – Background Vocals Tony Gold – Background Vocals Tony Green – Musician Maurice Gregory – Musician Damion Hall – Engineer Nellee Hooper – Vocal Producer

Kameron Houff – Engineer A. Kelly – Musician Tony Kelly – Producer, Engineer, Musician, Revision Martin Kierszenbaum – Keyboards, A&R Robert Livingston – Producer, Overdubs, Executive Producer Robert Lyn – Musician Thom Panunzio – Producer, Mixing Shaun "Sting Int'l" Pizzonia – Producer, Engineer, Overdubs, Executive Producer, Mixing, Musician Claude "Weakhand" Reynolds – Mixing J. Peter Robinson – Art Direction Robbie Shakespeare – Producer, Musician Fabian Smith – Keyboard Overdubs Soulshock – Producer, Engineer, Musician Scott Storch – Producer Lincoln Thomas – Guitar Gita Williams – Product Manager

Charts

Weekly chart performance for Clothes Drop

Chart (2005)	Peak position
Austrian Albums (Ö3 Austria)[11]	61
French Albums (SNEP)[12]	70
German Albums (Offizielle Top 100)[13]	62
Swiss Albums (Schweizer Hitparade)[14]	31
US Reggae Albums (Billboard)[15]	2
US Billboard 200[16]	144