Clothes Drop

Critical reception

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.

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." Christian Hoard of Rolling Stone found the album had 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." Dorian Lynskey of The Guardian said that "Clothes Drop is a typically canny and diverse selection: bona fide dancehall cuts interspersed with hooky pop." 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)." Jon Caramanica of Blender 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."

Track listing

1. "Clothes Drop" (Burrell, Ducent, Dunbar, Lyn, Robbie Shakespeare) – 4:04
2. "Ready fi di Ride" (Burrell, Ducent, Gregory, Kelly) – 3:34
3. "Broadway" (Burrell, Ducent, Hawthorne, Levy, Shippy) – 2:35
4. "Wild 2nite" (Burrell, Colon, Longot) (featuring Olivia) – 3:29
5. "Back in the Days" (Burrell, Ducent, Fletcher) (featuring Rayvon) – 4:00
6. "Supa Hypnotic" (Burrell, Cantrall, Karlin, Robbins, Schack) (featuring Nicole Scherzinger) – 3:35
7. "Would You Be" (Birch, Burrell, Colon, Ducent, Pizzonia, Robinson, Thompson) (featuring Brian Thompson) – 4:16
8. "Stand Up" (Birch, Burrell, Ducent, Harriot, Livingston) – 3:34
9. "Repent" (Burrell, Ducent, Gregory, Kelly, Pizzonia) – 3:42
10. "Luv Me Up" (Burrell, Ducent, Gregory, Kelly, Pizzonia) – 3:31
11. "Ahead in Life" (Burrell, Colon, Ducent, Kelly) – 3:16
12. "Ultimatum" (Burrell, Colon, Ducent, Pizzonia) (featuring Na'sha) – 3:33
13. "Shut Up & Dance" (Adams, Belew, Curtis, Frantz, Pizzonia, Stanley, Weymouth) (featuring will.i.am) – 3:24
14. "Don't Ask Her That" (Burrell, Ducent, Storch) (featuring Nicole Scherzinger) – 4:25
15. "Road Block" (Burrell, Ducent, Harris, Pizzonia) (featuring Rikrok) – 3:32
16. "Gone With Angels" (Burrell, Colon, Ducent, Pizzonia) – 4:05
17. "Letter to My Kids" (Burrell, Ducent, Pizzonia) – 2:54

Japanese Bonus Track

18. "Hold Me" (Burrell, Ducent, Pizzonia) – 3:03

UK Bonus Tracks

18. "Goodie Goodie" (Burrell, Ducent, Pizzonia) - 3:20 19. "Sexy Gyal Whind" (Burrell, Ducent, Pizzonia) - 3:03

Personnel

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