Knot left behind a daughter from a previous relationship, who Monica took into care after going into hiatus. In the following month, personal tribulations put a temporary halt on the album's production, when her friend and former boyfriend Jarvis "Knot" Weems committed suicide. In an interview with MTV News amid promotion for Oscar Mayer's Jingle Jam Talent Search contest in June 2000, Monica revealed that she was planning to start work on her third album throughout the summer season, with a first single to be released by October of the same year.
Abrams's prime time drama series Felicity and the theatrical film Boys and Girls and garnered a starring role in the MTV Films drama Love Song. During the hiatus, she tied up filming commitments on J. įollowing the release of her second album The Boy Is Mine (1998) and her contribution to " I've Got to Have It", a collaboration with Jermaine Dupri and rapper Nas, recorded for the soundtrack of the 2000 comedy film Big Momma's House, Monica took a hiatus from her recording career. As of November 2014, the album has sold 1,070,000 copies in the United States. After the Storm received generally mixed to positive reviews from music critics. It produced three singles that attained Billboard chart success, including chart topper " So Gone", and has been certified gold by the Recording Industry Association of America for shipments of over 500,000 copies in the United States. The album debuted at number one on the US Billboard 200 chart, Monica's first album to do so, and sold 186,000 copies in its first week. Created over a period of three years, in which Monica experienced personal struggles and its original version, All Eyez on Me, was delayed numerous times following the moderate success of single " All Eyez on Me" as well as the leak to Internet file-sharing services and heavy bootlegging after its Japan-wide release, Monica decided to scrap most of the album in favor of new material for which she consulted new collaborators such as Missy Elliott who would receive executive producer credit due to her predominant share of contributions on the album. It was first released on Jthrough J Records. After the Storm is the fourth studio album by American singer Monica.