Eliot Sumner 2014, Sumner said that her music would be released under the birth name, Eliot Sumner. Later that year, she released the EP "Information", and in 2016 the full album "Information" appeared. Sumner's contributions to other musicians' albums include vocals for the song "End of the Road" by Sway and the single "Splash" by Sub Focus. She sang a cover version of the Radiohead song "Creep" with Clint Mansell for the soundtrack to the movie "Filth" (2013). She appeared briefly in the films "Me Without You" (2001) and "Stardust" (2007). Sumner is the daughter of musician Sting and actress Trudie Styler.
U Should've Known Better producers, which included Dallas Austin, production team Soulshock & Karlin, Bryan Michael Cox, and Rodney Jerkins and his Darkchild crew. Though she "had never thought about writing much" by then, her producers encouraged the singer to intensify her work on the "All Eyez on Me" album and to write and contribute own lyrics and ideas to the songs, one of which was the ballad "U Should've Known Better." Monica penned the song along with Harold Lilly and longtime contributor Jermaine Dupri, while production on the track was helmed by Dupri and Bryan Michael Cox. "U Should've Known Better" was mixed