In June 2003, following several revamps and numerous delays, J Records released Monica's fourth studio album "After the Storm" in the United States. It debuted at number one on the US "Billboard" 200, her first album to do so, and produced three singles that attained "Billboard" chart success, including chart topper "So Gone". The following year, she announced that she was expecting her first child. While most of her fifth album was not recorded before the birth of her son Rocko in May 2005, the singer met several producers and songwriters in preparation of her album during her pregnancy, involving Missy Elliott and her regular co-producers Cainon Lamb and Craig Brockman as well as Bryan Michael Cox and Jermaine Dupri, with Dupri again taking over executive production duties alongside Monica after Elliott had replaced him in this position on "After the Storm" following the retooling of original album "All Eyez on Me" (2002).