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We are taking it back to the 90’s with today’s Flashback Friday video featuring “Don’t Take It Personal” by Miss Thang – Monica Arnold.

Monica Denise Arnold, better known to fans as Monica, hit the national music stage in 1991 at the age of 11 after being discovered by Atlanta producer Dallas Austin. at the Center Stage auditorium in Atlanta performing Whitney Houston 1986’s “Greatest Love of All“. Amazed by her voice, Dallas offered her a record deal with his Arista-distributed label Rowdy Records and immediately hired rapper and actress Queen Latifah as Monica’s first manager. Shortly afterwards Dallas and then staff producers Tim & Bob entered the studio with Arnold to start writing and producing her debut Miss Thang.[8] After two years of recording her debut album, co-produced by Daryl Simmons and Soulshock & Karlin, was released to mixed reviews on July 18, 1995, scored number 36 on the U.S. Billboard 200 and number seven on the Top R&B Albums chart. It eventually sold over three million copies domestically and produced three top ten singles. Debut single “Don’t Take It Personal (Just One of Dem Days)” and second single “Before You Walk out of My Life“/”Like This and Like That“, a double-A-single, both entered the top ten of the official Billboard Hot 100 and simultaneously became platinum-certified number-one hits on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart, making Monica the youngest artist ever to have two consecutive chart-topping hits on latter chart. The album subsequently won Monica a Billboard Music Award, also earning her an American Music Award nomination in the category Favorite Soul/R&B New Artist.

Her career continued with the 1998 release of “The Boy Is Mine,” 2003 USA release of “After the Storm,” and 2006 release “The Makings of Me.”  Monica’s current album, “Still Standing,” was certified gold earlier this week.

Check out a few other Monica classics on the My Mini Concert page.