Music Love's debut studio album,
Down to Earth, was released on 6 November 1990. It spawned the singles "Monie in the Middle" (a track dealing with a woman's right to determine what she wants out of a relationship) and "
It's a Shame (My Sister)" (which sampled
the (Detroit) Spinners'
"It's a Shame", written for the band by the US musician
Stevie Wonder). It also featured house-music vocalist and then-labelmate
Ultra Naté. The album reached No. 26 on the
Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart. Love also appears on the song titled "United" from
Inner City's third album,
Praise, and raps a
response verse from the woman's perspective on a 1989 remix of the
Fine Young Cannibals hit, "
She Drives Me Crazy". Love was featured on the LA Reid & Babyface remix of
Whitney Houston's R&B hit "
My Name Is Not Susan" in 1991, and appeared in the music video alongside Houston. Love's 1992 single "Full-Term Love", from the
Class Act movie
soundtrack, reached No. 7 on the
Hot Hip-Hop Singles chart. Love collaborated with
Marley Marl on her second album,
In a Word or 2 (1993), which featured the
Prince-produced single "Born To B.R.E.E.D." (which reached No. 1 on the
Hot Dance Music chart and No. 7 on the Hot Rap Singles chart), as well as a re-release of "Full-Term Love". Love's departure from WPHI followed soon after her December 2006 interview with
Young Jeezy, where the two argued over whether
hip hop is dead. Love is also an official MySpace.com
DJ, according to her
Myspace page. She has a radio show on
XM Satellite Radio called
Ladies First Radio with Monie Love. It airs Thursdays 6 PM ET and Sundays 8 PM ET. In 2015, Love became a DJ on Philadelphia's
Boom 107.9, hosting a morning show from 6 am to 10 am. In 2016, Love co-hosted with
Ed Lover on the Ed Lover Morning Show for "Boom 92" KROI in Houston, Texas. In 2018, Monie Love did the workday and lunch break from 10am-3pm on 106.7 WTLC in
Indianapolis, Indiana. In May 2019, she began hosting afternoons at "KISS 104.1"
WALR in
Atlanta. ==Personal life==