R&B singer Okay. Michelle made a bold choice to go away Love & Hip Hop Atlanta just two seasons after discovering popularity on the VH1 reality show, which had also turned self-proclaimed Puerto Rican Princess Joseline Hernandez into a household name. The show helped K land a new file deal and a growing collection of fanatics, who became aware of her via LHHATL.
But after Season 2, the “Hard To Do” hitmaker, who once feuded with singer Keyshia Cole, made up our minds to walk away in order to focus her complete attention on music. With a fresh group at the back of her, and a string of charting singles she released while on LHHATL, K. Michelle was once convinced that she may just succeed in bigger heights if she didn’t spend half of her yr filming for fact TV.
Just 3 months after saying her departure, the mother of one dropped her debut studio album Rebellious Soul in August 2013, promoting 123,000 copies in its first week and peaking at No. 2 on the Billboard Hot 200. The body of work also incorporated the hits “V.S.O.P” and “Can’t Raise A Man.”
Little she Ok. Michelle know that this was most effective the beginning of her newfound fame. Here’s the lowdown…
Ok. Michelle Departed Love & Hip Hop For Her Music Career
While Love & Hip Hop Atlanta was very a lot nonetheless in its high after Ok. Michelle left on the finish of Season 2, after the success of her single “V.SO.P.” she knew that she couldn’t juggle reality TV with her music career.
From the promotional work to touring, recording, and often selling herself, all of these items have been going to devour up her time from taking pictures scenes with the forged of LHHATL. At the top of the day, the display helped Okay. Michelle in finding her voice, a fanbase, and the give a boost to from people who believed in her enough to buy her songs.
The “Ain’t You” vocalist instructed ABC News in 2013, "If I know something is unhealthy for me why keep doing it. I'm not saying that I'm not dealing with other ventures with VH1 and Mona [Scott Young, the creator]. ...You might see me in Love & Hip Hop New York. You never know.”
The 39-year-old also claimed that several of her cast members on the VH1 show were jealous of her rising popularity, which ultimately made her decision to leave that much easier.
Supposedly, by Season 2, the environment had turned rather toxic and since LHHATL has become such a nationwide hit in the United States, every cast member wanted the attention — and a revised salary.
She added, ”I think it's a lot of jealousy between my cast members, and they can't say it's not. It’s not my fault that God didn't give them no talent. That's not my fault that you didn't take your platform and do something else with it."
After the success of Rebel Heart, K. Michelle dropped her sophomore album Anybody Wanna Buy a Heart? in December 2014, spanning a bunch of hits similar to “Maybe I Should Call,” “Love ‘Em All,” and the unforgettable “Hard To Do.”
The venture once once more fared well on the charts with 87,000 copies offered in its first week and peaking at No. 6 at the Billboard Hot 200. A slight decline from her processor’s first-week numbers and charting place, yet nonetheless cast, nevertheless.
That similar yr, Okay. Michelle made a few appearances on Love & Hip Hop: New York, however she was using the platform more or less to promote her track than to have interaction in fights and arguments, which is what the program is famously recognized for.
Love & Hip Hop executive producer Mona-Scott Young additionally announced that year that K. Michelle would entrance her very own truth display, titled Okay. Michelle: My Life, which spanned three seasons between 2014 and 2017.
In 2016, she released her third album More Issues Than Vogue, adopted via 2017’s Kimberly: The People I Used to Know, and 2020’s All Monsters Are Human.
All three initiatives struggled at charming lovers’ attention, and subsequently landed deficient placements on the charts whilst her gross sales had also taken an enormous stoop.
The Memphis local later signed on for Love & Hip Hop: Hollywood in 2018 prior to announcing that her 6th studio album can be country-themed.
In September 2020, it was claimed that K. Michelle had secured a song penned by country icon Dolly Parton for the approaching report, having already shared she’d been working with Billy Ray Cyrus and Eric Paslay for the new song she’s set to proportion with lovers.
"Dreams do come true. Im losing my mind right now! I received a record that @dollyparton wrote for me! My lord i’m floored and honored. Can’t wait for you guys to hear it!!!!!!!” K. Michelle tweeted.
K. Michelle has worked with a string of artists in the industry over the years including Rick Ross, Chris Brown, and Trina, to name a few.
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