As the group moved into the rear view window, tobyMac boldly stepped out on his own with his solo debut, Momentum. Toby said "Momentum really started with my wife and I sitting down and praying, seeing if I was supposed to make a record on my own. I wasn't feeling all that creative at the end of dc talk's Supernatural tour, so we prayed a real specific prayer. Once I felt I was supposed to do this, then we began praying for creativity. All of a sudden, there was this outpouring. With Momentum, I blinked and suddenly had 25 or 30 song ideas. Basically a blank canvas with limitless colors."

The first fruit of tobyMac's solo work, the title song from the motion picture Extreme Days, spent a record ten weeks at the top of the CCM Update Rock charts. However, the track wasn't the hip-hop opus many were expecting to be tobyMac's initial single. Instead it was a slamming, rap core track, which he says shouldn't surprise long time fans. "A lot of times people forget that we have had dirty, distorted guitars on all of dc talk's records. A couple other songs on Momentum that fall in that vein are "Let's Get This Party Started" and "Yours." tobyMac adds, "I've been merging guitars, beats and rhymes since 1989. Combining those things is like a slice of heaven to me." A full palette of hip-hop, rap, rock, pop and R&B influences are brought together on Momentum. tobyMac explains. "I felt a desire to get back to a hip-hop base: call and response, crowd and artist interaction, the community feeling that hip-hop engenders. There are R&B based songs like "Wondering Why" and "Somebody's Watching." There's a couple of hip-hop, 'chanty' kind of songs and some funk-based songs like "J Train" as well as some laid back, acoustic rap like "Do You Know." On "J Train," tobyMac finally got to work with longtime friend, Kirk Franklin. "Kirk and I have been trying to get together on a song for several years now," states tobyMac. "Finally, it happened. We share a love for crushing walls and stereotypes that keep gospel music from interfacing with contemporary Christian music, black from white, God music from the mainstream."

Earning rave reviews from Billboard to CCM Magazine, the 2001 album debuted atop the Billboard Heatseekers chart, sold over 400,000 copies, and landed two number one singles, "Extreme Days" and "Somebody's Watching." The DC born artist went on to win several Dove Awards, including Producer of the Year, and two BMI honors as Christian Songwriter of the Year. Toby McKeehan's solo music differs from dc Talk's rock-based musical style, leaning toward a more urban, hip-hop/rap sound. His sound is much more reminiscent of what was heard when dc Talk originally started out, on the albums "DC TALK", "Nu Thang", and "Free At Last", their most widely known album besides "Jesus Freak".

McKeehan composed and recorded the song "Extreme Days" for the 2001 Truth Builder Productions film Extreme Days. The song was subsequently featured on the 2001 debut tobyMac album Momentum and was used in the movie, Hangman's Curse, based on the popular book by Frank Peretti. McKeehan also composed and performed the song "New World" for the album Music Inspired by the Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. His song "The Slam" was featured in advertisements for the films Transporter 2 and The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift, as well as advertisements for the television show Prison Break . The song was also featured in car commercials, men's NCAA clips, NBA Finals (Miami Heat, 2006), Toby's songs "Atmosphere" and "Burn For You" have also been used in commercials. At some point in his life, his parents divorced, partly influencing the song "Stories (Down to the Bottom)".

Toby and his wife Amanda now have five children: Truett, Moses, Marlee, Leo, and Judah. Moses and Marlee were adopted in 2002. Leo was born in 2004. Judah was born in 2006. Truett appears on the albums "Momentum," "Welcome to Diverse City," and "Renovating Diverse City" as emerging rap artist "Tru-Dog."

Toby is currently working on a new 2007 album called "Portable Sounds" with a February 20 2007 release date.

Tobymac's life story is... as they say.... to be continued!