Ari Lennox
Courtney Shanade Salter (born March 26 1991) more popularly known as her professional name Ari Lennox is an American singer and songwriter who hails from Washington, D.C. She is the first female artist to be affiliated with J. Cole's label Dreamville Records. In October 2016 Ari Lennox debuted her Pho EP. The EP was where she gained recognition. Shea Butter Baby is her debut album. It was released in May of 2019. Ari Lennox has uploaded her music on the internet since 2012 with her debut mixtape "Five Finger Discount" and her EP Ariography. Ari Lennox continued to upload her tracks online through 2014, which included the self-released single Bound. The song Sweat it part of Omen's Elephant Eyes album, which was released on July 21st, 2015. J. Cole, who was part of the Dreamville crew back then, wanted to have her work on Rihanna references. In December 2008, it was announced that Rihanna was hired by Dreamville Records. She was featured on the joint album Revenge of the Dreamers II in the track Backseat featuring Cozz. In October 21st, 2016 the debut EP of Ari Lennox was released under the name Pho. Ari Lennox performed the song Change by J. Cole as well as opening The 4 Your Eyez Only Tour 2017 in which she was accompanied by EarthGang. She also appeared in 2018 on two songs alongside her label-mates EarthGang for Nothing but the Best. And Bas on Icarus. Ari Lennox's debut album Shea Butter Baby was released on 16 July 2018. The debut single, called Whipped Cream The album's first single, Whipped Cream came out September 5, 2018 with the music video. On November 9 she dropped two more singles, forty Shades of Choke as well as Grampa. The 13th of November, she came out with two additional singles, One and Pedigree. One or Pedigree. Shea Butter Baby was released in her debut single February 26, 2019 for her album Creed II. Shea Butter Baby performed with Cole on her Creed II sound track on November 16. This track, which was made available with a video posted on YouTube on February 20, 2019, has been watched over 3 million times within the first 7 days. She was one of the support acts for 6LACK during their From East Atlanta With Love Tour during December 2018.
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