Ari Lennox

Courtney Shanade Salter (born March 26 1991) is better known under her real title Ari Lennox is an American singer and songwriter from Washington, D.C. She is the first female artist associated with J. Cole's record label Dreamville Records. Her first EP, Pho was released on the 21st of October, 2016 and was released through Dreamville Records. She began to gain fame. Shea Butter Baby is her debut album. The album was released in May 2019. Ari Lennox has released her music online since 2012, with the release of her debut mixtape "Five Finger Discount" and her EP Ariography. In 2014, she continued to upload her music via the internet including her independently release single Bound. The song Sweat it included on Omen's Elephant Eyes album which dropped on July 21, 2015. J. Cole asked her to join him in collaboration for Rihanna's reference. In the following season, the music was circulating around Dreamville. She was officially signed to Dreamville Records on 8 December. On the album Revenge of the Dreamers II, she appeared on the song Backseat along with Cozz. In October 21st, 2016, her debut EP was released under the name Pho. Ari Lennox was a guest on J. Cole's Change and also performed as part of her own 4 Your Eyez Only Tour as opening performance. In 2018, she was able to be a guest on two of her songs along with labelmates EarthGang in Nothing but the Best and Bas on Icarus. Ari Lennox dropped her first track Whipped Cream from Shea Butter Baby on July 16th. The music video was released, followed by a music video September. Then on November 9 she dropped two more singles, 40 Shades of Choke as well as Grampa. On November 13, she released two additional singles entitled The No One and Pdigree. Shea Butter Baby. Shea Butter Baby then made appearances in the Creed II album soundtrack alongside Cole. The singer released the single as a way to promote her debut titled Creed II on 26 February 2019. The music video premiered on 20 February 2019 in conjunction with the song. Within the first period of a week, the video had more than 3 million views. In December 2018 she was a supporting act on The From East Atlanta With Love Tour together with 6LACK.