Ari Lennox

Courtney Shanade Salter, better known by her stage name of Ari Lennox, is an American artist and performer born in Washington, D.C., who was the first female to join J. Cole's Dreamville Records record label. Her debut EP Pho, released which was released on 21 October 2016 was released on Dreamville Records. She began to gain recognition. Shea Butter Baby her debut album was released on May 7, 2019. Ari Lennox uploaded her music to the internet in 2012 when she released Five Finger Discount mixtape and Ariography EP in 2013. In 2014, she released additional music on the internet including Bound. In 2015, she was featured in Omen's Elephant Eyes album on Sweat it out on July 21st. J. Cole was interested in her talent and wanted to use it together with Rihanna. The announcement that she would be signed by Dreamville Records was made on the 8th day of December. Backseat was a track she recorded with Cozz for the collaborative album Revenge of the Dreamers II. In October 21st, 2016 the debut EP of Ari Lennox was released titled Pho. Ari Lennox appeared in J. Cole's Change track, and performed on with the 4 Your Eyez Only Tour 2017. Also, she was featured on the songs Nothing but the Best by EarthGang as well as Icarus together with Bas the label's co-founders. Ari Lennox dropped her first track Whipped Cream off of Shea Butter Baby on July 16. The music video was released, followed by a music video September. On the 9th of November the singer released two more singles, titled 40 Shades of Choke (and Grampa). On November 13 two new singles called The No One and Pedigree. Shea Butter Baby was released in her debut single February 26, 2019, for her album Creed II. Shea Butter Baby performed alongside Cole as part of the Creed II sound track on the 16th of November. On February 20, 2019 a music video was released for the song. It already has more than 3 million views on YouTube in its initial week. In December 2018, she was part of her From East Atlanta With Love Tour, which featured 6LACK.