Ari Lennox
Courtney Shanade Salter, born March 26, 1991, also known professionally as Ari Lennox, hails from Washington, D.C. and is the first female artist to be signed with J. Cole's Dreamville Records label. Her first EP, Pho which was released on 21 October 2016 was released on Dreamville Records. The singer began to earn recognition. Shea Butter Baby her debut studio release was May 7th 2019. Ari Lennox first released her music on the internet in 2012. She released her debut album Ariography and debut mixtape in 2013, five Finger Discount. In 2014, she released more music via the Internet including Bound. On July 21st, the 21st of July in 2015 Omen included her in Elephant Eyes song"Sweat It Out. J. Cole, who was part of the Dreamville crew back then was interested in having her create Rihanna references. The announcement of her decision to sign with Dreamville Records was made on December 8th. Backseat was the result of her participation to The Revenge of the Dreamers II album. In October of 2016 she dropped her debut EP, Pho. Ari Lennox then appeared as the opening performance on behalf of J. Cole on his single Change in 2017 and also was a part of the 4 Your Eyez Only Tour. In 2018, she went on to be a guest on two songs with her labelmates EarthGang and EarthGang on Nothing but the Best and Bas on Icarus. Ari Lennox debuted her first single from Shea Butter Baby, Whipped Cream on the 16th of July in 2018. The music video later released in September. The second single she released was, Grampa on November 9. On the 13th of November, two brand new singles, titled No One and pedigree. Then she appeared in the Creed II soundtrack with Cole on a track titled Shea Butter Baby on November 16 and released as a single in February, 2019 for her debut album of the same name. The music video premiered 20 February 2019 in order to go along with the track. Within one period of a week, the video had more than 3 million views. In December of 2018, she was part of The From East Atlanta With Love Tour featuring 6LACK.






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