Ari Lennox

Courtney Shanade Salter, better known by her stage name of Ari Lennox, is an American artist and performer from Washington, D.C., who was the first female to be signed to J. Cole's Dreamville Records record label. Her debut EP Pho, released on October 21 2016, was released through Dreamville Records. Her career began to grow in notoriety. Shea Butter Baby is her debut album. It was released on May 19, 2019. Ari Lennox posted her music online in 2012, when she dropped her five Finger Discount mixtape and Ariography EP in 2013. In 2014 she continued to release her music on the internet, including her self release single Bound. The song was included in Omen's Elephant Eyes and in Sweat It Out July 21st the 21st of July, 2015. J. Cole asked her to work with him on Rihanna's reference. Then, later in the year, her music circulated throughout Dreamville. On December 8 it was announced that she was contracted to Dreamville Records. Backseat is a track that she recorded with Cozz in her Revenge of the Dreamers II collaboration album. On the 21st of October in 2016, her Pho EP was released. Ari Lennox was a guest on J. Cole's Change, and she performed in The 4 Your Eyez Only Tour as opening performance. In 2018, she performed as a guest on two songs, with the EarthGang's Nothing but the Best song and Bas's Icarus. Ari Lennox's first album Shea Butter Baby was released on 16 July 2018. The album's first single, Whipped Cream, from the album dropped on September 5, 2018 with an accompanying music video. The second single she released was, Grampa on November 9. Then, on November 13 she dropped two more singles entitled No One and Pdigree. Shea Butter Baby. Shea Butter Baby was then able to make appearances on the Creed II album soundtrack alongside Cole. She released this single as a way in order to announce her debut album Creed II on 26 February 2019. In February of 2019, a music clip was released to promote the song. It has already received more than three millions views on YouTube within the first week. In support of the track, she toured with 6LACK in December of 2018 for their From East Atlanta With Love Tour.