Ari Lennox

Courtney Shanade Salter (born March 26th, 1991) is better known under her professional moniker Ari Lennox is an American musician and singer born in Washington, D.C. She is the first female artist affiliated with J. Cole's label Dreamville Records. She released her first EP for the label on Oct. 21st, 2016, titled Pho. This is when she began gaining notoriety. Shea Butter Baby her debut studio album came out on May 7th 2019. Ari Lennox began uploading her music onto the internet in 2012 as she dropped her first mixtape Five Finger Discount and debut EP Ariography, in 2013. The singer continued uploading her tracks online through 2014, which included the self-released single Bound. On 21st of July the 21st of July in 2015 Omen was featured on Elephant Eyes song"Sweat It Out. J. Cole was interested in her talent and wanted to work in conjunction with Rihanna. The 8th of December was the day she revealed that she had contracted to Dreamville Records. Backseat is one of the songs she co-wrote with Cozz to record the collaboration album Revenge of the Dreamers II. The 21st of October, 2016, her debut EP was released under the name Pho. Ari Lennox was a guest on J. Cole's Change and also performed on the 4 Your Eyez Only Tour as an opening artist. She also appeared in 2018 on two songs alongside her labelmates EarthGang to Nothing but the Best. Also, she appeared on Bas on Icarus. Ari Lennox, on the 16th of July 2018, released her first single "Whipped Cream" from Shea Butter Baby. A music video to accompany it was released on September 5th. Then, on the 9th November she dropped two additional singles titled 40 Shades of Choke (and Grampa). In November 2013, she dropped No One as well as Pedigree. The singer appeared alongside Cole on the Creed II Soundtrack on Shea Butter Baby the 16th of November 16th, and released the song in a solo version to her first album. The 20th of February, 2019, a music video was released for the song. It has already received nearly three million hits on YouTube in its initial week. In December 2018, she was part of The From East Atlanta With Love Tour featuring 6LACK.