Ari Lennox

Courtney Shanade Salter, aka Ari Lennox, was born in Washington, D.C. on the 26th of March on the 26th of March, 1991. She is an American singer-songwriter and the first artist signed by J. Cole to his record label Dreamville Records. Her first EP, Pho which was released on 21 October 2016 was released through Dreamville Records. Her career began to grow in fame. Shea Butter Baby her debut album was released on May 7, 2019. Ari Lennox has been uploading her music since 2012 with her debut mixtape "Five Finger Discount" and her EP Ariography. In 2014, she continued to share her music over the internet including her independently released single Bound. On July 21 2015 she appeared on Omen's album Elephant Eyes with the track Sweat It Out. J. Cole was interested by her talent and was looking to collaborate with Rihanna. On December 8 it was revealed that she had contracted to Dreamville Records. On the release album Revenge of the Dreamers II She was on the track Backseat with Cozz. The 21st of October, 2016, the EP Pho debuted. Ari Lennox performed the song Change by J. Cole as well as opening the 4 Your Eyez Only Tour 2017 in which she was joined by EarthGang. In 2018, she appeared in two songs, with the EarthGang's Nothing but the Best song and Bas's Icarus. On July 16 2018 Ari Lennox released the first single, Whipped Cream of her album debut Shea Butter Baby with an accompanied music video on the 5th of September. In November, she dropped her singles 40 Shades of Choke & Grampa. In November 13, she dropped two singles titled No One or Pedigree. Shea Butter Baby is a song that she performed with Cole for Creed II's soundtrack on the 16th of November. It was then released as a standalone single in February 2019, to coincide with the release of her debut album. In February of 2019, her music video to the track debuted. The song has received more than 3 million YouTube views in just one week. In December 2018 she was a supporting act on The From East Atlanta With Love Tour with 6LACK.