Ari Lennox
Courtney Shanade Salter, aka Ari Lennox, was born in Washington, D.C. on April 26th in 1991. She is an American musician and singer. She was the first artist signed by J. Cole to his record label Dreamville Records. On October 21, 2016 she debuted Pho, her debut EP on the Dreamville Records label. It was at this point that she began to gain notoriety. Shea Butter Baby, her debut album, was released on the 7th of May, 2019. Ari Lennox first uploaded songs online in the year 2012. She released her debut album Ariography and her mixtape debut in 2013, the mixtape Five Finger Discount. She continued to upload her tracks online through 2014 and released her own single Bound. In the year 2015, she performed on Omen's Elephant Eyes Album on Sweat it out on July 21st. In the following year, her music circulated all over the Dreamville team, as J. Cole wanted her to collaborate with him on some potential references to Rihanna. She officially was signed to Dreamville Records on 8 December. She made an appearance on the album collaboratively titled Revenge of the Dreamers II featuring the track Backseat Cozz. On the 21st of October in 2016, the EP Pho debuted. Ari Lennox then appeared as the opening performance to J. Cole on his song Change in 2017, and performed on 4 Your Eyez Only Tour. The singer also performed in the music videos Nothing but the Best by EarthGang and Icarus together with Bas and her labelmates. On July 16 2018 Ari Lennox released the first single Whipped Cream on her first album Shea Butter Baby with an accompanying music video that was released on September 5. Then, in November, she released the singles forty Shades of Choke & Grampa. In November, 13, she released two additional singles entitled No One and Pdigree. Shea Butter Baby was released on her debut single, February 26, 2019 to accompany the album Creed II. Shea Butter Baby performed along with Cole in her Creed II sound track on November 16. It was released with an accompanying music video that debuted on February 20 2019, and it surpassed the milestone of 3 million views via YouTube within one week. In December 2018, she performed as performing as a support act on From East Atlanta With Love Tour. From East Atlanta With Love Tour with 6LACK.






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