Ari Lennox
Courtney Shanade Salter, better known by her stage name of Ari Lennox, is an American singer and musician born in Washington, D.C., who was the first woman to join J. Cole's Dreamville Records record label. The label released her first EP titled Pho in October 2016 where she started getting noticed. The album that she released as her debut album Shea Butter Baby was released on May 7, 2019. Ari Lennox started uploading her music on the internet in 2012 when she launched her debut mixtape called Five Finger Discount and debut EP Ariography In 2013. The year 2014 saw her continue to share her music over the web, including her own release single Bound. The track Sweat it is featured on Omen's Elephant Eyes album which dropped on July 21st, 2015. J. Cole asked her to collaborate with him for Rihanna's references. In the following calendar, her songs was played throughout Dreamville. Then, in December of 2008 it was announced that Rihanna was hired by Dreamville Records. Backseat is a song that she recorded with Cozz to record the collaboration album Revenge of the Dreamers II. The 21st of October, 2016 the debut EP of Ari Lennox was released titled Pho. Ari Lennox appeared in J. Cole's Change track and also opened with the 4 Your Eyez Only Tour 2017. In 2018, she went on to appear on two of her songs along with label-mates EarthGang on Nothing but the Best and Bas on Icarus. Ari Lennox, on the 16th of July 2018, released her first single "Whipped Cream" from Shea Butter Baby. The music video for it was also released on September 5th. In November, she dropped two singles, 40 Shades of Choke & Grampa. On the 13th of November two singles called No One and pedigree. Shea Butter Baby was released as her first single on February 26, 2019, for her album Creed II. Shea Butter Baby performed along with Cole in her Creed II sound track on the 16th of November. In February her music video to this track was launched. It has had more than 3 million YouTube views in just a single week. She was the supporting act for 6LACK on their From East Atlanta With Love Tour during December 2018.
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