Ari Lennox
Courtney Shanade Salter (born March 26th, 1991) more popularly known as her stage moniker Ari Lennox is an American singer and songwriter from Washington, D.C. She is the first female artist affiliated with J. Cole's record label Dreamville Records. The label debuted her first album titled Pho in the month of October 2016, and she was able to get recognition. Shea Butter Baby is her debut album. It was released in May of 2019. Ari Lennox began uploading her music online in the year 2012, when she released her mixtape debut Five Finger Discount, and her debut EP Ariography in 2013. She continued to upload her songs online throughout 2014 and released her own single Bound. She appeared in Omen's Elephant Eyes and in Sweat It Out on July 21 the 21st of July, 2015. J. Cole, who was part of the Dreamville crew back then and wanted her to work on Rihanna references. In December 2008, it was revealed that Rihanna had been hired by Dreamville Records. Backseat was her contribution fo...