Shea Butter Baby is the debut studio album by American singer and songwriter Ari Lennox. It was released on May 7, 2019, by Dreamville and Interscope Records. The album was executive produced by Dreamville producer Elite. In addition, the majority of the album was produced by Dreamville's in-house producers: J. Cole, Elite, Omen, Ron Gilmore, and Christo, among others. Shea Butter Baby is the debut studio album by American singer and songwriter Ari Lennox. It was released on May 7, 2019, by Dreamville and Interscope Records. The album was executive produced by Dreamville producer Elite. In addition, the majority of the album was produced by Dreamville's in-house producers: J. Cole, Elite, Omen, Ron Gilmore, and Christo, among others. false 2022-08-02 00:25:22 Shea Butter Baby 2019 2019-01-01 2019-01-01 44 Contemporary R&B;R&B;Soul 160537 2342577 e75ba2d2-c608-494f-a7ff-e4bf2d6757d1 6fe9125b-bd80-4704-9084-56bc7e07e48f de62c25f-6441-430d-b47c-0b3774dbd803 /media/data/media2/Music/Ari Lennox/Shea Butter Baby (2019)/folder.jpg Ari Lennox AlbumArtist Ari Lennox Artist Ari Lennox Ari Lennox 1 Chicago Boy 04:48 2 BMO 02:26 3 Broke 04:02 4 Up Late 04:26 5 Shea Butter Baby 03:31 6 Speak to Me 03:44 7 New Apartment 03:56 8 Facetime 02:31 9 Pop 02:18 10 I Been 03:41 11 Whipped Cream 04:48 12 Static 04:11 Courtney Shanade Salter (born March 26, 1991), known professionally as Ari Lennox, is an American R&B singer from Washington, D.C. She is the first female artist to be signed to J. Cole's record label, Dreamville Records. She began gaining recognition after the release of her first EP Pho (2016) on the label. That same year, she made an uncredited guest appearance on J. Cole's song "Change". Lennox's debut studio album Shea Butter Baby followed in 2019. Lennox has also been featured on the Dreamville compilation albums Revenge of the Dreamers II (2015), and Revenge of the Dreamers III (2019), the latter of which debuted at number one on the Billboard 200 chart and earned Lennox a Grammy Award nomination for Best Rap Album. In 2021, Lennox earned her first entries on the Billboard Hot 100 with her single "Pressure", and her feature on the song "Unloyal" by Summer Walker.