Talking about family issues has never been easy for anyone. For Ari Lennox, this topic became way too emotional for her as she told The Breakfast Club all about her father’s role when growing up and throughout her career as an artist.
After being asked if she felt pressured by her dad to make it in the music industry, Ari said,
“Wow. No. I think that’s probably – You know what? And it sucks ’cause we’re not even speaking right now. So we’re not even speaking right now, but I feel like when you instill certain things like that, it really goes a long way. It goes a long way for sure cause that is the one area in my life where I feel like I did really good.”
The Shea Butter singer continued and spoke about the possibility of rekindling her relationship with her father.
“It’s so much sh*t. It’s so much sh*t. So like, I really think it’s important for like people to be healed when they’re bringing kids into this world because it’s just like that alone I feel like probably enabled, helped me in so many ways like always grinding and sh*t like that. I could also see the other sh*t like you know that I carry, and it’s, I’m sure, it has to do with the other sh*t you know that you go through trauma and sh*t.”
Ms. Lennox also went on to say:
“I feel like there needs to be a lot of group therapy, and of course, I wanna continue my therapy alone, but I think that would probably be best because I know these are things that I’m even carrying into my dating life, you know what I’m saying? I just don’t wanna have that weight on me, and I do wanna be more compassionate because he went through a lot, you know, with foster care and abandonment issues and all kinds of like dark things, so I do recognize like why he is the way that he is.”
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Ari just released her sophomore studio album Age/Sex/Location, which is the follow-up to her 2019 debut of Shea Butter and features Chloe Bailey, Lucky Daye, and Summer Walker.