Ari Lennox, Pressure | Track Review 🎵

Underrated R&B singer/songwriter Ari Lennox drops one of the sassiest, sexiest, and best records of 2021 (R&B or otherwise). 

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ow I’m on top and now I’m ridin’ sky-high / Don’t need nobody, but I’ll take you down tonight.” Woo, 🎙 Ari Lennox! Although painfully underrated, the R&B singer/songwriter is incredibly talented.  A prime example is her utterly sublime single, 🎵 “Pressure”, produced by 🎛 Jermaine Dupri, 🎛 Bryan-Michael Cox, and 🎛 Elite. “Pressure” benefits from blending old-school and contemporary seamlessly.

 Ari Lennox is on fire on “Pressure,” period.  Her vocals are sassy and sexy – potent to the nth degree. The big draw is the personality she unleashes, in all its unrepentant sexiness. “So fine and spicy, baby, jump up on this (pressure) / I guess that’s why you like it baby, come and get this pressure,” she sings on the infectious chorus.  Besides the chorus, Lennox ‘does the damn thing’ on the verse, proving she’s a surefire, bad chick.  “Too fuckin’ hot for all these clothes anyways,” she confidently asserts, continuing, “My body drippin’, boy, but you gon’ have to wait / But when you get it, lick it like a candy cane.” Day-um! Clearly, the sex is through the roof, and we wouldn’t have it any other way!

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Final Thoughts 💭

If there was ever any doubt, Ari Lennox silences the haters.  She’s fierce AF on “Pressure,” one of the best R&B songs of 2021.  Besides being among the crème de la crème of R&B, I’d go so far as the characterize “Pressure” among the best songs of any genre in 2021.  Underrated, Lennox deserves much more love than she’s earned to this point.  Maybe, just maybe “Pressure” puts her ‘over the top!’

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🎙 Ari Lennox • 🎵 “Pressure” • 🏷 Dreamville / Interscope • 🗓 9.10.21
[📷: Brent Faulkner, Dreamville, Interscope,The Musical Hype, OpenClipart-Vectors from Pixabay]

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