What good is a bed when there’s a hooptie instead

Ari Lennox. "Backseat (Feat. Cozz)." PHO, Dreamville/Interscope, 2016.

Thanks to my homegirl Marika for scooping this lil' ditty at SXSW. Ari Lennox has got some serious soul.

Read up on how Lennox found herself working on J.Cole's Dreamville imprint after throwing up some covers online, including this dreamy flip of Beyoncé's "Drunk In Love," in this interview with The FADER.

She slays it on this Otis Redding track, one of my all-time favourites...

...and just one more of her take on the legendary Lauryn Hill's classic "X Factor," background noise and all.

Come back baby, boomerang

Miguel, J. Cole. "All I Want Is You." All I Want Is You, JIVE Records, a unit of Sony Music Entertainment, 2010.

Smooth like butter-soft leather. Plus you got J. Cole trying to celebrate his Independence Day (Will Smith).