INTERVIEW: Ari Lennox Talks New Album ‘Vacancy’, Leaving Dreamville Records, Upcoming Tour, Dating + More

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4.4 • 14.4K Ratings

🗓️ 6 March 2026

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Today on The Breakfast Club, Ari Lennox Talks New Album ‘Vacancy’, Leaving Dreamville Records, Upcoming Tour, Dating. Listen For More!

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0:00.0	This is an I-Heart podcast.
0:02.6	Guaranteed Human.
0:04.6	Hold on.
0:20.4	Every day I wake up. Wake your ass up. The breakfast club. You're all finished or y'all is done. Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy. J. N.V. Just hilarious. Shalermaine de Guy. We are the breakfast club. Lawlerosa is here as well. And we got a special guest in the building. Yes and me. Ladies and gentlemen, Ari Lennox, welcome back.
0:22.6	All right.
0:23.6	How you feeling?
0:24.3	Thank you. is here as well. And we got a special guest in the building. Yes and ladies and gentlemen Ari Lennox. Welcome back.
0:22.4	All right. Thank you. How you feeling? How's your energy this morning? You
0:27.0	good? Amazing. Yeah. I love it. How are you? Bless Black and Holly favorite. Yes. Yes.
0:31.4	Yes. Vacancy is out right now. That's right. Yes. Um, vacancy can mean a lot of
0:37.1	things, right? Okay. It can mean emptiness. Yep. It can mean now. Yes, yes. Vacancy can mean a lot of things, right?
0:37.6	Okay.
0:38.1	It can mean emptiness.
0:39.2	Yeah.
0:39.7	It can mean opportunity.
0:41.1	What exactly became vacant in your life that allowed this version of R&Linix to exist and create this project?
0:48.3	I think it's just the repetitiveness of my dating life.
0:52.9	Yeah, the album encompasses a void that needs to be filled,
0:57.0	and that can be romantic.
0:59.0	It can be platonic.
1:00.0	It can mean, you know, in a business way.
1:03.0	It's just a metaphor for whatever that means to you, you know.
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