*Ari Lennox recently opened up to her fans on Instagram Live, sharing that she’s facing significant financial challenges and is deeply in debt to the IRS. She humorously mentioned that she might have to resort to “strange” methods to settle her bills.
“I’m just gonna tell y’all my business,” she stated, Hot New Hip Hop reports. “I need to pay this IRS. The strange things I’m finna do for change, just so i can just break even. I’m gonna crazy and then we start anew.”
When one fan suggested she make an IRS “diss album,” Lennox replied, “Absolutely not.”
“They have been gentle with me… So, I will not be starting a beef with them, we do not have no beef, I am paying them back. Okay? I am paying them and I’m finna be caught up,” the singer added.
As WBLS reports, Ari Lennox joins a list of entertainers who have faced serious tax issues with the IRS. In 2011, Ja Rule was sentenced to 28 months in prison for failing to pay taxes over five years, owing more than $1 million. DMX received a one-year sentence in 2018 for evading $1.7 million in taxes, and Lauryn Hill served three months in prison after pleading guilty to tax evasion in 2012.
Earlier this year, Lennox threatened to sue former rapper-turned podcast host Joe Budden after he criticized her for complaining about her experience on Rod Wave’s “Nostalgia Tour.”
As EUR’s Chris Richburg reported, it wasn’t Wave who was the source of her unhappiness. It was the audiences she encountered at tour stops for the rapper’s Nostalgia tour.
“I started trying to communicate with the audience and then I realized they were getting angry at me affirming them,” Lennox recalled at the time. “You’re getting angry that I’m affirming you? This is not my crowd. And it’ll never be. And that’s alright,” she added.
During an episode of “The Joe Budden Podcast,” the host said, “Anybody that could tour – it’s a blessing. So, don’t think that we’re kicking your back in….But, if you don’t want to do that show don’t f— tell us!”
Per Ice Cream Convos, Budden added, “Tell your team and the people that talk to you for months about this tour coming up with Rod Wave who is selling out arenas nationwide.”
He continued, “I just don’t like you grabbing your phone to tell the audience how miserable you were when you didn’t tell your team or told them and they didn’t really care.”
Ari took to social media to react to his remarks, threatening to sue Budden if he continues to keep her name in his mouth.
“I don’t know what it is or what it will take maybe I have to sue him. Is that what I have to do?” she said, adding, “I should literally just drop $20K to sue him. I really should. Just because.”
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