Ari Lesser

Birth Name: Ari Benjamin Lesser

Place of Birth: Cleveland Heights, Ohio, U.S.

Date of Birth: November 9, 1986

Ethnicity: Ashkenazi Jewish

Ari Lesser is an American rapper, singer, songwriter, and spoken word artist. He is also known as Johnny Rappleseed. He has worked in the Jewish hip hop genre.

He is the son of Susan Wolpert and Raymond Lesser, who co-founded the humor publication Funny Times. Raised in Reconstructionist Judaism, he became a baal teshuva and took a Nazirite vow. Ari is married, and has three children.