Biography
Jamaican emcee HoodCelebrityy was born Tina Pinnock in the St. Catherine Parish area, where reggae sounds and traditions filled her early surroundings. After moving to the Bronx before her teens, she absorbed the rhythms of New York rap and hip-hop. Throughout her late teens and early twenties she held retail jobs, escaping the monotony by slipping away to record spontaneous freestyle clips that she posted on Instagram. Those informal videos steadily built an audience and gave rise to the HoodCelebrityy identity.
In 2015 her longtime acquaintance Cardi B reposted one of the freestyles, propelling the rapper into wider online visibility. Right after that exposure she cut her debut single, “Wine Pon It,” which introduced a sound fusing the unfiltered reggae of her Jamaican background with the bold, East Coast rap attitude shaped by her Bronx setting. Subsequent releases included the sparse trap-and-dancehall track “The Takeover,” and she began performing live, supporting reggae-pop icon Shaggy and other acts.
Her first mixtape, Can’t Believe It’s Just a Girl, appeared in spring 2017; months later she issued the follow-up Trap vs. Reggae. The more radio-friendly single “Walking Trophy” arrived in November 2017, its tone noticeably lighter than earlier material, and was featured on the 2018 EP Inna Real Life.
In 2015 her longtime acquaintance Cardi B reposted one of the freestyles, propelling the rapper into wider online visibility. Right after that exposure she cut her debut single, “Wine Pon It,” which introduced a sound fusing the unfiltered reggae of her Jamaican background with the bold, East Coast rap attitude shaped by her Bronx setting. Subsequent releases included the sparse trap-and-dancehall track “The Takeover,” and she began performing live, supporting reggae-pop icon Shaggy and other acts.
Her first mixtape, Can’t Believe It’s Just a Girl, appeared in spring 2017; months later she issued the follow-up Trap vs. Reggae. The more radio-friendly single “Walking Trophy” arrived in November 2017, its tone noticeably lighter than earlier material, and was featured on the 2018 EP Inna Real Life.
Albums
Singles
