Hoodcelebrityy

Jamaican-born emcee HoodCelebrityy grew up Tina Pinnock in the St. Catherine Parish region. She spent her childhood surrounded by reggae music and culture, and when she relocated to the Bronx as a pre-teen, she was immersed in the world of New York rap and hip-hop. She spent her teenage years and early twenties working retail and coped with the boredom by sneaking away from her post and uploading videos of herself freestyling to her Instagram account. It was the rising popularity of these off-the-cuff videos that the HoodCelebrityy persona was born. In 2015, Pinnock's longtime...