Tinashe Rubs First Billboard Solo Hit In Former Label’s Face

Tinashe is in virgin territory — her new music “Nasty” is her first Billboard Scorching 100 hit, and he or she’s celebrating the accomplishment … particularly as a result of she made it off her unbiased grind!!!

TMZ Hip Hop spoke with Tinashe Wednesday in between “Nasty” rehearsals at “Jimmy Kimmel Live,” and the R&B singer was popping her ish.

Tinashe’s been vocal in interviews about her uphill battle, career-wise, since abandoning RCA’s main label machine a pair years in the past — however she tells us it was her followers and arduous work that received her on the charts as a solo act.

Followers positively pushed the one tougher than an A&R … TikTok customers dubbed the music onto a nerdy man dancing and birthed a “Nasty Challenge” that unfold like wildfire.

The success isn’t any fluke both — the observe is anticipated to leap much more spots within the coming weeks, particularly now that social media customers are realizing that is Tinashe singing on their TikTok’s 🤭.