When he got to Okuapeman Secondary School, his dad booked sessions for him with Hammer of The Last Two which landed him into being part of the Last 2 family as a 'foot soldier'.
His dream of making it to the top of the hiplife ladder came true when Hammer of The Last Two secured a deal for him with Abraham Ohene-Djan (CEO of OM Studios).
With a beat maker like Hammer at the helm of things, Nii Addo decided to use the name Tinny as his stage name because it was his real name and blasted onto the Ghanaian music scene in 2003 with ‘Makola Kwakwe’.
[5] Cadbury launched a campaign using Ghanaian traditional culture to raise additional funds for cocoa growing communities.
The campaign was a promotion for Tinny's track Zingolo, as well as the Ghana-based dance troupe High Spirits.
The Zingolo single is available on iTunes, with proceeds going to CARE, which funds education in Ghana's cocoa growing communities.
The Zingolo campaign was developed at Fallon, London, by executive creative director Richard Flintham, creative directors Chris Bovill, John Allison, creatives Filip Tyden, Dan Watts, Chris Bovill, John Allison, account director Nathalie Clarke, agency strategist Tom Goodwin, executive producer Nicky Barnes and agency producer Gemma Knight.
[7] The song, and the record label, were also set up to celebrate "all things Ghana, its people, its rappers, its dancers, its cultural figures and, of course, its cocoa beans"[7] The advertisement was broadcast on television and cinema.
[8] On 2 January 2007 he organized and performed two songs at his grand New Year's party for 300 HIV/AIDS orphaned children at Manya-krobo in the eastern region of Ghana to mark the beginning of his “Mytinny – Contribution Campaign” which he says would be his Annual Social Responsibility Project.
The items donated included food and drinks, talking calculators, and 51 packets of Braille sheets.
Speaking to the children, Tinny encouraged them to learn extra hard to become influential people in society, despite the poor conditions they found themselves in now.