Adam22

About

Adam Grandmaison (born November 24, 1983), more commonly known as Adam22, is an American podcaster and YouTuber. He is the creator and host of the hip-hop culture-oriented podcast No Jumper. In 2017, Rolling Stone described him as “underground hip-hop’s major tastemaker”.

Grandmaison became a BMX rider at a young age and enjoyed hip-hop music, including Gucci Mane’s hit “Bricks” that includes the line, “I’m ballin’ like an athlete but got no jumper.” This inspired the name No Jumper for his future blog and podcast.

In 2006, Grandmaison started the BMX website The Come Up. Later, he created ONSOMESHIT, a BMX biking team and BMX-based clothing line which at one point had a retail store on Melrose Avenue in Los Angeles.

No Jumper was originally a blog on Tumblr created by George Potter. The blog, which was financed by Grandmaison, showed early interest in underground artists such as SpaceGhostPurrp and Clams Casino, and reviewed obscure Gucci Mane mixtapes, treating the underground with “critical attention”.
Revived in 2015, Grandmaison’s No Jumper podcast, hosted on YouTube, focuses…