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Adam Grandmaison (born November 24, 1983), more commonly known as Adam22, is an American 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".
Revived in 2015, Grandmaison's No Jumper podcast, hosted on YouTube, focuses on interviews with rap artists and pop culture tastemakers. As of August 2023, the channel has about 1.6 billion video views. It originally started as a BMX podcast with vlogs dedicated to Grandmaison's life running ONSOMESHIT's retail store. His interview of Memphis underground rapper Xavier Wulf soon turned viral within hip-hop communities, sparking Grandmaison's newfound interest in interviewing known figures within both underground and mainstream hip-hop.
Grandmaison, through his No Jumper podcast, has been noted for interviewing up-and-coming talent as well as established rappers. He has interviewed artists including Lil Yachty, Lil Peep, Pouya, Juice Wrld, Suicideboys, Young Thug, 6ix9ine and most famously XXXTentacion in April 2016; the latter interview has received over 21 million views as of 2023. This was the Florida rapper's first official professional interview, and it has been credited with giving him exposure to a wide audience.
In addition to underground and established rappers, Grandmaison through his No Jumper channel has expanded to interview a variety of artists and pop culture-oriented guests, of different careers and backgrounds including Livestreaming, , actors, , Music journalism, and . Notable people interviewed include Anthony Fantano, KSI, Riley Reid, "Sugar" Sean O'Malley, Aaron Carter, and Charlamagne tha God.
Rolling Stone described him as "underground hip-hop's major tastemaker" and "an advance scout searching for combustible new talent."
The No Jumper YouTube channel had over 4.7 million subscribers and about 1.7 billion total views as of June 2024. Jon Caramanica of the New York Times described No Jumper as " The Paris Review for the face-tattoo set".
Grandmaison hosted the inaugural Trap Circus music festival in Miami, Florida, in 2017.Markowitz, Douglas. Meet Adam22, the Podcast Mogul Who's Hosting Trap Circus. Miami New Times. November 22, 2017.Coleman, Vernon C. Cardi B Previews More New Music Ahead of Debut Albums. XXL. November 18, 2017.
On June 20, 2018, Grandmaison held a memorial event for rapper XXXTentacion, who had been murdered in Florida two days prior, in front of his ONSOMESHIT store in Los Angeles, with a crowd of about 300 people. The crowd soon grew to over 1,000, and police in Riot control eventually appeared in response. According to reports, were shot and tear gas was used to disperse the crowd.
Grandmaison was one of the promoters for YouTube personality Yousef Erakat's event "Hate Dies, Love Arrives", which was shut down via a bomb threat which left 1,500 people evacuated. Shortly after the event, while Grandmaison interviewed Shane Dawson, mid-interview, FouseyTube, Keemstar, Sam Pepper and Ice Poseidon interrupted, causing the interview to go viral.
During the 2022 trial of rapper Tory Lanez for his 2020 shooting of Megan Thee Stallion, No Jumper
In April 2025, Grandmaison announced that No Jumper was going broke and that they were laying off employees and closing their retail store in Los Angeles. It was also announced that they were selling their warehouse and relocating to a smaller workspace. Grandmaison additionally explained that two of the major reasons for the financial losses was their Instagram account being taken down and a lawsuit filed against the company by two former employees.
In December 2019, the film was announced to be a professional pornographic film and was released for free in collaboration with Pornhub titled "Podcast Smash". The title is a reference to Adam22's No Jumper podcast and stars him and his partner Lena the Plug.
Grandmaison, along with his fiancée Lena, announced a new podcast in November 2021 titled Plug Talk, which focuses on interviewing pornographic film stars on OnlyFans and having intercourse with them afterward. It premiered November 16, 2021, with guest Adriana Chechik.
In February 2025, Grandmaison released a Cryptocurrency meme coin on the Solana blockchain. He announced the coin on Twitter 30 minutes after it was deployed. Within hours, the coin grew from a $500k market cap to a $4 million market cap. At which point, insiders dumped their shares and the coin crashed to a $100k market cap. Grandmaison subsequently deleted his posts promoting the coin on social media. Coffeezilla, a crypto journalist who is primarily known for investigating and exposing crypto scams, referred to the coin as a pump and dump scam. He also released screenshots of text messages with Grandmaison that show that Grandmaison "knowingly" scammed his fans. In the aftermath of the controversy over his crypto coin, Grandmaison made a tweet where he expressed displeasure with how his meme coin ended up and asked for feedback from fans about what he could do to make his next meme coin better.
On June 1, 2023, Rolling Stone published an exposé revealing multiple women and girls—the youngest aged 16 years old—who accused Grandmaison of sexual assault, sexual abuse, and coercion, including pressuring them to film pornographic content with him and his wife, Lena. The article cited a blog entry by Grandmaison writing about one of his alleged victims: "She was 16, but come on man, look at her. She's 18 or 19 in most of the pics here but she didn't look much different at all then. If statutory rape is wrong I didn't wanna be right." Grandmaison denied the allegations.
Grandmaison identifies as an Atheism.
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