Later this month, he’ll launch and host the first No Jumper tour, a West Coast swing featuring Smokepurpp and Lil Pump, which includes an April 7 stop at the Echoplex. Tomorrow, a major label flies him to New York to discuss a potential interview series. His BMX and clothing store, On Some Shit, is moving from its downtown digs to a larger Melrose space - complete with an area to shoot videos (the dream is to become a modern version of BET’s Rap City: Tha Basement). It’s a particularly chaotic time for the 33-year-old, but he’s surprisingly Zen, especially for a guy with cranial tattoos. He’s covered in ink, 6 foot 3 or 6 foot 4, and looks ready to front a Black Flag reunion. “I stay up most nights until like 6 or 7 in the morning listening to music online, watching videos and going down weird reading wormholes,” Grandmaison says, sipping a Jameson on ice. Over the last few years, he’s turned obsessive dives into the smoked-out vortexes of SoundCloud into one of the most popular podcasts and YouTube channels in existence. You may not recognize his government name, but if you’re familiar with underground rap or BMX racing, you know him as Adam22 or Adam Onsomeshit, or maybe just as the host of YouTube’s No Jumper. Thompson famously wrote, “I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol or insanity to anyone, but they’ve always worked for me.” If you add to “the internet” to those vices, you could make a similar point for Adam Grandmaison.
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