Adam22 (Podcast Host and Internet Personality)

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Name Adam Grandmaison		Role Podcast Host

Born November 24, 1983 (Age 39) ( 1983-11-24 ) Nashua, New Hampshire, United States Height 6’ feet (1.83 meters) Nationality American Years active 2006–present Birth Sign Sagittarius Similar Lena The Plug (Youtube and Instagram Star) , Logan Paul , Jake Paul

Adam22 is the nickname of Adam Grandmaison, who is an American podcast host, music executive, rapper, YouTuber, entrepreneur and also a BMX rider and enthusiast. His podcast, called No Jumper, is a popular show that features interviews with multiple personalities from the music industry, all related to rap and hip-hop. It’s also an influent show for upcoming artists in the field, having featured interviews with rappers like Xxxtentacion and 6IX9INE (Teka$hi69) before they got consolidated in the music business. His YouTube channel, where the podcast is hosted, has more than 3.4 million subscribers.

BMX Vlog & Running Deep in a Poker Tournament!!!

Adamis also the head of a few brands and stores. He owns a street BMXstore in Los Angeles, an online shop called ONSOMESHIT that sell clothes, stickers and some BMX related stuff, and also runs a store of products related to his podcast No Jumper, selling merchandise such as tees, sweatshirts, sweatpants, socks and other stuff, like kendamas.

Adam Grandmaison is serious. He is holding chopsticks with dumplings, has a mustache and beard, a tattoo on his neck and fingers, and is wearing a black jacket.

Before Adam launched his podcast, YouTube channel and online merchandise shops, he had run a BMX blog, called The Come Up, and also played online poker professionally for a while.

The No Jumper Show #54: ADAM22 vs AKADEMIKS

Facts

• Adam identifies himself as an atheist

• Adam spent 10 years away from poker and decided to play again in 2018, earning $20 thousand in his first session back

Net Worth

As of 2020 Adam’s net worth is estimated to be approx US $1.5 million.

Early Life

Adam Grandmaison is smiling. He has black hair with a tattoo on his neck and is wearing a black shirt with a printed image of a man seated in a room with yellow walls and large windows. He has black hair and is wearing a silver necklace with a large pendant and a scarf over his neck with FREEGUCCI written on the front.

Since his early years, Adam has shown interest in bike motocross, often going to ride in Boston with friends when he was younger. Prior to that, he also had shown interest in wrestling, but his mother prohibited further contact with these styles of fighting since he was getting into many fights in school. Then, he turned his attention to hip-hop and rap music, being influenced by SnoopDogg and the underground scene the singer was into.

Regarding his studies, he attended the Nashua High School South in his hometown, and after graduation he attended a community college in the neighbor state of Massachusetts for a year, until he transferred to University of Massachusetts Lowell (UMass Lowell). However, he decided to drop university after a while, and had gone to live in New York instead.

Personal Life

Adam Grandmaison is serious, side view, with closed eyes while smoking, has bald head and with tattoo all over his body top naked.

Adam22 is originally from Nashua, a small town of the state of New Hampshire, located right in the border with Massachusetts. He was born in November 24 of 1983. He grew up with a sister and his mother worked as a librarian in his hometown.

His father went to prison when he was in 6th grade because of a white collar crime, being released only when Adam was about 16 years old. This situation caused a lot of stress throughout the Grandmaison family back when it happened, but Adam says he still loves his parents very much.

As of 2020 , Adam lives in Los Angeles, California. He has a cat named Tony and is currently dating the social media personality Lena Nersesian, better known as Lena The Plug. Earlier in 2020 the couple announced they are expecting their first child.

Family Details

Adam Grandmaison with his parents Phil and Ann Grandmaison. from left, Adam Grandmaison is serious, wearing a black hoodie, in the middle Phil Grandmaison is serious standing, has bald head wearing a green hoodie over a black shirt, at the right Ann Grandmaison is smiling looking down, has brown-blond hair, wearing a white and black striped hoodie over a white shirt.

Father Phil Grandmaison

His father was a former social worker and was imprisoned when adam was in 6th grade because of a white collar crime in which he got involved. He had participated in some of Adam’s vlogs in the past.

There’s one video entitled ‘I Look Like My Dad’ in which Adam and his father go on a road trip to Adam’s friend’s house. In the beginning of the vlog you can see them side to side and it is clear the resemblance between the two. His father is also a New England Patriots fan.

Mother Ann Grandmaison

She is a former librarian who used to work in Nashua, New Hampshire. In a video posted in 2015, featuring a trip of Adam’s family, she appears frequently interacting with her son. She even calls him savage at one point, because he said he was trying to get a girl’s phone number (a situation that was not recorded), and asks his mother what she thought about the girl. Then she states that the girl seemed to be the kind of women Adam likes, because she had purple hair.

Outside a white house, Adam Grandmaison (left) is serious, pointing his finger at his Sara (right), standing, has black hair wearing a red checkered long sleeve polo, Sara Manheim(right) is surprise, mouth open, hands up, has short black hair wearing a red top.

Young Adam with his sister when he was just 19.

Sister Sara Manheim

His sister is younger than him, is married and has two sons. One is called Henry and the other is also a boy, although his name is not disclosed on the internet. She also appears in the family trip vlog he posted on his YouTube channel in 2015, and by the time of that recording she was already pregnant with her second child.

Brother in law Josh Manheim

His sister’s husband, Josh, works together with Adam as a business manager at No Jumper, in the Greater Los Angeles Area.

Nephews Henry Manheim and another toddler

Henry is about 6 years old and the other nephew is about 4 years old as of 2020.

Girlfriend Lena Nersesian, aka Lena the Plug

As of 2020 he is dating Lena Nersesian, better known as Lena The Plug, a popular online personality for explicit videos she creates for social media.

Children

In the kitchen with white cabinets and a stainless steel oven, Adam Grandmaison is serious, looking down with his right hand touching Lena's stomach. He has black hair, a tattoo on his face and fingers, and is wearing a blue cap and a black hoodie. On the right, Lena Grandmaison is smiling, standing, holding Adam's hand, and wearing a white shirt with a printed skate shoe on it.

Adam is currently expecting his first child with Lena. The couple announced in April, by posting on Instagram a photo of a private gender reveal party, that the baby is a girl. She is expected to be born in October of 2020.

Relationship with Lena the Plug & Emily

Lena the Plug sent a DM to Adam22 back in 2016, and that’s when they met each other. Soon they started to hang out together and by September of the same year they were already dating. The couple has said that their first date was on a podcast, when Adam was interviewed by Gangsta Boo and Jackie Chain.

On a gray background, on the left, Lena Nersesian is smiling. Standing in her back view with her side breast visible, looking to her right, she has long black hair and is wearing a black noodle strap top and a gold necklace. On the right, Adam Grandmaison is standing, looking at Lena, he has a bald head, a beard, and a mustache, he has a tattoo from his neck to his head, and he is wearing a tank top under a black coat.

Their relationship is not confirmed to be open, but it is known that the couple engage in intimate contact with a third person very frequently. These threesomes are part of Lena’s work, which consists of explicit sex videos she records for her premium adult content channel.

On the left, Lena Nersesianand(left) is happy, speaking, mouth half open, sitting on the bed with her hands open, has black hair wearing a black cleavage showing noodle strap and black shorts, Emily Rinaudo(right) is smiling, winking with her left eye, sitting on the bed, has black hair wearing a black top showing cleavage, at the right, Adam Grandmaison is serious, looking down, sitting on the bed leaning backwards, touching Lena's butt, wearing a white cap and black shirt Lena Nersesian is serious, kneeling at the bed with her back view, holding a glass of clear drink with lemon and white straw has black long hair wearing a black sports bra and black sports shorts, on the bottom, Lena, Adam, and Emily have an intimate moment while on the bed all of them are wearing color black outfits.

Lena caused controversy in 2017 when she claimed to allow her best friend, Emily Willis, have sex with Adam. She even has a video on her YouTube channel where she talks about this with Emily by her side. Adam and Lena have a close relationship with Emily, and she was often a participant in the couple’s sexual life.

Career

Adam started to blog in 2006, when he created the BMX blog Thecomeup. The website was considered the most popular one about bicycle motocross on the internet. At that time, he was living in New York and started to earn some profit by playing online poker. He also committed credit card fraud back then, but after some years in to the practice he started to feel anxious about his illegal activity and decided to stop doing that.

On the left, a deck of cards and poker chips. in the middle, Adam Grandmaison is serious, riding a BMX, at the right he is doing a peace sign, wearing a white shirt, and black pants.

When the site started to be more profitable for Adam, he dropped the poker and focused on working on the Thecomeup full-time. Later, he founded his brand ONSOMESHIT and started to sell clothes and other stuff online. Nowadays he also runs a physical ONSOMESHIT store in Los Angeles, where he sells BMX merchandise.

In 2015 he started his podcast called No Jumper. The show is transmitted on YouTube and focuses on interviews with personalities from the rap and hip-hop music scene. No Jumper has increased Adam’s popularity immensely since its debut, being the venture for which he’s best known for.

No Jumper

Adam Grandmaison is serious, holding a microphone, with a tattoo on his neck and arm, wearing sunglasses and a black jacket, at the top right A black box with white border with a word HNHH TV

Adam’s podcast No Jumper was created in 2015 and it was named after a Gucci Mane song. The show is released on YouTube since the beginning, and features interviews with a lot of people related to the music industry, focusing on underground rap and hip-hop artists.

It is said that musicians that are interviewed on No Jumper gain a substantial increase in popularity right after the exposure, thanks to Adam’s big influence in the music business. In fact, Adam announced in 2018 that he launched a new label, called No Jumper Records, partnering up with Atlantic Records and consolidating his work as a music executive. As of 2020, the No Jumper YouTube channel has almost 3.5 million subscribers and counts more than 830 million views.

Discography

• Single: Hard (featuring Tay-K and BlocBoy JB), released in 2018.

• Single: Rivals (featuring Killy and Smooky MarGielaa), released in 2018.

Controversies

Adam22 has already faced a few controversies since he started to be a popular personality online. One of the oldest cases he was involved with happened in 2014, when he posted on his Facebook account a video featuring some BMX riders who were known to have frequented his store before. The cause of controversy was the content of the video, in which these people were depicted bunny hopping over some homeless individuals in downtown LA. Later, Adam said he did not condone with such actions.

Allegations

In March 2018, a Twitter thread emerged accusing Adam of sexually assaulting different women, including some minor ones at the time of the alleged event. In the post, a few evidences were shown, including some old blog posts and a forum screenshot in which a user called “Grandmaison” admits to have had sex with a 16 year-old and a 17 year-old.

An article published on Pitchfork also held some allegations against him. Two victims, called by the fictional names of “Jane” and “D”, accused him of unwanted advances that led to a sexual contact they didn’t want to, both in different occasions.

Adam denied all the accusations made against him by publishing statements on Twitter and also defending himself in interviews he had participated after the allegations.

Questions & Answers

How old is Adam22 ?

Adam22 was born in 1983 and is currently 36 years.

Where does Adam live ?

Adam lives in Los Angeles, California.

Where is Adam from ?

Adam is from Nashua, New Hampshire.

Is Adam single ?

Adam22 is currently dating social media personality Lena The Plug.

How did Adam get famous ?

Adam started to gain popularity online because of his old BMX blog, Thecomeup, and later had his popularity increased when he created the podcast No Jumper.

References

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