Name Adam Grandmaison | Role Podcast Host | |
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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 |
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.
Contents
- BMX Vlog Running Deep in a Poker Tournament
- The No Jumper Show 54 ADAM22 vs AKADEMIKS
- Facts
- Net Worth
- Early Life
- Personal Life
- Family Details
- Father Phil Grandmaison
- Mother Ann Grandmaison
- Sister Sara Manheim
- Brother in law Josh Manheim
- Nephews Henry Manheim and another toddler
- Girlfriend Lena Nersesian aka Lena the Plug
- Children
- Relationship with Lena the Plug Emily
- Career
- No Jumper
- Discography
- Controversies
- Allegations
- Questions Answers
- How old is Adam22
- Where does Adam live
- Where is Adam from
- Is Adam single
- How did Adam get famous
- References
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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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’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.