However, Adam revived it in 2015 and hosted a podcast on YouTube. Following a year of activity on the blog, posts slowed to a stop in 2012. Formerly a rap Tumble guy, he took his music career up a notch by releasing two singles in 2018: Hard featuring Tay-K and BlocBoy JB and Rivals featuring Killy and Smooky MarGielaa. It was initially started as a blog on Tumblr in 2011 by George Potter and financed by Adam22.Īs a blog, it covered emerging artists such as Clams Casino being ignored by larger media publications. Afterwards, he debuted on the hip-hop scene with the podcast and video series called No Jumper. Being a prolific BMX biker, he also created a BMX biking team and a BMX-based clothing line known as On Some Shit with a retail store on Melrose Avenue in Los Angeles. The site went on to become one of the most popular BMX websites of all time.
Thus, he founded his own website, The Come Up, in 2006 to change the way BMX is looked at. Career With this myriad of activities at his disposal, he considered putting all together to bring innovation into the BMX arena especially with most of the BMX websites at that time either outdated or did not post often. He also played professional poker online. As a young boy, other activities also got his attention such as writing (he regularly posted video-game reviews and other related blogs) and cycle sport particularly BMX riding.
Afterwards, he moved to the University of Massachusetts Lowell but dropped out before graduating following the consistent drop in his scores.Īdam was exposed to music from an early age and was influenced by the rapper Snoop Dogg whose 1993 album, Doggystyle did the magic of initiating him into the hip-hop scene. Adam22 attended Nashua High School South and was enrolled at a community college in Massachusetts though he left after a year. His father was arrested when Adam was in sixth grade for a white-collar crime and released when he was 16.
Though he is now famous, he had a less than stellar home life with his mother who was a librarian, a social worker father and one sister. Named Adam John Grandmaison, he got his pseudonym Adam22 after he started his website. He was born on November 24, 1983, in Nashua, New Hampshire where he was also raised.
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