Most of the original No Jumper writing happened in the first six months. For a while there, it was becoming more and more successful. Danny Brown was a big fan of No Jumper; [A$AP] Yams always supported what we had going. But I had some stuff going on personally and I drifted away from writing in 2012 and left it up to other people who were contributing. It sort of fizzled out. I wasn’t really a fan of what I was seeing online. I never really felt like a lot of the people writing about rap were covering it because they were actually into rap. A lot of people didn’t feel genuine about it to me, and the idea of people moving in and using rap to benefit their own career bugged me. I also wasn’t prepared for the criticism that No Jumper was receiving. I think one writer I really respected called it the “rap version of Huffington Post.” I guess some people thought it was gimmicky but, to me, we were just covering shit that other people weren’t looking at.

Around 2012, Adam was talking about how he wanted to take No Jumper in a different direction. He was set on moving me out to California to write for the site full-time. I was interested for sure but nothing really came of it. I think it was late 2015 when he came to me and said that he wanted to do this podcast with BMX riders and use the No Jumper name. I wasn’t doing anything with it at the time, and this podcast wasn’t supposed to be a music thing at all, so I said that’s fine. It didn’t seem like it was going to be a continuation of what we’d worked on before. I think the first rapper he interviewed was Xavier Wulf and that led to him interviewing more rappers. He came to me again at that time and said he wanted to do a writing side of No Jumper and, of course, that never came about.

I messaged him last year and was like, “I’m happy for your success but it bugs me to see the name I came up with used for all this shit.” He’s selling T-shirts for $40 with a name I came up with on it and he’s not even acknowledging that I was ever a part of it. And he was like, “Yeah, I understand, man. It’s like being kicked out of the band before they’re successful but it’s just a name — there’s not really anything you can do about it.” So, I just let that sit and breathe. Then he brought the No Jumper festival like 20 minutes away from where I live and didn’t send out an invite; I started to feel more personally disrespected.

Looking at it now, I feel somewhat grateful for the fact that I’m not involved in No Jumper, considering everything around it. I’m grateful that I’m not partners with Adam anymore. The last time I spoke to him, he told me I was making up lies and trying use Yams to push my agenda or something like that. I told him to enjoy the celebrity while it lasts and he was like, “It’s gonna last forever, watch me.” And, of course, I’m watching now.

