Kyd Sway on Being a Failed Soundcloud Rapper, Battling Addiction, Becoming a Viral Star & More

30:24We all deal with stuff, black, white, rich, poor, from the hood, from the fucking suburbs, bro. Death is real. We lose someone that hits the same. You know what I mean? So I'm just learning how to navigate through life sober, not relying on a substance to be happy, and just understanding that the world isn't out to get me.

30:41Adam22:So can you go to a house party where everybody's getting loaded and you're just having a good time hanging out? Or is that the kind of thing you need to avoid? In the beginning, I'm going to be straight up. I was a straight hermit crab first 10 months of getting sober from alcohol. I had to be. And it's funny, you know, because I was a drug addict and I have been an alcoholic. And the hardest thing for me was getting sober off the drink. Really? Simply because it's literally everywhere we go. Gas stations, grocery stores, like at my house, literally back where I'm from is anywhere. Liquors are everywhere, bro.

31:07And all you need is your fucking ID. So that shit was so hard to get sober from, bro. Like the pills, I just cut off the plug, you know, kill the script. I'm done. You know, it was a little bit easier for me. And I know that sounds weird because drugs is very hard as well.

31:19Adam22:But it's like, you know, if you don't want to be around. Yeah, yeah. You don't have to see it. It's not in your face, out of sight, out of mind. Alcohol, bro, it's socially acceptable. So for me, I had to literally just, I was going to work, coming home, making videos, going to bed. That's it. For 10 straight months, that's all I would do because I wasn't strong enough to be around it. Now, you know, I can be around. I'm good. But what kind of videos were you making at that time? Because I'm interested in how your content sort of evolved to the state that it is now. Yeah, when I started getting the liver problems, you know what I'm saying?

31:47And it was nothing crazy. At the time, it's like stage one failure. It's nothing crazy, but I wasn't educated on that, so it scared my mouth. I can't take myself out the game. I have a daughter to be here for. I'm not going to go out like that. I'm literally nobody. I've done nothing with my life but be a drug addict, an alcoholic, a loser, somebody who's just allowed the world to take over who he was, and I can't go out like that. So I started making my sobriety videos, bro, and I never, ever could have thought it would be anything. It's not big by any means, but to me, it's fucking crazy. Everywhere I go in my city, people know who I am.

32:18Adam22:and they take pictures and 350k on tiktok or something i don't even post on tiktok yeah i don't that's not you no i do now that's i had a million on tiktok before i got banned i had another 500k it's just because um i was like i was drinking at the time so i guess i don't know i'll get reported a lot i don't know that was what i was thinking when i was looking at it like tiktok typically i'm pretty sure that they like they know what bottles are alcohol bottles and they'll ban you for that but i see people that you know pop off on there that that were doing the same thing and they're still doing and i'm just like there's like cut the activist johnny sibs there's people on there that'd be making drinks and just you know talking about alcohol all the time and never get taken down but i definitely would have had well over a million followers if they never deleted my thing but we're gonna hit a million on instagram we're at 700 000 and that's only i started posting in january of 2025 so it's all fairly new like i literally had a couple thousand followers on instagram and then it went yeah and then it went to what it is and just from my my silly little videos bro and it just i'm on no jumper right now just from you know making drinks and pouring them out but it's bigger than that it's the it's what i'm trying to put out there into the world it's never too late to change it's never too late to recorrect the wrongs you've done in your life if you want to be anything you can you just you know one's better than anyone else we all have the ability to make what we want of life you feel me for sure how do you uh keep it like or or in terms of like the videos like how do you keep it interesting how do you because it's kind of like you could just do the same thing over and over but at some point you gotta like that's where i'm at right now bro for real i'm just like i don't know what else i can do to continue you know that's why this thing is this means a lot for me bro it's a big blessing i've never been on like local podcast nothing and for my first one to be no jump bro it's super sick bro it's like it's a huge blessing i just want you to know man it's like not like fanned out or anything but i grew up on this shit bro and it's it's like i respect everything you've done and what you've built bro it's amazing to be here it's something so surreal to me you know so um yeah but i never never thought it would you know do anything bro never um people really rock with me and they want to see me stay sober whereas like I said before you know you're asking about high school I didn't have no one I was alone you know and I know it's just the internet or people could say like it's just strangers who but they really rock with me bro and they really support what I'm doing and like I was saying also bro I've never had a negative interaction no one ever tries to press me no one's like oh you're that fool from Instagram what's good you know because I'm not putting myself out there like that I'm just you know I want to help people and I'm sharing my story and they're navigating to that and I'm only being me nothing else you know I don't have money i don't make money from social media i'm still just a normal guy so so no money from social makers i don't think instagram they got like the reels bonus which i've never really i promise you bro absolutely zero dollars i have not made shit is it on tiktok i i was making like three four thousand a month but i was the thing was i was just reinvesting it because alcohol is expensive so at that time i was just you know that's when i was drinking everything so i was like i'm drinking for free but i'm getting paid to also make these videos and hundreds of hundreds of videos of me just getting f***ed up.

35:09That's what I was doing. And then that got cut when I got banned. And, you know, ever since then, no social media has paid.

35:14Adam22:That must have been depressing, though, to lose 3, 4K a month. It helps a lot, bro. Like I said, that to some people might not be anything. For me, where I'm from, I never grew up with it. You know, that was a lot for me on top of my normal job, which is, you know, I was chilling, you know. I was f***ing eating wherever I wanted, buying f***ing whatever kind of shoes I wanted. You know, it was a good time. But you haven't been able to get re-monetized on TikTok after that first time? No. I have one now. Like you said, it's almost at 400K, months it's because um i don't know what it is like i'll get the views it's just i'm not getting paid for them and it's like i'm not gonna put on all that work you know and now this i don't know if being lazy or not because i still do it for instagram and i don't get paid but over on instagram it's more so of i'm trying to actually help people and so i'm i'm in the dms i'm messaging people i'm thanking them for everything they do because they literally helped change my life and save me from something much more valuable than money you know that doesn't mean money ain't shit we can't take it you know they've actually helped me in a dark place just by being supportive So I try to take the time and make it, you know, my thing to show love back, you know.

36:11Adam22:But so when it comes to, have you tried YouTube shorts? I haven't. No, I've seen some fake pages of me on there, but I've never made my own and tried it out. I think I should. I mean, the money is not great, but it's like, you know. It's better than nothing. I feel like you can get, if you get a million views, you might get like a couple hundred bucks. Yes. Yeah, that's cool. It's not bad. Yeah. I mean, it costs me what, like 40 bucks to make one of these videos. If that, maybe like 20, 30 sometimes. Right. You know, so if I'm making that much of a profit, then that's all that matters. I'd be doing some shady shit if I were you.

36:38Adam22:I would take the same tequila bottle and fill it up with water. No, no, I have people doing that, you know, saying that. I'm like, nah, bro, I promise you. I'm really serious when it comes to my sobriety, man. Right. And I think it's a huge statement, like you said, when I'm just. Monster Energy. Everybody knows White Monster Zero Ultra. That's the OG. It kicked off this whole zero sugar energy drink thing. But Ultra is a whole lineup now. You've got Strawberry Dreams, Blue Hawaiian, Sunrise, and Vice Guava. And they all bring the monster energy punch. So if you've been living in the white can, branch out.

37:13Adam22:Ultra's got a flavor for every vibe. And every single one is zero sugar. Tap the banner to learn more. You know, pouring out the alcohol. Because that's not me. I don't need that shit. But I feel like you have this sort of method that you do where you start the video off with a crazy attention-getting statement. and then it goes into the rest of it. And then all this already is clickbait. Just looking the way I look, you know, could be clickbait to an extent, you know? So I know sometimes I'll be saying outlandish shit just for the views, but at the end of the day, the message is the same, you know?

37:42And the people that take the time to not just judge me off the appearance and they're actually understanding like what I'm about or just even, you know, give me a chance like you are just to, you know, share my little piece about who I am. You can see. When you show your tattoo. I'm not that kind of guy. I had full fucking sleeves and everything. My whole neck, my whole face. Everything was done before the black. and as I got sober off of alcohol in a weird way it became my therapy. I don't know if that sounds corny or whatever but it literally got me through just being able to maintain staying sober.

38:12Getting tattooed. Yeah just getting the blackout the blackout is the most painful f***ing shit I can ever, like I can't even explain so I have everything from the fingertips to the f***ing jugular he's holding me down I'm just like you see God. I mean it's bad enough getting tattooed

38:26Adam22:but then like to get the all black I'm just dragging it over and over You see God when you feel that kind of pain. And I was just like, oh, it's like it's a whole life experience for sure. Yeah. And I don't I don't pop pills or anything. But if I was going to, it would be getting tattooed. It was so bad. I'm such a when it comes to get tattoos. It's like I don't like it. And I'm a bro. I'm straight up. I had everything tattooed before. And so if I have a chance and my artist is cool with it, I'll use numbing cream sometimes now when I'm doing shit like the ribs or the stomach. Like, I don't care.

38:55I've already felt everywhere before without it. and just being up and young and just getting any tattoos i can so i already experienced all the pain in the head everything like all the face was no numbing shit so now when i do heavy sessions like black and put that shit on bro i remember like put that shit on me bro first time i went

39:10Adam22:to get tattooed and the guy was like hey i got some numbing cream you want it and i'd never even heard of it i'm like for real this is like a long time ago and i was like yeah i'll try it and i as soon as we started going i'm like what the fuck was i doing getting tattooed without this i'm I'm telling you, but then it's like a curse because in like three hours into the tattoo, it all comes and you're like, oh, and you feel it 10 times worse. But nah, I still do it. But what tattoos did you have initially that you wanted to get blacked out? I had like a Dragon Ball Z little sleeve on the half sleeve here.

39:37Just a bunch of shit that, you know, was just young and I didn't have any money at all. Just getting filled up wherever I could, you know. Not necessarily bad ink. You know, I had a cool portrait of a lion here. I had like prayer hands. It wasn't bad, but it just wasn't, you know, I don't know. So I just started to get blacked out. I didn't want to be that person anymore. I didn't want to see that dude in the mirror, if that makes sense. You know, I had like 20, 30 little face tattoos before the time.

39:59Adam22:I mean, tattooing is so crazy when you think about it. Because it's like, if I showed you a photo of you or me from 10 years ago, whatever shirt you're wearing probably is not a shirt that you would think was all that cool right now. But like when a girl goes and gets a chest piece like above her. Yeah. I mean, what are the odds that you're still going to think that that shit is dope 10 years from now? Now, people do the traditional tattoos largely because it's like, okay, this is the most classic thing that you could get. But, like, I mean, so many chicks, when I think about it, like, when I was 21, the girls I thought were super hot with chest pieces, I'm like, that shit probably looks so stupid now.

40:36No, thanks, bro. Dude, I'm no better.

40:38Adam22:Dude, I'm the first one to say, like, I do not think I look cool. I think I look ridiculous. Most days I wake up and I'm like, bro, what the did you do? Like, damn it, bro. Like, I wasn't that half bad looking before all the tattoos. You feel me? So I'm not like, I'd be adamant about telling, you know, people out there like, don't get face tattoos, bro. It really does affect your life. I'm blessed and I have a job because my resume is good. So I'm able to have, you know, a decent job and it doesn't affect me in that way. But if someone that doesn't have that, especially a younger person, it will fuck up your life.

41:04You know, yeah, just don't do it, bro. It's not something I walk around thinking I'm hard. No, I don't.

41:09Adam22:It's crazy. Like looking back at that Santa Clara era because it was like I was meeting a different kid with a crazy face tattoo like every week. Yeah. and there's some notable examples of like you know the the the Anne Frank face tattoo that really stands out fire yo that was crazy but then like you know I remember like going to Arnold with yeah shout out my boy I remember uh going to like Whole Foods with my girl and there's like two like kids with just hella face tattoos and they just they looked like Lil Xan wannabes and I'm just kind of looking at them and they're like looking at me and I'm just thinking like bro this the world is being taken over by these little f**kers but you don't really see it that much anymore no it was a fad for sure yeah yeah for sure and unfortunately i had so many of them that i tried getting some lasered off that shit hurts so bad it hurts so bad so i was like it let's just start covering them you know i'm too far deep now it's just i'm doing a bunch of tribal over it some we call it goth tribal i don't know made it up but okay just working on a bunch of just shit to cover the old ones and i'm not even halfway done it'll be a bunch of layers and layers and layers yeah it'll be something you know are you gonna black out like your whole i seen you have a bunch of like chest tattoos and shit.

42:14Adam22:You getting that blacked out too? The old ones? Oh, like on your chest, yeah? Oh, yeah, I'm working on, we're doing the whole torso, bro. So I'm working on the chest right now. Oh, shit. But you're going to cover up that head? No, I'm going to keep the Hanya mask. This is Japanese traditional right there. I'm going to keep this, black out all this, and then just, I have my whole back piece, like, you know, is blank. So we're working on something crazy sick. So I'm just going to be like, just blacked out everywhere and just have a dope ass leg pieces and fucking back and try to make it, you know, salvage as much as we can.

42:40you know i don't know where i'm going with it this is like a creation of my madness of just getting sober and just my life i don't know it's funny because somebody like mgk did like the same thing i was already on i just don't have money so i can't do it like as much as you know he just did it in a couple sessions because he's rich and he's able to do that i've been working on

42:55Adam22:mine for years you know i don't know what tattoos he had before but like him having been you know famous and rich like a long time ago probably had a bunch of gay ass tattoos that's what i'm saying yeah that's yeah i can relate to i have yeah i had a bunch of what do they call on pinterest you know i think that's what my sleeves beforehand were considered a bunch of just basic shit you know that anyone would get that wants a tattoo butterfly fucking sword a fucking heart with the name or something you know what i'm saying just basic ass shit yeah so i just wanted to cover that wasn't who i was anymore and like i said with the face tattoos i had so many little ones and that just reminded me of my like drug addict phase bro i just wanted to you know it's not that i look any better now but it's i don't see that that kid no more and you never became a weed smoker during all this no i don't i never really liked weed um and unfortunately never really helped me out like in ways that it does chills people out always made me super anxious super fucking paranoid and that's the only experience i've ever had with weed um you know i i hit the wax pen sometimes at night now and it does chill me out like i said like all this shit's new to me bro but everywhere I go I'm going to a grocery store I go to the gas station people like come up to me and they know in my town because it's so small it's not like content creator it's not like LA where it's just normal to see someone so they actually are surprised and they want pictures and that shit is cool and I'm appreciative to all those people out there man I love you guys you did help save my life but at the end of the day I'm still that you know very introverted person so I'm just figuring out a way to you know calm down and just be cool because my thought you know is growing up where I came from and everything it's like okay was that person out to get me you know now that they may think i have something i don't just because i have a following i don't have shit nothing in my life has changed monetarily wise you know nothing my life's the that's the weird thing about this short form content era is that it used to be like you would know somebody was a youtuber and they were making like a significant amount of money every month and now it's like with the short form shit you have to be gigantic to really be that profitable dude like fucking 100k back in like 2016 is like fucking you know 10k now you know what i mean or like or vice versa whatever it's like it was so like you're walking around with 100k back in 2016 people were like thinking you're the shit you know now nowadays 100k is like 10k 5k it's like nah it ain't nothing you know because it's so easy especially on tiktok that's the easiest shit to grow on yeah it's so easy bro it's so follower inflation it's yeah exactly it's all you literally need it's no secret sauce nothing just be consistent and post every single day no matter who says what that's it that's the that's it and then eventually it's gonna be somewhere you know bro i look back at our analytics from like 2017 2018 and there's so many factors but like okay number one there was no short form content so it's like if you were a lit youtuber like that was kind of it you know and then like in addition to that it was like i would interview a rapper and then that interview would keep getting views over and over over a long period of time and now that doesn't happen anywhere near as much a couple weeks maybe yeah and then it just tapers out and almost every like there's some interviews that still will do a decent amount of views but it's just the short form content just took away yeah no the long form content to such a crazy extent i'm still feel like i'm like figuring it out you know there'll be clips on yours that go way more viral just on short form like i see it on tiktok it's not even posted by you or your team or nothing and it's just getting millions and millions you know i'm saying and it's like you go to the interview and it's like damn like you know that shit kind of killed certain things in a way especially when it comes to youtube you know that used to be the only source so fucking okay i'm going here because i want to watch this you know now it's just everywhere and kids can blow up from being clippers and you know just posting shit about their favorite artist and they're getting rich off just posting an interview with someone yeah yeah it's just overkilled everything bro because it used to be that people clipped just to like grow their social media accounts and now people clip as a job like that's kind of and and as a result so good so good so good new markdowns up to 70 % off are at Nordstrom Rack stores now and that means so many new reasons to rack because I always find something amazing just so many good brands because there's always something new join the Nordic Club to unlock exclusive discounts shop new arrivals first and more plus buy online and pick up at your favorite rack store for free great brands great prices that's why you rack our shit unless it's like unbelievably obviously viral it's just not gonna really get clipped in the same way it's fucking strange that's why i have to say certain things sometimes when i do videos or just fucking you know that dark humor shit or just you know do something different that's it's just sad bro you can't just only be yourself and expect it to go anywhere i keep seeing like skate clips that will have text over the screen yeah and it'll say like a lot of it's gay shit it'll say yeah bro it'll say something about getting pegged the gay stuff will go crazy and then i'll have like you know 150 000 likes and it's just like it's like a dude doing a kickflip video bro and it's got a caption about that's it's it's kind of funny or like shocking like saying some weird gay shit and then like somehow that just works now i'm like what what is this what what has become of this bro i'll notice that especially when i was first starting to actually go viral like on instagram when it came to that is i was noticing like when i started my videos I'll boom I'll slam the cup of ice it goes everywhere I'm hey I'm a recovering alcoholic I'm this many days sober doing that kind of video compared to boom I'm a recovering alcoholic and I also like like you know I'm saying just saying shit like that that goes way more viral just the first couple seconds mean everything to it you know so and it's just it's crazy it's just such a toxic thing at the same time you know because views and everything like I'm it still blows me away I looked at the analytics at the end of 2025 I had 650 million views just on Instagram for the year that's crazy for me like bro i've never done anything like with my life in terms of social media so almost you know a billion close to just in one year off of views is crazy to me but have you thought about like starting a youtube channel and doing like you know i don't know how the algorithm works on any of these things like i said i just got lucky because instagram kind of flipped and kind of made it like a tiktok to where the short shit's blowing up on there as well so that kind of i was like okay i understand tiktok i'm gonna just bring it over here the last time i got banned on TikTok I was like I'm just trying on here you know so no yeah I mean I was looking at uh for some reason I came across like some old Instagram posts of mine from like 2018 yeah and I was saying to my girl I'm like how the f*** was I getting 50 ,000 likes on a random shitty photo of me in 2018 yeah and she was like don't feel bad because everybody was so got so much more engagement at that time because think about the only thing to show you was your friends posts yeah and now when i go to instagram i barely see my friends posts i see people i've never met everyone wants to be a creator or something that like you know what i mean uh or an influence or whatever you want to call it everyone it's so competitive so it's it's it's very hard and i notice a lot too when they switch the algorithm bro it's not about how many followers you have that's more so like a ego boost it's like it's cool to have but it's not really uh it doesn't really you know go into like hand in hand with how many views or likes you get it's completely random the internet's random now like a video will pop off get a million in a day and the next one i post will get like getting 100 000 you know views and i'm just like what it's the same video i was just looking at this you know what i'm saying talk that i uh am aware of and like you know he's got three million followers and he'll have a video here and there that gets a couple million views but then in between that'll have a lot of tiktok to get like 10 15k or exactly bro so that's why i noticed too i'm like bro it's not all about that because you can get you know lost in this shit you know it is cool to go viral and it does pump me up like i'm gonna wake up tomorrow make five videos but that's not what it's about if i can even help you know five ten people i've already done my job and i'm you know if this gets deleted tomorrow i have to be happy with what i've done already you know because i never thought i would be a person that would ever be an influence to anybody being where i came from jog at it going through alcohol abuse all that shit i never thought i would inspire anybody to want to get sober or help them i've had people come up to me while eating or being with my mom shopping whatever and say i've changed their life with my videos my stupid ass videos that doesn't even make sense to me bro it's not me it's god put me in position and i'm trying to you know just you know do whatever i can with it and i've already done more than i've ever imagined so i've already won you know what i mean i don't care if this goes anywhere if it does it's awesome i'd like to do for a living go and do motivational speaking and shit like that but if nothing happens for me i'm already happy i feel like you could do a lot of different things like i feel like you should try to start figuring out what your 10 minute YouTube video type content would look like.

51:13Adam22:And I also, have you ever thought about boxing? I only say that because I'm kind of like associated with this now. And it's like a real opportunity. You probably know a lot better than me. Brother, my 16 year old brother and my 21 year old brother back at home. Love you guys. He told me, he's like, bro, you got to find a way to get into that Aiden Ross boxing thing. I was like, bro, all right, I'm going to try to bring it up to him when I get on there. I'll try to think of a way. I was like, bro, maybe I'll call out Charleston White. You know what I'm saying? Let's see the hands, bro. They're trying to put Charleston in.

51:40big change right now. But like, no, just, I think that would be awesome or just for more exposure or anything like that. I'm not a fighter by any means, but I'll just have a good time and I'd love to do something like that. Maybe take both the Island Boys at once or some shit, you know? You know what I'm saying? You know what I'm saying? Or a white KO Cyrus was good, you know what I'm saying? It's all love at the end of the day, bro. But I think, you know, just being in a space is somewhere I never thought I could get. And once now I'm getting my toes in the water, it's smaller than I thought.

52:07You know, the circle, once you're in it, it's kind of like, oh, you know i'm i'm on no fucking jumper bro and then you've you know you're fucking goat in this shit you know so i'm saying like there's so many you know ways you can get into it no because you

52:17Adam22:know when i really started thinking about that was when i was at the aiden ross fight and you know he's introducing some of the fights on the undercard and it's like this dude is from xqc's community so like xqc one of the biggest streamers yeah he's not gonna box but he's got like a dude who's like a really legit boxer that's part of his whole little scene and then he's got like another guy and it's like oh this guy's from stable ronaldo's i'm not trying to fight someone who knows how to fight like that but i just started thinking i'm like like maybe that's what i need to do is like have like the no jumper community of boxers grow that so i can help them to like get more into that world you know yeah that could really help like grow a lot of people's careers like everybody yeah i don't really know how i would make money off of it necessarily but whatever i think it would just be sick it would just be cool and revamp some shit you know get Get some motion, you know.

53:06But, yeah, it's funny that you brought that up. My littlest brother, he'd be tripping out that I'm on no jumper, bro. He's like, you definitely got to get on the boxing thing. You can do it, man. I was like, I'll try. You know, I'm not like a clout chaser or anything, but I'm not, you know, like I said, I don't move like that. But I believe things happen for a reason. And if, you know, you're the one who brought it up, so I always figure I'll open up and tell you about it. You have a lot of fights over the years? I have a lot of what? Fights? No, that's the thing. I've gotten my ass swept when I was a little kid a couple of times by like bullies and shit.

53:31Like I said, you know, middle school, high school and things like that. But I was never. Now I've what one kid's ass bad. OK, I'll tell you this story, bro. I was like I was like 20. Me and my family were just kicking it in the garage in our house. Literally, we're just, you know, having a good time. It's a Friday night, you know, chilling. My mom and dad, just family, you know, and I'm just in there and some van pulls up, bro. And this is at the time I was trying to do SoundCloud. I was, you know, just trying to make something of myself. I just dropped out of college and just trying to find myself at 20 years old.

53:57you know you know how that goes you're not gonna make the best decisions but anyways the van pulls up and he's like hey your kids sway i was like what the fuck i literally have no followers like a thousand at the time like yeah what's up and then i go up and he's hella cool to me and i just dap him up i'm like what's good bro he's like i like your music i with you and i was like oh that is lit dude i didn't see his homie got out the side of the fucking sucker punches me in the back of the head yeah no reason and while i'm talking to his friend in front of my family's house bro So I was like, oh.

54:23And then my dad hopped out. He f***ing, you know, goes in the house, hops out with a baseball bat. He's all getting in the truck. Because these fools drove off. And I was like, no, no, please. And we found these fools. And he made me beat his ass. And he's holding the bat the whole time because there's three of them. He's like, bro, any of you jump in, I'm going to beat the f*** out of you. It's one-on-one with the dude who, you know, sucker punched my son right now.

54:42Adam22:And they really just did this just on some cloud chasing. I don't even know because I didn't have nothing. I was just, you know, just a kid just trying to, you know, just make stupid videos like I do now. Sometimes I do s***. Like I chug raw eggs and I just do silly viral shit sometimes now. And I was trying to do that back then. I was trying to learn how it works and everything. And it just, it was so off guard, but like I said, I didn't want to, and I'm not a fighter. And my dad, you know, you made me do that. And I beat the kid's ass. And afterwards I hugged him because I'm just not like that, you know, but he's like, no, he can't, you can't have someone come to our house and disrespect you in your house.

55:10You know what I mean? I'm like, so that's the only like real, real fight that I've actually been in. But no, I'm not, I'm not much of a, you know, a troublemaker as a kid. Like I said, I've never been to jail or anything.

55:19Adam22:my whole life i'm 30 years old so interesting you know for sure um shit so okay do you have a girlfriend at this point or no i've been you know like i said i've only loved that one person in that way you know there's been others after that and i've tried to but i've noticed i'm too you know if i'm not ready and healed as a human being or as a man it's not going to affect anyone in the right way when it comes to relationship and uh getting older i realized that and i still am just you know at this point i've been hurt so many more years than i've actually you know dated the mother of my child like i've been affected longer than i've ever way longer than i've ever been with her that's how it like really hurt me you still communicate with her no i haven't spoken to her in years but only in court is when i you know i'm not supposed to talk about i have nothing bad to say about her by any means you know she did what's best for our daughter at the time it's just i hope she sees that i'm trying to be a better person now and uh my daughter's my everything i just want to be a good influence for her and just be someone she's proud of when i'm you know yeah When it's all said and done, that's the goal.

56:19That's all for my daughter, man. That's it. But I hope, you know, one day things go with that. Like I said, I have no animosity. She did what's best for her at the time, and that's what it is. Yeah. So I have to deal with those consequences, and that's, you know, this is my karma.

56:31Adam22:I respect it. I mean, I'm sure she'll understand as she gets older and shit. No, for sure. I just hope she never has to, you know, understand. Like me, like I said, I was in the court shit as a kid. It really f***s you up, you know, seeing your mom after years and years for the first time, but you have to sit in front of an agency who's writing everything down. That shit, dude, that made me a weird kid for the lack of better terms, excuse me. It's hard. I don't ever want my daughter to have to go through that. She's only five right now, and she's still at the point where she's young enough to still, I'm daddy to her, if I'm allowed to be back.

57:06She's still young enough, and it just hurts because all those years that I haven't gotten to be a part of her life, I'll never get back. But like I said, that's my karma, and I believe God has a plan for everything and if this is what it's took to get me stronger and someone who can take care of her and provide for her and actually be somebody for my daughter then that's what it is

57:24Adam22:so no that's heavy shit but i feel like you're you're definitely gonna get back into a better role oh i'm way better and it's only been i'm about to be a year and a half sober off the drink on uh february 13th so it's still new you know i still have a long ways to go i'm not sitting here saying i'm a good person by any means i've done a lot of dirtbag shit on you know when you're a jog addict that's what comes with it you know you can't be a good person living that kind of life so i still have a long ways to go especially my relationship with god but i'm working on it that's all we can do as humans bro just start you know sure man that's it um anybody you want to thank anything we need to know about what you got planned or anything like that um by the way i like aesthetically oh yeah this looks the big gulp the buzz ball and i didn't know if i was a lot of smoking here so i haven't smoked uh you can do it all right but yo what what's uh i should ask that at first what's your relationship with nicotine at this point has that always been a thing or yeah i smoked since i was a teenager but as i got sober i'm smoking packs a day now it's like only thing i have left i don't be drinking energy drinks really nothing like i said i only hit the wax pen at night sometimes like it's rare a couple days of the week just to chill me out but i literally do nothing at all i've been off nating and tobacco for like two months oh for real god damn it feels good yeah just breathing i want to get to that point like my brother was saying he's like bro you got to do on the boxing thing you're gonna have to quit smoking you're gonna gas out bro and I was like yeah it's true um I don't know I think it'll be you know my like you asking excuse me what my plans are for the next you know step I really want to you know focus on trying to live a fully clean life cut out the nicotine try to exercise more and work out just try to do that whole thing I've never been like you know ever since college I was an athlete I was doing that kind of life I want to get back to that you know treat my body better because I've put in years on it that you know just by being a drug addict f***ing up my liver with the alcohol like I need to start you know i want to be here i want to live life i don't want to take myself out the game bro so that's a big part of it i don't know but in terms of content i don't even know man i'm just taking it day by day i'm you know doing little things like side missions uh last uh two weeks ago i got flown out this is a crazy story i got flown out to vegas second time ever being to vegas uh alex flew me out there to be in a music video i'm like it's so random you know what i'm saying just random shit like that's happening i was like this is so cool and i got there and i didn't know what to expect because like i said you know i'm not from that world of you know content creation and all this so it's all new to me and being in vegas you know this is my first time really going out and being sober and being around it and seeing if i'm okay other people are getting up and i'm not and it was you know it was way better than what i expected i didn't know if i was gonna go out there and she's gonna try to get at me or it's gonna be like that kind of vibe everyone was treating me like one of them but it was so cool like yeah it was it was tough bro we were just walking around like he the shawnee shout out to the shawnee man he's dope he uh he just treated me like one of them he you know they got me a hotel but at the end of the night when the music video was done he's like bro just crash at the house but you're cool and i was like that made me feel like you know like messed up yeah just just have friendships and shit like that but that's my whole goal for 2026 man do a bunch of side missions i'm on no jumper the loop on the alex music career i didn't watch your stuff bro it was so random to me like she was like you want to be in a video and it was like on a thursday and i'm like i have work tomorrow like i work a regular job and she's like it's tomorrow just fucking come i was like ah okay So she booked my flight and I was like, you know what?

1:00:32I had my little brother cover my shift at work and, you know, I made it happen. It was, it was fun. And I was really, you know, just FaceTime my mom when I got out there and I was like, dude, this is, you know, they live in like a little mini mansion of arcade games and fucking hella like shit in their house that I've never seen graffiti walls. I'm like, this is so cool. We don't have this back home. I was like, I was so glad my mom like made me do it because I was like, bro, this is cool. Like I'll never have experienced that unless, you know, I just said, let's do it. You know, it was so random though.

1:00:58and then like with you guys you know reaching out to me i was just like so juice it was so random like why i'm not that interested i feel like i'm supposed to be thanking somebody who told me to

1:01:07Adam22:interview you but i can't remember who suggested it maybe i figured it out i'll forget but it's shout out to whoever that is man much love it's amazing i can't believe i'm on this podcast bro i'm excited it's so cool bro i'm excited to read the comments on this one for sure yeah i mean just all from you know just being me and that's the first time in my life where i was able to be me and people like with it you know like i'm just you know i don't play a character i'd say funny shit sometimes but that's just me i'm a funny guy like i say that the type of videos i'll be making i'll be saying jokes like that at my work all the time you know the gay shit all that like i'm just like that you know it's just it's cool to see that people actually accept me for me and they're rocking with it no matter how big i get or whatever i fall off i don't really care like it's just all fun man to grow up being a shy kid who got beat up a lot and you know didn't even have confidence to fucking talk at all to being this for sure it's all good you got the right attitude man yeah hey it was dope meeting you bro it's nice meeting you brother thank you so much hey and uh i don't know maybe something around the office is gonna want to finish this off yes sir that'll be slumped boy shit yo kid sway man i appreciate you coming through dog thank you so much sway you ain't got the answers you guys you ain't got the answers sway you ain't got the answers shout out kanye man yo all right check my boy out on instagram and all that uh like comment and subscribe and we'll be back real real soon no jumper coolest podcast in the world peace out