October 29, 2025 • 8 mins
Artist & Influencer Adamn Killa stopped but the Cruz Show & talked about touring with Chance the Rapper, being homeless even after going on tour & so much more.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
What's good.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
It's goods muscle.
Speaker 3 (00:04):
You're checking out the Cruise Show podcast. Make sure it's subscribed.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
Right ahead of the usc usc usc is going down.
Speaker 1 (00:12):
It's going down. You're going into the crowd, into the crowd.
Every time.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
They're going crazy.
Speaker 1 (00:16):
They're going crazy.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
No security, no security.
Speaker 3 (00:19):
Yeah, I was just asking them, what's your Security's like, No,
I'm out here, no security.
Speaker 4 (00:23):
Oh oh yeah, well we have security. We have Yeah,
we got a good friend. That's right forever being. How
was the Palladium show A Chance to rapp?
Speaker 1 (00:34):
It was great? Shout out Chance to rapper? Whole tour
was great. I went in the crowd every show, every
shot ran through the crowd, went up on balconis, was
performing in the crowd. People ain't seen nothing like it.
Speaker 3 (00:43):
Yeah yeah yeah, Now does the house or does chance go?
Speaker 1 (00:46):
Yo?
Speaker 3 (00:47):
Just be careful out there, like maybe you shouldn't or
is everybody just to go now?
Speaker 1 (00:51):
They know if they say I shouldn't, I gonna still
do it, so they don't say that, but they'd be like,
be careful, yeah, and then him he'd be like, you
gotta stop going without security. Some times I'm like because
it'd be like four thousand people bro, going crazy, going crazy.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
And hands everywhere in appropriately.
Speaker 1 (01:08):
Not yet, but they've been grabbing my head, I mean
that type of stuff. But I'm like, you got to
feel their energy.
Speaker 2 (01:13):
That's right.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
I'm just happy. I'll make people that happy.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
Nah, for sure, that's great. That's what it's about.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
Nah.
Speaker 3 (01:19):
He was you know, I was talking to him in
the hallway and he was like, I'm happy. I'm like, Bro,
how many people get to say I'm happy?
Speaker 1 (01:23):
Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
Yeah, not a lot of people.
Speaker 1 (01:26):
I'm just happy. I'm happy.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
Yeah, where did this come from?
Speaker 1 (01:30):
Just I've been doing music for fifteen years and this
is like, in the last four months, it's been like
the most growth my career has ever seen. So I'm
just happy. From Chicago, from Chicago, born and raised, Roseland
that's right. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
What do you make of l A?
Speaker 1 (01:47):
I like l A. I used to live out here too.
I lived in Van Nuys, Yeah, I lived in Vents.
I lived in in Englewood. I lived in High Park.
Who was it that's right, Yeah, right by Nipsey's store.
And then I lived in Newport Beach. I lived over
in LA Like as an adult, I moved out here.
Speaker 2 (02:08):
For sure, Yo. What's the best and worst part of
this journey?
Speaker 1 (02:11):
Uh? The best part is like I've seen the bottom
of it, so now I feel happy, Like I feel
like if I didn't go like that low, I wouldn't
be as happy right now because I see like how
it could go. And then like the worst part probably
like it was this one time I remember I went
on the tour. I was on tour in Europe. I
came back, had to sleep in my car because I
(02:32):
ain't making no money off the tour because it was
my own tour and the shows did good and stuff,
but I just wasn't at the point where I was profiting,
so I was doing it just to like see my fans.
And I literally got off tour Europe, you know, a
couple hundred fans at each show as an independent artist,
smaller artist, and then coming home and having a sleep
(02:52):
in my car for two months. That was crazy.
Speaker 3 (02:55):
That's a shock.
Speaker 1 (02:56):
Yeah, that was in like twenty eighteen. It's very sobering, right, yeah, yeah,
I don't even think I talked about that before, is
that right?
Speaker 2 (03:03):
Very humbling coming off a tour. You have that high,
people going crazy.
Speaker 1 (03:06):
People taking pictures with you.
Speaker 3 (03:08):
You're taking pictures, right, you're making people feel good, and
then you have to go to sleep in your car.
Speaker 1 (03:12):
Yeah, slept in my car for two months in La Yeah.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
Where would you shower and eat.
Speaker 1 (03:17):
At somebody house? I knew they would let me showering there.
Speaker 3 (03:20):
That's right. Yeah, you can also shout at the gym.
Speaker 1 (03:23):
A lot of people don't.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
See that though. They see the thing. They think you're
a superstar n.
Speaker 1 (03:29):
These followers, but.
Speaker 2 (03:30):
They don't see what you've been through to get to where.
Speaker 1 (03:32):
You are now. Yeah. No, they don't see it. They
don't see it because it took fifteen years to get
to the point I'm at, and I've been homeless.
Speaker 3 (03:39):
Saw that while sleeping in your car, living in your car?
How did you hype yourself up? I don't say to yourself.
Speaker 1 (03:46):
I mean I just knew at one point I was
going to do good. I never like, even at those points,
I never thought like, oh, my life isn't going to
go good. I just knew it was like a point
in my life I was at at that moment and
I knew at some point it was going to go good.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
Could you have gone back home and reset?
Speaker 1 (04:01):
Nah? No, not really, because I tried to do that,
and I lie, what happened? You know, everybody family ain't
the same, you know the fact. Yeah, I'm from the hood.
In my family, most of my family is broke, so
like they don't even even if they want to help,
they can't.
Speaker 2 (04:18):
They can't.
Speaker 3 (04:18):
That's right, that's right, because they're trying to figure out
survival on their own.
Speaker 2 (04:22):
Yea, do they understand what you're doing?
Speaker 1 (04:24):
Yeah? Now they like this is crazy. They like they
don't understand it, like because they a lot of them
they ain't seen me because I've been so busy. And
then I coming up with them and then we out
to eat and it's like like we'll go to like
I don't know, somewhere random and it'll be like one
hundred people come up to me and they like and
it'd be like everybody there start what they doing. Like
my stepmom cursed out some kids. I'm like, you can't
(04:45):
do that, Like like they just happy to see me
because I because I went to my sisters she had
a track meet. She's still in high school. I went
to her high school and all the kids was acting crazy.
And this was a couple of months ago. This went
like before I'm even at the point I'm at now.
It was like when it starts and she really wasn't
used to it. It's like they screaming and all this.
They like. She was like, he's just here trying to
(05:06):
see his sister. And I'm like, you got to understand that.
They just happy to see me, like they never seen
me before. They loved me, like.
Speaker 3 (05:12):
You watch you and now you're standing in front of them,
so they're freaking out.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
Yeah, I had her apologize to them because what she say.
She said, sorry, Yeah.
Speaker 3 (05:22):
It's like my bad, I'm just protecting my baby.
Speaker 1 (05:24):
Yeah, it was my stepmam. She was just like some people,
especially older people, they don't really know how to react
to that type of thing.
Speaker 3 (05:32):
And you're part of this new celebrity, right, this viral star.
Speaker 2 (05:35):
Yeah, viral celebrity. What's that like?
Speaker 1 (05:37):
Man, it's different because I feel like, yeah, it is
new because like I mean, I get just on social media.
I get over five hundred million views a month, so
like I'm one of the biggest people on the internet.
So it's kind of even though it took fifteen years,
it kind of seems like quick. And then like, especially
(05:57):
at the rate that I'm growing, it seems really cool
and I'm just happy. But it's definitely different because my
face is like bigger than my music now, even though
my every video is to my song is like the
amount of people that know my face is crazy. Like
I looked at my analytics and it said I reached
like nine hundred million individual people like not views, like people,
(06:19):
so like actual people people on one app. So on
one app. I know for a fact, nine hundred million
people have seen me.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
It's crazy.
Speaker 3 (06:26):
How how you have a bigger audience than most networks.
Speaker 1 (06:30):
Yeah, that's why they pay me.
Speaker 2 (06:34):
That's right, let's go what they paying you? Man, They're
paying you good.
Speaker 1 (06:38):
Yeah yeah.
Speaker 3 (06:39):
I mean you're not in your car obviously you're doing well.
You're saving your money. Are you good with money?
Speaker 1 (06:44):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (06:44):
Now I am viral money man. I mean you can
blow a bag fast.
Speaker 1 (06:48):
Yeah. No, I'm just you know, staying humble and just relaxing.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
Buying boots and leather jackets.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
I mean I didn't even buy his jacket. I got
it for free, right, Yeah, but the I bought the
boots too. But yeah, loved your boots. Yeah. Shout out
of Coila Ra. She was very nice. She's nice. She's
very nice.
Speaker 2 (07:05):
Yeah, I saw you doing the splits in the hallway.
Speaker 1 (07:06):
Yeah, I'm trying to get the splits. I feel like
in the next year, I'm gonna be able to do
a split. Yeah, I'm gonna try. That's one of my goals.
Speaker 2 (07:15):
That's right.
Speaker 3 (07:16):
That's hard, dog man. I've never tried, and Nord you know,
I don't want to try.
Speaker 1 (07:21):
I've never done splits before.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
What is it with the splits?
Speaker 1 (07:26):
I just started doing it one day because it was
kind of comfortable, and I was like, you know, I
should just try to like actually do a split.
Speaker 3 (07:31):
Yeah, because that's how you were standing, Like that's how
you normally stand.
Speaker 1 (07:34):
Yeah, that's how I stand. I just want to, yeah,
do it. That's a couple more feet down. Yeah, Because
then I started doing it when I was like taking
pictures with fans, just being funny, and I was like,
you know, I should just start trying to actually do
a split. Yeah. So I'm gonna see.
Speaker 2 (07:53):
Yeah, that's right.
Speaker 1 (07:53):
We'll tap back in in a year and you.
Speaker 2 (07:55):
Got to come up, man. We got to play music
next time too, man.
Speaker 1 (07:58):
Yeah. Yeah, falling Out Now following by Damn Kill Out Now,
and then I got another song called I'm Up Dropping
next month, I'll send it to you.
Speaker 2 (08:05):
That's right, killer man, Yo, come here any time.
Speaker 1 (08:07):
Man.
Speaker 2 (08:08):
Congratulations Man, Now, I see you next month.
Speaker 1 (08:10):
I'm gonna be back next Month's right.
Speaker 2 (08:11):
You come back next month.
Speaker 1 (08:12):
I'll come back every time. I'm in La. I'm finna
come here. All right, we're here, Yeah I will.
Speaker 4 (08:18):
Hey Jacking Rich from The Cruise Show.
Speaker 2 (08:19):
Thanks for listening to The Cruise Show podcast. To make
sure to subscribe and here auto download so you don't
miss an episode.
Speaker 4 (08:24):
So so
What's good.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
It's goods muscle.
Speaker 3 (00:04):
You're checking out the Cruise Show podcast. Make sure it's subscribed.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
Right ahead of the usc usc usc is going down.
Speaker 1 (00:12):
It's going down. You're going into the crowd, into the crowd.
Every time.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
They're going crazy.
Speaker 1 (00:16):
They're going crazy.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
No security, no security.
Speaker 3 (00:19):
Yeah, I was just asking them, what's your Security's like, No,
I'm out here, no security.
Speaker 4 (00:23):
Oh oh yeah, well we have security. We have Yeah,
we got a good friend. That's right forever being. How
was the Palladium show A Chance to rapp?
Speaker 1 (00:34):
It was great? Shout out Chance to rapper? Whole tour
was great. I went in the crowd every show, every
shot ran through the crowd, went up on balconis, was
performing in the crowd. People ain't seen nothing like it.
Speaker 3 (00:43):
Yeah yeah yeah, Now does the house or does chance go?
Speaker 1 (00:46):
Yo?
Speaker 3 (00:47):
Just be careful out there, like maybe you shouldn't or
is everybody just to go now?
Speaker 1 (00:51):
They know if they say I shouldn't, I gonna still
do it, so they don't say that, but they'd be like,
be careful, yeah, and then him he'd be like, you
gotta stop going without security. Some times I'm like because
it'd be like four thousand people bro, going crazy, going crazy.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
And hands everywhere in appropriately.
Speaker 1 (01:08):
Not yet, but they've been grabbing my head, I mean
that type of stuff. But I'm like, you got to
feel their energy.
Speaker 2 (01:13):
That's right.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
I'm just happy. I'll make people that happy.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
Nah, for sure, that's great. That's what it's about.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
Nah.
Speaker 3 (01:19):
He was you know, I was talking to him in
the hallway and he was like, I'm happy. I'm like, Bro,
how many people get to say I'm happy?
Speaker 1 (01:23):
Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
Yeah, not a lot of people.
Speaker 1 (01:26):
I'm just happy. I'm happy.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
Yeah, where did this come from?
Speaker 1 (01:30):
Just I've been doing music for fifteen years and this
is like, in the last four months, it's been like
the most growth my career has ever seen. So I'm
just happy. From Chicago, from Chicago, born and raised, Roseland
that's right. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
What do you make of l A?
Speaker 1 (01:47):
I like l A. I used to live out here too.
I lived in Van Nuys, Yeah, I lived in Vents.
I lived in in Englewood. I lived in High Park.
Who was it that's right, Yeah, right by Nipsey's store.
And then I lived in Newport Beach. I lived over
in LA Like as an adult, I moved out here.
Speaker 2 (02:08):
For sure, Yo. What's the best and worst part of
this journey?
Speaker 1 (02:11):
Uh? The best part is like I've seen the bottom
of it, so now I feel happy, Like I feel
like if I didn't go like that low, I wouldn't
be as happy right now because I see like how
it could go. And then like the worst part probably
like it was this one time I remember I went
on the tour. I was on tour in Europe. I
came back, had to sleep in my car because I
(02:32):
ain't making no money off the tour because it was
my own tour and the shows did good and stuff,
but I just wasn't at the point where I was profiting,
so I was doing it just to like see my fans.
And I literally got off tour Europe, you know, a
couple hundred fans at each show as an independent artist,
smaller artist, and then coming home and having a sleep
(02:52):
in my car for two months. That was crazy.
Speaker 3 (02:55):
That's a shock.
Speaker 1 (02:56):
Yeah, that was in like twenty eighteen. It's very sobering, right, yeah, yeah,
I don't even think I talked about that before, is
that right?
Speaker 2 (03:03):
Very humbling coming off a tour. You have that high,
people going crazy.
Speaker 1 (03:06):
People taking pictures with you.
Speaker 3 (03:08):
You're taking pictures, right, you're making people feel good, and
then you have to go to sleep in your car.
Speaker 1 (03:12):
Yeah, slept in my car for two months in La Yeah.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
Where would you shower and eat.
Speaker 1 (03:17):
At somebody house? I knew they would let me showering there.
Speaker 3 (03:20):
That's right. Yeah, you can also shout at the gym.
Speaker 1 (03:23):
A lot of people don't.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
See that though. They see the thing. They think you're
a superstar n.
Speaker 1 (03:29):
These followers, but.
Speaker 2 (03:30):
They don't see what you've been through to get to where.
Speaker 1 (03:32):
You are now. Yeah. No, they don't see it. They
don't see it because it took fifteen years to get
to the point I'm at, and I've been homeless.
Speaker 3 (03:39):
Saw that while sleeping in your car, living in your car?
How did you hype yourself up? I don't say to yourself.
Speaker 1 (03:46):
I mean I just knew at one point I was
going to do good. I never like, even at those points,
I never thought like, oh, my life isn't going to
go good. I just knew it was like a point
in my life I was at at that moment and
I knew at some point it was going to go good.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
Could you have gone back home and reset?
Speaker 1 (04:01):
Nah? No, not really, because I tried to do that,
and I lie, what happened? You know, everybody family ain't
the same, you know the fact. Yeah, I'm from the hood.
In my family, most of my family is broke, so
like they don't even even if they want to help,
they can't.
Speaker 2 (04:18):
They can't.
Speaker 3 (04:18):
That's right, that's right, because they're trying to figure out
survival on their own.
Speaker 2 (04:22):
Yea, do they understand what you're doing?
Speaker 1 (04:24):
Yeah? Now they like this is crazy. They like they
don't understand it, like because they a lot of them
they ain't seen me because I've been so busy. And
then I coming up with them and then we out
to eat and it's like like we'll go to like
I don't know, somewhere random and it'll be like one
hundred people come up to me and they like and
it'd be like everybody there start what they doing. Like
my stepmom cursed out some kids. I'm like, you can't
(04:45):
do that, Like like they just happy to see me
because I because I went to my sisters she had
a track meet. She's still in high school. I went
to her high school and all the kids was acting crazy.
And this was a couple of months ago. This went
like before I'm even at the point I'm at now.
It was like when it starts and she really wasn't
used to it. It's like they screaming and all this.
They like. She was like, he's just here trying to
(05:06):
see his sister. And I'm like, you got to understand that.
They just happy to see me, like they never seen
me before. They loved me, like.
Speaker 3 (05:12):
You watch you and now you're standing in front of them,
so they're freaking out.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
Yeah, I had her apologize to them because what she say.
She said, sorry, Yeah.
Speaker 3 (05:22):
It's like my bad, I'm just protecting my baby.
Speaker 1 (05:24):
Yeah, it was my stepmam. She was just like some people,
especially older people, they don't really know how to react
to that type of thing.
Speaker 3 (05:32):
And you're part of this new celebrity, right, this viral star.
Speaker 2 (05:35):
Yeah, viral celebrity. What's that like?
Speaker 1 (05:37):
Man, it's different because I feel like, yeah, it is
new because like I mean, I get just on social media.
I get over five hundred million views a month, so
like I'm one of the biggest people on the internet.
So it's kind of even though it took fifteen years,
it kind of seems like quick. And then like, especially
(05:57):
at the rate that I'm growing, it seems really cool
and I'm just happy. But it's definitely different because my
face is like bigger than my music now, even though
my every video is to my song is like the
amount of people that know my face is crazy. Like
I looked at my analytics and it said I reached
like nine hundred million individual people like not views, like people,
(06:19):
so like actual people people on one app. So on
one app. I know for a fact, nine hundred million
people have seen me.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
It's crazy.
Speaker 3 (06:26):
How how you have a bigger audience than most networks.
Speaker 1 (06:30):
Yeah, that's why they pay me.
Speaker 2 (06:34):
That's right, let's go what they paying you? Man, They're
paying you good.
Speaker 1 (06:38):
Yeah yeah.
Speaker 3 (06:39):
I mean you're not in your car obviously you're doing well.
You're saving your money. Are you good with money?
Speaker 1 (06:44):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (06:44):
Now I am viral money man. I mean you can
blow a bag fast.
Speaker 1 (06:48):
Yeah. No, I'm just you know, staying humble and just relaxing.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
Buying boots and leather jackets.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
I mean I didn't even buy his jacket. I got
it for free, right, Yeah, but the I bought the
boots too. But yeah, loved your boots. Yeah. Shout out
of Coila Ra. She was very nice. She's nice. She's
very nice.
Speaker 2 (07:05):
Yeah, I saw you doing the splits in the hallway.
Speaker 1 (07:06):
Yeah, I'm trying to get the splits. I feel like
in the next year, I'm gonna be able to do
a split. Yeah, I'm gonna try. That's one of my goals.
Speaker 2 (07:15):
That's right.
Speaker 3 (07:16):
That's hard, dog man. I've never tried, and Nord you know,
I don't want to try.
Speaker 1 (07:21):
I've never done splits before.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
What is it with the splits?
Speaker 1 (07:26):
I just started doing it one day because it was
kind of comfortable, and I was like, you know, I
should just try to like actually do a split.
Speaker 3 (07:31):
Yeah, because that's how you were standing, Like that's how
you normally stand.
Speaker 1 (07:34):
Yeah, that's how I stand. I just want to, yeah,
do it. That's a couple more feet down. Yeah, Because
then I started doing it when I was like taking
pictures with fans, just being funny, and I was like,
you know, I should just start trying to actually do
a split. Yeah. So I'm gonna see.
Speaker 2 (07:53):
Yeah, that's right.
Speaker 1 (07:53):
We'll tap back in in a year and you.
Speaker 2 (07:55):
Got to come up, man. We got to play music
next time too, man.
Speaker 1 (07:58):
Yeah. Yeah, falling Out Now following by Damn Kill Out Now,
and then I got another song called I'm Up Dropping
next month, I'll send it to you.
Speaker 2 (08:05):
That's right, killer man, Yo, come here any time.
Speaker 1 (08:07):
Man.
Speaker 2 (08:08):
Congratulations Man, Now, I see you next month.
Speaker 1 (08:10):
I'm gonna be back next Month's right.
Speaker 2 (08:11):
You come back next month.
Speaker 1 (08:12):
I'll come back every time. I'm in La. I'm finna
come here. All right, we're here, Yeah I will.
Speaker 4 (08:18):
Hey Jacking Rich from The Cruise Show.
Speaker 2 (08:19):
Thanks for listening to The Cruise Show podcast. To make
sure to subscribe and here auto download so you don't
miss an episode.
Speaker 4 (08:24):
So so
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