Chad Muska

Chad Muska ( born May 20, 1977 in Lorain, Ohio) is an American professional skateboarder, designers and entrepreneurs and also disc jockey, musician and hip- hop producer. In addition to a successful career as an athlete, he is also engaged in business of skateboarding scene and operation over the years, various labels such C1RCA and Shorty's.

Life

Skateboarding

Mid-nineties, Chad Muska was homeless and lived on the beach in San Diego before he was discovered by Ed Templeton and brought into the skateboard team of Toy Machine, where his professional career began. A little later, he joined the label Shorty's, meanwhile it sponsorship in the U.S. Street skateboarding scene has established itself as the winner of numerous competitions and performances in skate videos like Fullfill the Dream, Anthology or how to go Pro. At Shorty's his own designer collection appeared on skateboards. Muska emerged as a character and character to the games in the series, Tony Hawk's skateboarding and his trademark was always a ghetto blaster, which he wore during public appearances with him.

Parallel to his activities as a street skateboarder Muska was also instrumental in the establishment and development of Shorty's Skating team at the operation and together with his colleague Tom Penny the company Ghetto Child. In 1999 he founded C1RCA as a way for the sales of our own shoe models and skateboards. In addition, Chad Muska 's Skateboards since 2006 Team Member at Element. For more of his scene internal sponsors are or were Etnies, Supra Footwear and Mob griptape.

Muska as a musician

Chad Muska is as a disc jockey in Hollywood on the go and was directed at the beginning of the twenty-first century in San Diego private music studio one. Since then, Muska works with the label Muska Beatz as a composer and producer in the rap scene, and in 2002 released his first album with guest contributions of famous artists such as Ice -T, Mobb Deep, MC Lyte, U-God, Raekwon, Jeru The Damaja and Guru. Some of the songs included in this year also in the soundtrack of the game Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 4, where Muska appears as a character. Next to the Ghettoblaster the sampler and the keyboard to its trademarks were.

For Muska skateboarding and music belong inseparably to the same cultural world.

Public controversies

In 2006, it came at a nightclub in Hollywood, where Muska hung up as DJ music to a violent confrontation with the actor Kevin Connolly. Trigger to have been a snide remark about his girlfriend Nicky Hilton Muskas. With her ​​sister Paris Muska was again various tabloid media said more than once romantically involved.

Five years later, Muska was arrested in Hollywood because of Sprayens of graffiti with a bail of 20,000 U.S. dollars.

Others

Chad Muska had guest appearances in several music videos, including Rock Star by NERD, Bossy by Kelis and The World 's Gone Mad by Handsome Boy Modeling School. In 2005, he starred in an episode of the U.S. television series Entourage, a surfer.