BET gives Rap Star Montel Mashugana Life Time achievement Award!
The worlds only African American/Caucasian/Jew was honored by the BET for his colorful career and contributions to equal rights.
Mashugana's parents were Ethiopian Jews that were both born and raised in Ireland and moved to Los Angeles in nineteen fifty eight. He was born, Montel Jacksonshwartz on a hot summer day, ninteen sixty seven in Los Angeles. Born in the summer of love. It was only fitting that this multi ethnic, cultural and religious phenomenon was a symbolization of what was happening in America at that time.
Montel's Baby Pic. Enter your content here.
Montel's dynamic ethnic and genetic structure have baffled doctors and scientists since he was a boy... ...Montel's ethnic infusion is highly documented in contemporary medical history books around the world. The ethnic infusion yet separation -- It's highly rare. His case is one out of twenty seven point two billion. Up until the time he was born, the last known DNA link with the same breakdown as Mr. Mashugana's dates all the way back to the days of Moses.
As a child he had an instant flair for singing dancing and showmanship. As a young boy he would rap anywhere he could.
Montel above, rapping on the mic at the 1986 rap freestyle competition.
Montel's efforts as a rapper came to fruition at the nineteen eighty six rap freestyle competition in South Central Los Angeles... He kept the audience spell bound with his unorthodox style and his profound lyrical content. He held the floor for eight hours and forty six minutes nonstop, which held the rap free style world record until nineteen ninety five when East Indian rapper Raji Mohanan Akbar broke the record in Bangladesh.
But nothing could deny the young brash west coast rapper from the spotlight. In the crowd that night was the young famed record producer, Dick Dubin... ...'The first time I saw Montel I knew he was special. I thought to myself, if there was a way to infuse the essence of what he was, into the music, then we would be onto something. I mean, I never seen anything like him, a black, Jewish, white African American'.
Montel's dynamic ethnic diversity was a symbol of equality with civil rights in the late sixties and early seventies. Without his rapping career, if nothing else, Montel will surely be remembered for his contributions to civil rights... ...The late George Plimton once said of Mashugana, “although not very well known for it, the Social and cultural significance that Montel Mashugana has had on society is immensely important, not only to the pop culture world but the world as a wholeâ€.
Above, Dick Dubin, Montel's producer.
Dick Dubin saw the cultural and ethnic fusion as an advantage to attract a multi demographic and produced Montel's first album the, mega hit, "G, Dog, Money, Gangster, Player, Hustler, Mashugana, Loc, Daddy" ..."G, Dog, hit the charts at number one it's first week. Montel was an overnight sensation. Dick Dubin quoted... "G, Dog, Money, Gangster, Player, Hustler, Mashugana, Loc, Daddy" blew it all wide open. It's just a legendary hardcore rap song. It's the kind of song that will be influencing artists for the next hundred years. I put it right up there with Gershwin's "Rhapsody In Blue".
Montel's second album, "I'll sock you so hard I'll give your chest a cave in". Montel's follow up album to G dog, was the mega hit, "I'll Sock You So Hard, I'll Give Your Chest A Cave In". ...And then came Montel's childhood dream, to be an actor in his own T.V. Show. Montel signed a five year contract with CBC television to star in his own action drama series, titled... "Don't Shvitz Me Sucka!" And then came the biggest challenge of Montel's career...
"Don't Shvitz Me Sucka!" .
A woman named "Queen DeLa Yenta" claimed that she was pregnant with Montel's baby, and tried to sue him for two hundred and eighty seven million dollars in alimony payments. Montel's lawyers demanded a blood test but De La Yenta refused. A Legal battled ensued all through out the pregnancy. One of the major problems was, Montel himself wasn't sure if the baby could be his or that he and De La Yenta had ever met. ...De La Yenta gave birth to a boy who appeared to be Chinese. The court then demanded a mandatory blood test which then confirmed that the child wasn't Montel's, yet he still supports the boy til this day. Montel's childhood friend - Ice Pop, quoted, "I remember after that he was relieved but depressed. Although he didn't want to have a kid right then, he felt like no one could or would ever love him just for him and not his money".
Although Montel's legal troubles were now in the clear his career started to suffer. It took a dramatic downward turn in late nineteen ninety four, when a rumor started to spread around the industry. A story broke out about the true origin of his birth place... Although Mashugana never kept the origin of his childhood a secret, it was always written that he grew up on the streets of south central. When word got out, certain rap adversaries were quick to spread the word that Montel Masugana the king of hard-core rap, actually grew up in the affluent suburb of Encino California.
It was at this point in Mashugana's career he says he experienced a Devine intervention, a spiritual revelation. Montel began work on his next album, with that new vision, the title of the album was, "Love"... Critic feed back and record sales for "Love" turned out to be no less than a disaster. I don't think the crowd bought him after that. They wanted the hard edged Black Jewish white boy from the hood. And that's not what his new message was about. He wanted to rap about love... Haunted by his fan's rejection, Montel engaged in a all out publicity campaign for his next, and to date, last album.
He decided to go back to the hard-core style that brought his name to fame. The title of the album was: "Harder Than Ever"! Montel worked feverishly in the studio for months on his comeback album. Then, after nineteen months of production... ..."Harder Than Ever" was ready for release... The album was a complete and utter disaster. Radio D jays rejected it. Rolling Stone Magazine called it void of any artistic or financial value.
Montel's cultural and civil rights contributions and sparkling career can never be over shadowed by the small failures he had in the waning years of his career. He has forever left his mark in the history books of rap and hip hop and the equal rights movement. Montel is retired now... ...He now finds peace in growing plants in his garden, now residing in Tarzana California... ...Long are the days of the parties, the women, the blunts, the 40s. and the fried gefilte fish... ...What remains is the wisdom of the one and only man named Montel Masugana...
MONTEL'S LIFE STORY CAN BE SEEN IN THE MOVIE "LOVE HOLLYWOOD STYLE" - RELEASE DATE: AUGUST 2007
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