Before P. Rod and Skateboard P were household names, X Games champ Chad Muska owned the skate scene, garnering more media coverage than any other skater of the late '90s as every kid's hip-hopped antithesis to a commercial-savvy Tony Hawk. But then Muska disappeared (well, kinda).

Although conspicuously absent from the skate circuit, homeboy became a staple in Hollywood, partying it up with celebs, dating supermodels, and yes, even acting.  "At some point, anyone who lives in L.A. thinks they can be an actor," says Muska. "I was surrounded by so many actors, directors, and producers all the time, it was just natural that I fell into it." The budding skactor landed as a road-raged Malibu surfer on Entourage last summer, and as an MTV editor in Paris Hilton's upcoming masterpiece (we're just guessing) Pledge This!

To round out the Hollywood life, Muska made a rap album a couple years back, and is now sinking his teeth into fashion with his high-end men's line, Forever Living, a bold-graphics-based retort to homogenized mall skate fashion. So how did a skate rat who's lived in Ohio, Jersey, Philly, Vegas, and Arizona end up calling Hollywood home? "Why does anyone come to L.A.?" he asks. "Because they have a dream, they wanna do something." Or in Chad's case, quite a few things.