by Ashlei Stevens
September 6, 2025
The singer is utilizing his platform-turned-testimony to advocate for early screenings
Montell Jordan is greatest generally known as a Nineteen Nineties chart-topping R&B artist and because the founding lead pastor of Grasp Peace Church close to Atlanta. Now, he desires to be generally known as a two-time most cancers survivor.
Montell shared with BLACK ENTERPRISE that most cancers has returned. After an preliminary prognosis in January 2024 and removing of his prostate in November of that yr, Jordan says the remaining most cancers has been present in his left lymph node and “doubtlessly some undetectable issues within the prostate mattress and the place the place the prostate was faraway from.”
“I now am headed on my journey to be a two-time most cancers survivor; not one thing that I ever thought I’d even be for one time,” Jordan informed Black Enterprise. “However that is the journey, and we’re ensuring that we do our greatest to tell others, doc the journey, and share what this journey is like as we’re proper now within the midst of it.”
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As September is Nationwide Prostate Most cancers Consciousness Month, the award-winning singer/songwriter/producer is utilizing his platform-turned-testimony to advocate for early screenings. Jordan is a world ambassador for ZERO Prostate Most cancers, a number one prostate most cancers advocacy group. ZERO Prostate Most cancers is kicking off its $20 Million Blitz the Boundaries initiative in Atlanta, the place ZERO stories that Black males are as much as 5 occasions extra prone to be identified with prostate most cancers.
Based on ZERO, Black males face the very best prostate most cancers loss of life charges within the nation. They’re 70 % extra prone to be identified with prostate most cancers and twice as prone to die from it, however there’s a 99% survivor charge when detected early.
“Our new partnership with Montell is sacred,” mentioned Courtney Bugler, ZERO Prostate Most cancers President and CEO. “His braveness to share his ongoing journey and full assist will assist sound the alarm for males all over the place that it’s time to let go of the stigmas related to prostate most cancers. It’s time to speak, and it’s time to take motion. Collectively, we hope to rewrite the script on what survivorship appears like: loud, proud, and with out disgrace.”
Robust Conversations on Most cancers to Protect Household Legacy
There have been no bodily illnesses that led Jordan to consider most cancers had returned, however his due diligence in frequent testing found the illness.
“I had slightly spike in PSA (prostate-specific antigen), which signified this isn’t one thing that’s regular or wholesome. And so, in that testing, after which in getting in for additional PET and CT scans, it confirmed that there was some remaining most cancers,” he mentioned.
Jordan is urging males to get screened early and inspiring ladies to have obligatory conversations with the boys of their lives as “there’s a mandate on us proper now to guarantee that we’re doing what we have to do to protect our household legacies.”
To ladies, Jordan says, “When you’ve got a person in your life, I’m speaking about your husband, your son, your brother, your uncle, your grandson, your pastor, a person in your life that you just love and also you care about, you’ll want to make them go and get checked as a result of most cancers doesn’t care. And the truth is: in the event you don’t catch it, it’ll attempt to catch you.”
For males, he encourages testing beginning in your 40s—however to verify along with your healthcare supplier for his or her greatest suggestion. Jordan says he started testing at age 42, with bloodwork over a decade to point out his ranges, and due to that, it was capable of be detected.”
His mandate to males—particularly Black males—is pressing.
“So to my guys on the market, in the event you’ve ever listened to a Montell Jordan track, otherwise you ever partied to one thing that I did or watched some music video and even conversant in me or with my music: I’m not solely asking you, I’m pleading with you. I’m praying for you. I’m mandating you to go and get checked,” Jordan informed Black Enterprise, including he attributes his religion in God and the fixed assist from his spouse Kristin, kids, and grandchildren to help him on this journey.”
That is How We Remedy It
As a nod to his Grammy-nominated ‘90s hit, “That is how we do it,” Jordan is worked up to kick off a “30 for 30 for 30 Tour” in 2026 known as “That is How We Remedy It.”
“So it’s form of providential that, you understand, a person who’s been married for 30 years, who’s now had a track for 30 years, is now partnering with an organization (ZERO) that’s 30 years outdated; 30 for 30 for 30,” Jordan informed Black Enterprise.
Going into 2026, Jordan will associate with ZERO to host a 30-city music tour and air screenings of his documentary Maintain, which highlights his journey with prostate most cancers. Jordan is at the moment fundraising for manufacturing, and there shall be clips on the movie’s social media web page. Moreover, he desires to make use of the tour—and his voice—as one more solution to save lives, by providing prostate most cancers screenings throughout the movie screenings.
“It’s most cancers, it’s simply not my most cancers. It’s my therapeutic.
Lastly, Jordan encourages all to be conscious of their phrases, as they maintain energy.
“It’s most cancers, it’s simply not my most cancers. It’s my therapeutic. And so, I’ve to say stuff that belongs to me. And so for anyone on the market that’s navigating one thing, as a result of there’s life and loss of life within the energy of the tongue, and we turn out to be what we’re talking, the truth we’re creating, I already know that I’m healed,” Jordan informed Black Enterprise. “And so from that standpoint, I’m not denying that most cancers exists. I do know most cancers exists, it’s simply not mine. And from that standpoint, in the event you’re watching this, it’s not yours. Even you probably have it, it doesn’t have you ever.”
Catch the total interview with Montell Jordan on BE’s streaming platforms Friday, Sept. 12 at 10am ET.
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