"This Is Why I Rock." MIMS answers the other question America needs answered.
YouTube labelers have been more helpful, indicating it's the "(Rock Version)" of "This Is Why I Rock."
By what appears to be sheer serendipity, the video's graphic depicts professional skateboarder Terry Kennedy (no relation to Jamie or JF), known to people who watch Viva la Bam (by the way, adding to Bam's use of mascara, his heart-a-gram tatoos, and the sorta metro/emo steez of his sex tape is the use of feminine article "la" to as the article in the title of his TV show--sup Bam? U fem? Bi? What're you saying here?) as "Compton-Ass Terry." The image comes from a Krew skateboard clothing company ad appearing in Thrasher and Transworld Skateboarding magazines across the country.
Kennedy rose from obscurity during his teenage years when the Baker team was mining L.A. County for teenage amateur riders. They included Evan Hernandez, Knox Godoy, Brian Herman, and Terry. It was a bit over-hyped; neither Terry nor Knox have really roughed up the skating world in a while, but like most things skate, these guys were hot in their day.
Last I checked, Terry was riding for Element, but there's some news here that he now rides for Baker and Pharrell Williams's vanity skate shoe project called Ice Cream. I don't really know much about this but here's a Youtube promo of sorts.
According to a brief scan of Wikipedia, Kennedy has been featured in some rap videos and was even shot in the jaw in '05. So maybe the connection between Terry Kennedy and the world of hip-hop and MIMS isn't so astonishing as it first appeared.
BTW: As with most skate-related vanity cross-promotion projects (the Bam thing, the Fuel Network), the Ice Cream video is pretty boring: not enough skating, too much self-commentary. Terry Kennedy's never been a standout skater, but his ability to market himself as one "from the streets" has proven remarkably successful. I mean just check out those fronts! Maybe later a post about the respective virtues and vices of cross-polination between skating, hip-hop, punk, TV, etc.
Ice Cream Skates
TK Krew Ad
The Brief Terry Kennedy Wikipedia
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