Hepcat - No Worries • official music video (highest quality version)

What this video is

Released in January 1998 at the commercial apex of third wave ska, 'No Worries' was Hepcat's breakout single on Hellcat Records, the Epitaph subsidiary founded by Tim Armstrong of Rancid that served as the era's premier ska/punk imprint. Hepcat occupied a distinct traditionalist niche within the third wave: rooted in authentic 1960s Jamaican ska, rocksteady, soul, jazz, and R&B rather than the ska-punk or ska-core…

Why it matters

As one of the few major third wave ska music videos to foreground a traditionalist, first-wave-influenced aesthetic rather than ska-punk energy, 'No Worries' is a primary document of the Southern California purist ska strand. It represents Hepcat's peak mainstream exposure and captures an…