MGK Pays Tribute to Snowboarder ‘Dingo’ Trembath on ‘Your Name Forever’

Machine Gun Kelly pays rocking tribute to one of his best friends, late Australian snowboarder Luke “The Dingo” Trembath in the new video for “Your Name Forever.” The Sam Cahill-directed clip features MGK performing the high-adrenaline rap-rock tune on a rooftop overlooking the Hollywood Hills interspersed with footage of Trembath’s many friends in the music and extreme sports world gathered in front of a massive portrait of the beloved powder rider painted by muralist Royyal Dog.

“I never thought the last time I’d seen you would be the last time I’d seen you/ I hopped on the bike that you gave me the day I rode to nowhere, hoping that I’d reach you/ The last argument that we had, I said things I shouldn’t have/ I hurt you and I didn’t mean to/ Your coat’s on the chair in my house right now,” MGK sings urgently on the high-octane tune that features background vocals from Avenged Sevenfold’s M. Shadows, Bring Me the Horizon’s Oli Sykes, Mod Sun and lead guitar from A7X Synyster Gates, who were all friends of Dingo’s as well.

“i’ma miss you brother. 😞💔🕊️ i hope this song honors your epic legacy. none of this will be the same without you,” MGK wrote on Instagram on Tuesday (March 18). In an earlier reel last week featuring pictures of the old friends from over the years, Kelly wrote, “crazy…i didn’t even cry this hard when my dad died. 💔😞🕊️ i’ve lost a lot of friends, but i’ve never lost a brother. we’ll never get another Dingo on this planet. a true rockstar without ever needing to make a song, the most loyal, loud, charismatic, funny, and annoying human i’ve ever had the honor of knowing.”

He added, “i’ll miss your epic toasts, i’ll miss dapping you up and my hand hurting everytime because you had some odd amount of Australian strength goin on, i’ll miss your bellyflops, i’ll miss watching you walk through the door and lifting the energy of every pivotal event in my adult life, i’ll miss you pissing me off, but most of all i’ll miss your laugh. you were the glue between all of us,” before alluding to the difficulty of thinking about a world without his pal as the singer awaits the birth of his first child with ex-Megan Fox. “i feel like your up there with my new child, dressed up in a hilarious costume making them laugh, getting ready to send them down. i couldn’t ask for a more bittersweet birth blessing,” MGK wrote.

The video features years of footage of loud and brash party-bringer Dingo hanging backstage and goofing around with MGK, as well as a party of black-clad mourners releasing doves in his honor at the mural dedicdation; sponsor Monster Energy confirmed on Feb. 28 that Trembath died at age 38, with no cause of death revealed so far.

“Tell me, did you know it was time to say goodbye?/ Tell me, did the heavens align where angels fly?” MGK sings on the chorus. “What happens, what happens when you kiss the sky?/ Tell me, did you know it was time to say goodbye?”

The clip ends with an extended cut Dingo hanging with MGK over the years, sharing laughs and silly moments backstage, including one in which the rapper/rocker bursts into tears and wonders, “I literally feel like we had the same conversation last year. In this same spot. Are we going to grow up and be doing this when we’re 50?”

Watch the “Your Name Forever” video below.