bossman
Gimme wah mi come fah. Being around ten years old or so would have certainly qualified it for such a thing but had I compiled a list such as this one as recently as…. just two or three years or so ago, chances are pretty high that Bossman wouldn’t even have been amongst the final cuts (along with the likes of Wipe Your Tears, the aforementioned Save The Juveniles and Stop That Train with Pressure Busspipe) and not made it at all. While I was well familiar the Fyah’s cut of Riddim Wise’s Downtown riddim and thought it solid, I had nowhere near the admiration for it that I’ve developed over the past eighteen months-ish. What changed?? So bossman! Gimmi wah mi come fah! Stop beat around di bush, You nuh si mi frustrated and di youths a dead fi hunger, And mi no stay like how it look, Seh mi nah stretch mi hands out fi no handout, Mi nah come yah feet out, Yuh nah si seh this a drout and di youth dem need foot to their mouth, Too much hungry-belly pickney deh bout, And mi tell yuh, this serious, I WANT THE RIGHT AMOUNT! You bossman, gimme mi mass man, Mind yuh get mi cross man, STOP TREAT DI YOUTHS LIKE ORPHAN, A who you waan show off pon, MAN A WHAT KINDA HOME YOU BORN FROM??!!” If you’ve never REALLY listened to this song, be nice to yourself, do something good for YOU and dive into it. Bossman is WONDERFUL lyrically. It is pinpointed and HIGHLY DETAILED for a cause that many people from many different walks of life are well familiar with. Probably one of the best written tunes of his entire career and that is saying TONS, given what this man has been up to.