Medz – Uppity Boss

A raw, chest-thumping dancehall cut with a bluntly streetwise attitude, “Uppity Boss” comes in like a one-drop of swagger and pressure rather than anything airy or polished. Medz keeps the focus tight on the vocal, and that suits UBM Records’ lane here: lean, rugged production that leans more on bass and forward motion than on ornament. It’s a neat follow-up to the kind of hard-edged work the label has been putting out, with the title itself carrying the sort of self-assured talk that sits naturally in the dancehall tradition. In UBM’s catalogue, this feels like one of those straight-to-the-point singles that helps define the label’s heavier side, the sort of track built to cut through a sound system session rather than sit quietly in the background.