When Sublime first came along, I loathed them - but then I was living in New York, it made no sense at all.
Now I'm in Southern California.... hearing it on the radio, it sound just right
Nothing to do with "bass weight" and that side of things, this is about reggae as an art of singing - and this dead dude got closer than most white dudes to the "throwing off the surly bonds of gravity" floaty unfettered free feeling ("treble light"?)
Nice use of the McLaren war whoop from the start of "Buffalo Gals" too