Addison Lee

"Addison Lee" arrived at a specific cultural moment in the UK — when Afroswing was bleeding into the mainstream and London's Nigerian-British youth were reshaping what British pop sounded like. Not3s crafted something that felt almost effortlessly infectious, built on a skippy, percussive rhythm that borrows from Afrobeats but sits firmly in a London context. The instrumental is bright without being gaudy — light touches of melody over a pattern that makes your body move before your brain registers why. Not3s' voice is smooth and slightly nasal, delivered with a casual intimacy that feels like he's talking directly to you rather than performing for a crowd. The song is essentially a love-struck taxi narrative — the excitement and vulnerability of chasing someone, that charged energy of a late-night London journey where anything feels possible. There's a sweetness to it that was relatively unusual in the harder edges of UK rap at the time, a willingness to be openly romantic. It captures a very particular feeling: young, urban, slightly euphoric, caught between confidence and nervousness in front of someone you want to impress. You'd put this on getting ready for a night out, or in that bright-mood afternoon stretch when the city feels like it belongs to you.