This week’s Franchise Friday goes to Diabetes advocate and believer of music as therapy, Sparda Deleon. Representing Gun Hill Road of the Bronx, Sparda embraces his past traumas to inspire him to move forward with everything in his life. Sparda has evolved from mere music artist to entrepreneur and advocate for people diagnosed with Diabetes. With a new album U.W.U. Music slated to drop next year, Sparda Deleon has released the new single “Sour Power”. “Sour Power” is the per

This week’s Franchise Friday goes to the head of Glory Ave Entertainment, Admiral. After releasing a gritty smash record in Decorated, Admiral returns with the newest single “Money Machine”. Admiral’s classic style of mixing lyrics with soundbites of other media is reflected in this lo-fi track as the actual money counters are running in the back. Produced by U Dub of NY Bangers, the track doubles down on the lo-fi vibe with deep bass and low tones. The simplicity of counting

Our latest Franchise Friday, goes to R&B singer Bryan Joon releasing his new single “Secret Love”. When we first heard Joon’s voice we couldn’t believe it came from him and his deep, velvety voice continues to enthrall us to this day. His low vocals is the perfect backdrop to the bright synthetic beats that allow Joon to raise his pitch without overtaking the track. The song may come off as the R&B cliche of secret feelings, but in today’s world of R&B, it works as an homage

Last week’s Franchise Friday technically featured two artists as R&B musician Cle’ph was joined by guitarist and Pop musician Kavion Sabio, but this week Sabio himself has a great project out. Sabio’s single Y.A.T.O. (You Are The One) is out now and features smooth soulful tones with just the right amount of upbeat. There’s something calming about Sabio’s lyrics despite a strange chill emanating from the vocals. The song is blatantly a shout-out to one-sided relationships but

This week’s Franchise Friday is a close one. After working on the EP for about five years, R&B musician Cle’ph has finally released Confidence of a Shy Guy. I met Cle’ph while he was still making his rounds for the tracks Butterflies and Hey Miss Beautiful. Since then he has filmed two music videos and has now shown everyone the confidence of shy guys. To celebrate the release of the EP, Cle’ph held a special One Night with Cle’ph show at The West End Lounge. There he perfor

MOVE OVER MARIAH, LIL JON RUNS CHRISTMAS NOW The Internet is amazing. And while I’d love to say that a random producer decided to mash-up Lil Jon and the Kool-Aid Man into a music video, the truth is that Lil Jon did this of his own free will. For some reason Lil Jon wanted to make a Christmas song, but instead of eggnog he drinks Kool-Aid. I’ve been avoiding stores and the radio so I wouldn’t have to hear the same songs again, but I’d gladly blast this on repeat. If you don’

CHECK OUT WHAT A REMASTERED THRILLER LOOKS LIKE Michael Jackson’s music videos have always come across somewhat as short films. Obviously, the incredibly cinematic Thriller is the prime example of this notion. The 14 minute music video was MTV’s first world premier video and is even the Guinness World Record holder for “most successful music video”. The Library of Congress even inducted it as a national treasure back in 2009. While the music video’s quality still holds up to

WEIRD AL YANKOVIC  ADDED TO HOLLYWOOD WALK OF FAME In the wake of Donald Trump getting his Hollywood star destroyed (multiple times), another star will take its place (not literally). On August 27th, the master of cover songs will have his name cemented into history; that one was literal. This year has seen Weird Al go on a worldwide tour of cover sings and even live-stream a video of him covering 77 songs non-stop. If you’re in the area at 11:30 am then feel free to show Wei

F.L.O. EMPIRE NETWORK EXPANDS INTO TELEVISION WITH ITS FIRST TAPED SHOWCASE DISCLAIMER: THIS POST FIRST APPEARED ON BX UNDERGROUND’S WEBSITE AFTER FILMING FOR SAID EVENT Sunday May 20th, the F.L.O. Empire Network kicked off the celebration of its upcoming A-List tournament taking place at The Delancey. Starting on the first of July, 64 artists, hailing from all genres will compete in a winner-take-all tournament to earn an exclusive record deal certified by F.L.O. Empire Netw

35 NEW ALBUMS BY PRINCE WILL BE RELEASED When Prince devastatingly died back in 2016, he left behind an enormous library of unreleased music and photos. The most recent album Piano & a Microphone 1983 was announced to release this fall and include nine tracks; most of them unfinished or candid pieces that Prince himself refused to release. Now his estate has made a deal with Sony Music Entertainment to re-release 35 of Prince’s old albums. The deal starts later this year with

RICK AND MORTY GIVE YEEZY A SONG FOR HIS BIRTHDAY Co-creator of Rick and Morty, Justin Roiland is apparently a fan of Kanye West. Yeezy is no stranger to showing love for his favorites (just ask Taylor Swift) and some time ago, West declared his love for the show. According to Kanye, Rick and Morty is the greatest show of all time. While Kanye is also known for making divisive controversial statements about society, we can probably agree that Rick and Morty is either the grea

FIRST OFFICIAL PRINCE ALBUM ANNOUNCED SINCE HIS DEATH Today would have marked Prince’s 60th birthday, however, we all sadly know how Prince’s life ended up. Luckily, Prince will still be able to amaze us with his dedicated work ethic consciousness of his art. Since Prince passed in 2016, his estate has been diligently keeping tabs on the legend’s work and tying up any loose legal ends that may have been left open. Part of tying up those loose ends is the announcement of the a

NEW RUN THE JEWELS MUSIC VIDEO IS A RICK & MORTY ADVENTURE OR (VICE VERSA) Rick & Morty is no stranger to breaking the fourth wall and addressing the real-life viewers who watch the show. We all know about the McDonald’s Szechuan sauce debacle. After nearly causing riots, making cameos on other shows and blatantly being used for commercials, the next logical step is a music video. Run The Jewels’ newest track “Oh Mama” is entirely about an intergalactic trip showing Rick and

EMINEM LEAKS TRACK LIST-RAPPERS BARELY FEATURED Ahead of the scheduled December 15th drop (for the physical copy) of his new album Revival. The rap god posted his album’s track-list on Twitter. While fans are eager to hear more Eminem, mixed feelings run rampant. Revival‘s track-list seems a little underwhelming when acting as a follow-up to Eminem’s freestyle at the BET Cypher this past October and his track “Campaign Speech” last year; mostly because there are barely any ra

DESPITE RUMORS OF NOVEMBER 17 DROP, REVIVAL SLATED FOR DECEMBER 8TH/15TH Paul Rosenberg had given Eminem the perfect campaign, a building sized billboard with a working phone number and website for something called Revival. The website even sported an inspiring and believable commercial for whatever this Revival was supposed to be. All signs pointed to a November 17th release but then the 17th came and went. While no real reason was given, a new release date has been provided

GOOGLE BACKS NEW MUSIC SERVICE FOR ARTISTS TO MARKET THEMSELVES Early Wednesday morning, record label veteran Steve Stoute launched his new music service: United Masters. United Masters acts as a social marketing and management firm for musicians but the platform lets the artists retain legal creative control.  United Masters can do this by providing its artists exclusive access to brands and companies that may be interested in working with certain artists. United Masters wil

FAKE DRUG AD MAY HAVE REVEALED THE TITLE OF EMINEM’S NEXT ALBUM Eminem has gone on record about his being computer illiterate so it’s probably a good thing that his manager Paul Rosenberg is such a genius. On October 25th, Rosenberg posted an Instagram photo with a shameless plug of Yelawolf’s new album Trial By Fire (dropping 10/27). The photo shows Rosenberg’s hand holding the still packaged CD while he is facing a window from his office. The view from Rosenberg’s window is

CBS IS MAKING AN ANIMATED HALLOWEEN SHORT INSPIRED BY MICHAEL JACKSON Despite being dead, the legend of Michael Jackson lives on. The album Scream was recently released after a 3D remake of iconic video “Thriller” debuted last month. Since the king of pop has been brought back through film and music the next medium is TV. CBS apparently has the answer for that. The first trailer for “Michael Jackson’s Halloween” dropped and it’s not for his older fans. While the trailer does

FAMILIAR FACES JAY PARK, KEITH APE AND RICH CHIGGA PART OF SXSW LINEUP FOR 2018 The lineup for SXSW was revealed this week. If you’re thinking “didn’t I just hear about SXSW a few months ago?” you’d be right. The festival kicks off on March 9th and lasts till the 18th next year but promotions need to be made. The first list only comprises of 207 artists with more to be revealed, however, there are some heavy hitters on this first set. Indonesian rapper Rich Chigga (who manage

LEGENDARY ALBUM “ONCE UPON A TIME IN SHAOLIN” MAY NOT HAVE BEEN SOLD AT ALL Everyone’s favorite scumbag Martin Shkreli may still be the owner of the one-of-a-kind rap double album “Once Upon A Time In Shaolin”. He had placed the album up on Ebay towards the beginning of September and it was reportedly sold last week for a little over a million dollars. Now Wu-Tang member M-Eighty (Matt Markoff) has revealed that with Shkreli in jail, only his attorneys would be able to conduc