Unda (born Alp Ünsal, September 24, 2004 in Istanbul, Turkey), also known as alpunda, is a singer, songwriter, and producer blending Contemporary R&B and trap into his own distinct sound. Listeners often compare his voice to artists like Tory Lanez and Justin Bieber, while he has cited A$AP Rocky and Virgil Abloh as major artistic influences on his creative direction. He is one of the founders of L Town Media, an art collective that has grown stronger with each project it releases.
His name comes from where he's from. L Town is his corner of Istanbul — the street he grew up on and the world that runs through nearly everything he writes — and the name his collective, L Town Media, works under. Unda began making music in high school, writing English-language songs on his father's classical guitar. At 17, he discovered music production and started recording vocals and building beats in his bedroom, where he made his entire debut album, bebe! (2023), on his own. He eventually turned to Turkish to render his own street and everything he'd lived through without a filter, though he's said writing in English still feels more natural to him at times. He writes his own music, and while he occasionally collaborates with other producers, he produces most of his work himself.
Unda's discography traces a single continuous story across two albums. bebe! introduced "bebe Unda" — a reckless, overconfident teenager from L Town who said whatever came to mind, careless and constantly messing up between flashes of maturity and pure childishness. Its second album, hayallerden kayalara (2025), picks up where that confidence runs out: the same kid chasing his dreams until he crashes into the harsh rocks of reality, hitting rock bottom and losing the people around him along the way.
Night is a recurring theme throughout Unda's music. Most of his songs take place after dark, when routine ends and the streets belong to those still out in them. He often narrates his inner experiences through what's happening around him on those nights, blending personal reflection with scenes from the outside world.
His work in Berlin came through Hue, a Turkish producer based there who discovered him and has mentored him since. Unda performed at Blankensteinpark, Berlin on May 6, 2026, and at UFO Sound Studios, Berlin on June 5, 2026. Neither bebe! nor hayallerden kayalara is currently available on streaming — both were taken down after release and are no longer being streamed today, though they gained significant attention during the short time they were live. Arama Telefonlarımı remains Unda's most-listened-to and most talked-about track, and the song that introduced him to a wider audience. In 2026, Unda began reaching a much larger audience and is currently working on his first studio album — his most ambitious work to date, a record he's said goes deeper into himself than anything before, and the first he'll release on Spotify.
Unda's debut album, made entirely in his bedroom during high school over roughly a year, when he was 17. Its title comes from his nickname — he's the youngest in his family and among his friends, so "bebe" stuck. It captures the "bebe Unda" era: a reckless, street-mouthed teenager saying whatever comes to mind, swinging between surprising maturity and pure childishness. Marked by clean vocals and clarity, it sounds fully realized despite being made alone in a bedroom. Tracklist: Yokus, C*cain, VVS (feat. Kurt), Gang, Yakam Bati, Padixah, Bungalov Freestyle, Bebek, Oniky, Unutma Beni, Bi Baskasi Var, Sonu Yok.
The intro track. The title is both literal and figurative: the street Unda grew up on sits on an actual hill (yokuş). It introduces that street — L Town — and the people on it, written when the top was still just a dream. It connects to the closer Sonu Yok: the climb has no end.
Unda speaks in the language of nightlife, with a mocking and flirtatious tone, describing how his and his crew's hustle only begins once the city falls asleep. One of the album's most hype tracks and widely considered the fan favorite.
A fierce duo performance with Kurt, a rapper Unda has known since high school. Sharp production and mocking, defiant lyrics aimed at everyone else.
Considered one of Unda's lyrically strongest songs. A show of strength alongside the friends loyal to him. The intro's Şeyma Subaşı sample was one of the most iconic sample uses in Turkish music that year.
A high-energy, fierce, and stylish track full of references to where Unda comes from. Marked one of his most refined vocal performances of that era.
A straightforward fun track with little subtext. It takes Sibel Can's "Padişah" and reworks it into something completely different through Unda's own production — closer to a remix or cover. The second most listened-to track on the album, right after C*cain.
Shows just how sarcastic Unda can be.
The album's first love song — a softer sound paired with some of Unda's most refined lyricism.
One of the album's deepest songs, with some of its most striking production. Samples Kalben's "Haydi Söyle" in the chorus, creating a haunting atmosphere around an intensely felt platonic love.
Samples the guitar from Sezen Aksu's "Unuttun mu Beni." Widely seen as the cornerstone of the album — touching on people who didn't believe in him and the hypocrisy of those who secretly wished for his failure. The album's strongest moment of storytelling.
Unda speaks as his 6-year-old self. The hook refers to the child version of himself that he still carries.
A massive production that previews the sound of his next album. The outro declares that everything is just beginning — this road has no end for him.
Unda's second album and a direct sequel to bebe!. The title means "from dreams to rocks" — a fall. It follows the confident kid from the first record as he chases his dreams and crashes into the harsh rocks of reality, hitting rock bottom. Built on electronic production and heavily distorted vocals as a deliberate break from bebe!, it began in Istanbul and was completed between his bedroom and Berlin. The album offers no resolution and ends open-ended: the war is with yourself, and it leads nowhere. Tracklist: Nefes, Hâlâ, Ner'desiи, Young Legacy Freestyle, Kazara, Thundaaaa, Arama Telefonlarımı, Love Interlude (feat. Samra), 22.
The opening track. Its hook opens as a question — "ışık olmadan nefes almadan nereye kadar" — and answers itself in an explosion of energy: "ölene kadar, bütün şehre tek bi ismi haykırtana kadar." A vow to chase the dream until he dies, the promise the album is built on. The first song in his career to use heavily distorted vocals — a deliberate choice, the sound of an artist at war with his own feelings and the people around him.
Follows directly after the vow made in Nefes: trying to clear the road ahead, he is stopped immediately by his own past — old relationships, fake friends, things he never got over. The first of the rocks the title refers to. Its central line about a tear he still hasn't forgotten is less a complaint than a statement: he remembers what was done to him.
The album's most vocally distinctive song — soft in tone, sharp in delivery. The question in the title is aimed at himself. It opens by admitting he lies to himself ("yalanlarım çok, kendime"), then spends its length doing exactly that: he complains no one is left to stop him, then reframes that emptiness as freedom — "olmasa da olur aşk ama bitemez savaş."
A fun, high-energy freestyle that works as a release valve in an otherwise darkening record.
The road he says he fell onto "by accident" is the road to his dreams — not because he stumbled into it, but because he set out without knowing what it would cost him. Less a confrontation than a pause: he stops mid-road and looks both ways, with no way out anymore.
A fun yet fierce track, carried by powerful, distorted, high-energy vocals.
The album's most successful song and the track that introduced Unda to a wider audience. A playful, flirtatious song with soft vocals — a light, breathing moment in the middle of an otherwise dark, distorted album.
The album's only English-language song, sung entirely by Samra — an artist Unda met in Berlin and has since worked with in the studio. For fifty seconds he steps out of the narrator role he holds across the record: the listener stops hearing about Unda and starts hearing what Unda heard. It is also the first time love is named on the album, setting up the closer, 22.
The closing track, where the album's throughline finally resolves. It opens on being awake at an hour with nowhere to go — for an artist whose songs live after dark, the night's own hour turning empty is the measure of the damage, and the title is that hour. Just before the second chorus he quietly names an object he never mentions elsewhere, and the record reorganizes around it: after bebe!, chasing his dreams, he fell for someone, and the album has been a fight with her ghost all along. What is called love here isn't love itself, though — it's the constriction of longing and fear he couldn't stop feeling, what Unda at the time believed love to be. The larger recognition is that he had been running from himself since the album's first second, and only at the end sees how much he lost. It ends open-ended.
Unda is from Istanbul, Turkey — from L Town, the street he grew up on, which his collective L Town Media is named after.
Unda blends Contemporary R&B and trap music into his own distinct sound.
No, Unda works as a singer, songwriter, and producer, handling multiple creative roles in his music.
Unda released his first album, bebe!, in 2023, followed by hayallerden kayalara in 2025. In 2026, he started being recognized by a much wider audience.
L Town Media is the art collective Unda co-founded and releases his work under, named after L Town — his corner of Istanbul. It has grown stronger with each project it releases.
Yes, alpunda is Unda's Instagram handle and personal account.
Yes, Unda writes his own music. While he occasionally collaborates with other producers, he produces most of his work himself.
Listeners often compare Unda's sound to artists like Tory Lanez and Justin Bieber.
Unda has cited A$AP Rocky and Virgil Abloh as major artistic influences on his creative direction.
Yes, Unda is currently working on his first studio album — his most ambitious work to date and his first Spotify release.
No, both albums were taken down after their release and are no longer available on streaming platforms today.
Arama Telefonlarımı, from the album hayallerden kayalara, is Unda's most-listened-to and most talked-about track.
Unda runs a small, early-access email club called "before everyone else club" on his website. Members are among the first to hear new releases.
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