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Urban Couture

by K. Sparks & Es-K

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1.
Flipside 05:16
Flipside [Hook: Snoh Ramos] Do it for the cool in me Do it for the cool in me Do it for the cool in me Do it for the cool in me Do it for the cool in me [Verse 1: K. Sparks] It's like magic when the flow it tend to do that Pick apart and dissect it but where ya crew at Never to thought that they fought but then they blew that It's bigger to taught but that thought you see they knew that It's public housing racist police to slay your crew black (Flipside) Somebody browsing copping a lease that cash they blew that Somebody daughter graduate from college knowledge way spent (Flipside) Somebody daughter stripping in a club she need to pay rent Somebody son just wrote a sentence now he bought to slay rhymes (Flipside) Somebody son just caught a sentence now he bought to do time Somebody smoke and drink that liquor daily taking chances (Flipside) Somebody never smoked a cigarette still died from cancer Problem in society sobriety's a must It ain't no I in me no trying me the iron be to thrust Don't get if twisted I'm gifted the best you never seen [Bridge: Snoh Ramos] Maybe lately maybe I been thinking change gone come Da da da da da da Da da da da da da Yeah yeah [Bridge: K. Sparks] Welcome to the Flipside Welcome to the Flipside Welcome to the Flipside Welcome to the Flipside [Hook: Snoh Ramos] Do it for the cool in me Do it for the cool in me Do it for the cool in me Do it for the cool in me Do it for the cool in me [Verse 2: K. Sparks] The style injector the style protector that won't neglect ya That's bigger to bet ya that's never to sweat ya Somebody husband on the gram he thirsty needing her (Flipside) That grass it always look greener on social media Somebody tryna have a kid in-vitro for the third time (Flipside) Somebody kids with children's services they on that drug time Somebody miss his mother since she passed it's like a slaughter (Flipside) Somebody got a mom but since he married never call her Somebody feeling resentment somebody feeling contentment Somebody don't ever know what it could be like if they could let go of resentment Somebody saving for them but injections hope to spend now (Flipside) Somebody overweight and so they feel they need to slim down Somebody got a gun and now he feel that he gon change changes (Flipside) Somebody lost a son to gun violence know what the pain brings Don't get it twisted I'm gifted the best you never seen [Hook: Snoh Ramos] Do it for the cool in me Do it for the cool in me Do it for the cool in me Do it for the cool in me Do it for the cool in me [Bridge: Snoh Ramos] Maybe lately maybe I been thinking change gon come Da da da da da da Da da da da da da Yeah yeah [Outro]
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Blue Nostalgia [Verse 1: K. Sparks] Just let it breathe Beautiful if you ask me tend to analyze That's a part of my thoughts that I don't glamorize If Jay Z and Beyoncé got that lemonade Then me and you was a better grade Minute Maid I'm from a place where they controlling that reefa growing to teach ya Lyrically he colder than Keisha good lord And y'all ain't half as nice Blogging is dead let's enjoy the After life Like a weapon see me reppin y'all could get wit Like old school Martin get the stepping, fit bit That's a side bar, what y'all rhyme for Why religion stay diving my people It's no peace just forever war simile's are better or life is like a metaphor [Hook: Stephanie Heaghney] Doing it for you for you for you baby My highs my lows my eyes are closed I feel I know [Verse 2: K. Sparks] Just let it breathe Lost my mother and brother felt like the same year I'm pinching myself like why I'm still here Am I still here, am I still here [Bridge: Stephanie Heaghne] I'm just so full of stress I'm just tryna feel blessed I'm just tryna feel the opposite I'm tryna make it I'm tryna make it I'm sick of the hurt my smiles into frowns that's my fault Like the beat just had a break down I'm sick of young gangs that stay with the pump, they saying dumb things Like ten Donald Trumps See I, been bottled bad happens to good people Alotta poverty homie listen but that's the sequel That's a side bar, what y'all rhyme for Why religion stay diving my people It's no peace just forever war simile's are better or life is like a metaphor [Hook: Stephanie Heaghney] Doing it for you for you for you baby My highs my lows my eyes are closed I feel I know [Outro]
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Pen Griffey 03:10
Pen Griffey [Intro: Kingston] [Verse 1: K. Sparks] They call me crazy baby shady want that old sparks I ride the beat precision rhythm like them old narcs Got the Curley Afro nowadays I use to have the Caesar I eat some pizza with Liza then charge it to her visa Now who the hell is Liza? Word to that Mona Lisa I'm picture perfect sicker verdict know ya heard it homie Now can you tell me though what happened to community It ain't no more them Queen Latifah's thought that's preaching unity It's so profound, sipping liquors they be on that Johnny walker Now slow it down, off them liquors they put Johnny in a walker Humble's the new cocky papi sloppy with them seconds though Wavy with the Caesar either ether spit if let it go [Interlude: Kingston] [Verse 2: K. Sparks] Bigger the flow though, that be a no no, to kick it to po po Moving in slow mo, jump like a pogo, but so so What you feel see it's irrelevant to people I just Stay with that steel see verbally I'm magneto we know See everybody bout to tell you I'm cold dude Disrespect you like them prices at whole-foods Lyrically offend them blend them when u end them Cuz K. Sparks stay in the hood just like engines They blocks be crazy that's word to they fat momma Shots don't graze me miss shells like Obama [Interlude: Kingston] [Verse 3: K. Sparks] But then again they specialize in them gun wounds Star Wars homie watch me lamp on them sun dunes So what's the verdict I ain't perfect but I try to be See life ain't perfect little homie listen but ya style could be Lyrically they has bees you sure your name ain't Jasmine Cuz all y'all do is talk that jazz to alotta men Lyrically they has bees you sure your name ain't Jasmine Cuz all y'all do is talk that jazz to alotta men [Outro: Kingston]
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Strip 4 Me 03:34
Strip 4 Me [Hook: Snoh Ramos] Like a bird feeling free in the sky where I be oh me Never seen never heard every word every verb to me Like a bird feeling free in the sky where I be oh me Never seen never heard every word every verb to me Cuz you feel my vibe you come inside nowhere to hide it's all of me Cuz you feel my vibe you come inside nowhere to hide it's all of me Strip for me, strip for me, strip for me, but keep your clothes on [Verse 1: K. Sparks] I don't wanna die and I don't wanna cry I don't wanna live and ain't got much to give since my momma died See verbally it's homicide, I kill these rappers Truth be told I ain't never feeling these rappers I just Got alotta anger issues in me it's a part of me To strap grenades up to my chest you see the heart in me That's my defense mechanism build these fences around me To build me up when all these critics and cynics would down me These phony friendships always take in a well in it drown me It's so profound b if you Fake why the hell you around me Y'all hide y'all imperfections, I wear my garbage gladly It never get better but still I be doing it just so that you understand me Just wipe your feet up at the door before you step in my house Keep talking wreck-less ill address this you get punched in the mouth See Hip-Hop had some clever grammar then it turned to slander That elephant up in the room it turned into. Panda Oh the irony the eye in me just light this cig My momma death it made me realize that I need to live [Hook: Snoh Ramos] Like a bird feeling free in the sky where I be oh me Never seen never heard every word every verb to me Like a bird feeling free in the sky where I be oh me Never seen never heard every word every verb to me Cuz you feel my vibe you come inside nowhere to hide it's all of me Cuz you feel my vibe you come inside nowhere to hide it's all of me Strip for me, strip for me, strip for me, but keep your clothes on
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Da Homie E 04:27
Da Homie E [Hook: K. Sparks] What I want What I want What I want Cuz I need your love Cuz I need your love baby baby What I want What I want What I want Cuz I need your love Cuz I need your love baby baby [Verse 1: K. Sparks] My Homie E that be my homie knew me all my life That be the biggest homie lonely only never right He taught me how to bag chips, taught me how to blast clips Bema dreamer see in Jr High we use to push bricks Now it's been a couple years ain't seen him in a couple years Seen him on the corner hold up, now roll the window down Wud up wud up I see you shining homie what it do Wud up wud up I see the wip now let me get in too My wips are Prada Gucci and Loui and can't nobody do me See me posted up with this toolie it be a horror movie But let me talk about you for just a little bit You use to be about that life but now you acting ignorant A yo I'm tryna chill I made a mil cuz easily I'm ghost writing I'm doing films and commercials I do the most writing A yo show money slow money you might as well get no money See we about to get reacquainted let's go money [Hook: K. Sparks] What I want What I want What I want Cuz I need your love Cuz I need your love baby baby What I want What I want What I want Cuz I need your love Cuz I need your love baby baby [Bridge: K. Sparks and Lorri] Banging to the boogie the boogie gets so high Banging to the boogie the boogie gets so fly Banging to the boogie the boogie gets so high Banging to the boogie the boogie gets so fly [Verse 2: K. Sparks] Now I know I said I had to hit the bank and make a deposit But the truth is I tied up them tellers they in the closet Feeling ruthless they toothless duck tape and grab the ropes Put that ski mask on and we ain't hitting slopes Now what's the word or be the price I don't need dirt up in my life You just just another loser shoulda put the ruger to you twice man You like a nagging chick cuz you complain a lot Who taught you how to aim a shot and even cop a chain in hot I'm hot son quick to pop one put the bullet in the chamber But ya lose son when chose one to always live in danger man We'll have it your way do it the hard way that's your fate I rule your spirit now in the physical too late [Interlude: K. Sparks] As the sky falls and the wind calls Flesh of my flesh in these bloody halls Thoughts and fears of our formative years The Home E, which stands for evil is here Chase material gold or save your souls the choice is yours Chase material gold or save your souls the choice is yours [Hook: K. Sparks] What I want What I want What I want Cuz I need your love Cuz I need your love baby baby What I want What I want What I want Cuz I need your love Cuz I need your love baby baby
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Feelin' Away 02:24
Feelin' Away [Hook: K. Sparks and Snoh Ramos] Feeling a way I see you Feeling a way I need you Feeling a way I see you Everyday baby Feeling a way I see you Feeling a way I need you Feeling a way I see you Everyday baby [Verse 1: K. Sparks and Snoh Ramos] Jus around the corner Feeling like I wanna Cuz you got me right You make me like Don't wanna fuss Don't wanna fight I'm Jus around the corner Feeling like I wanna Cuz you got me right You make me like Don't wanna fuss Don't wanna fight right [Hook: K. Sparks and Snoh Ramos] Feeling a way I see you Feeling a way I need you Feeling a way I see you Everyday baby Feeling a way I see you Feeling a way I need you Feeling a way I see you Everyday baby [Verse 2: K. Sparks and Snoh Ramos] But now ya started changing Really not the same and Where is the trust It's such a same Maybe it's us we're both to blame But now ya started changing Really not the same and Where is the trust It's such a same Maybe it's us we're both to blame yeah [Hook: K. Sparks and Snoh Ramos] Feeling a way I see you Feeling a way I need you Feeling a way I see you Everyday baby Feeling a way I see you Feeling a way I need you Feeling a way I see you Everyday baby
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Urban Couture [Verse 1: K. Sparks] They saying greatness about me that be my aura These labels tryna jerk me like Urkel dreaming of Laura Got a, shoot first mentality homie I be the scorer Your girl like bottle service in clubs she living poorer get it Im free-styling he wilding the styles hitting Yet everything that he's spitting is better than they written's Reminiscing and drifting spitting to blend awesome Just cuz you black don't mean you for the people Ben Carson I act different react with it Black Civic I'm the man y'all just tryna be the man y'all Da Brat with it I bought a new house homie you see it's fly vary So many different stories in it that's the library Hello devil this yellow bezel is legendary These demons screaming they see me gleaming that's secondary They wanting tickets to my shows it's getting harder true Now watch em sell out quicker homie than them rappers do [Hook: Kate Stone] [Verse 2: K. Sparks] She be my motivation daily never aimless to see me Stay consistent with the flow now we lamp like a genie I mean the purpose of my verses on this record like it's analogue Did it for the chicks like James Todd Smith catalogue Ain't even a dime or just a nine so they hate And so I tell em like I'm pissing shorty see urinate That's never gon compare, clever when I stare Cheddars never rare, I get the pepper jack forever stack clever cat Smoothest individual shorty you see it's evident And anythings possible baby girl look at the president I'm saying she praying relaying like she flip a pack or two Let's ride the wheels until they fall off just like these rappers do My slang different the game different remain different I'm Pen Griffey with this pen and this paper The style be legendary never shady slap a hater first Just be my secretary on the daily move the paper first I move on em then snooze on em baby wake em up Finest cigars under the stars we be waking up we lampin I said we lampin [Hook: Kate Stone] [Verse 3: K. Sparks] On any given Sunday, don't care what son say Thirty eight up in my pocket dressed to kill on that runway This new game these rappers compromising to ball My new name bad table service I don't cater at all Alotta chicks wanna be married asked my KD what it bring Sometimes you gotta switch up teams just to get the ring Confidence is silent and arrogance is so loud You can't defeat the demons that you playing with and so now I flow now with pronouns I'm grown now behind the tints I graduated my masters all up in common sense It's like a symphony lonely to read the book breezy It's all simplicity homie I make this look easy It's like simplicity homie I make this look easy It's like a symphony lonely to read the book breezy
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Greatness is Complicated [Verse 1: K. Sparks] So it seems This be the city for of broken dreams Gotta be this inner city full of sodomy A prodigy that must been born up into poverty His papa in the air force momma was a school teacher His older brother was focused became a preacher Styles never missed he's disgraced and couldn't wait Smiles don't exist cuz this place is full of hate Went to High School he congregated with the livest survive this Tommy Hilfiger he rocked the visors the sinus Pressure be building up on his mind just Tryna find a way out the ghetto so come and find us A white flag he be waiving up in submission with a white jag He envisioned that he'd be given if he might grab A platinum plaque if he disinigrate This microphone so he invested in a demo tape [Hook: K. Sparks] Feel the pressure its building up on me None the lesser I'm focused you gone see Feel the pressure its building up on me None the lesser I'm focused you gone see [Verse 2: K. Sparks] Now as years passed lyrically he nice on the mic he spit it vicious Surpassing black cats all around him you superstitious Them showcases quick to offend you he sold the tickets No A&R's up in the venue he heard the crickets Pray to God to vanish from the madness Opposite of lavish roaches up in the cabinet's His momma sick he just held her to hold on her It's a cold order he resorting to no sauna Cuz everybody wanna be famous so shamelss Got him going through and it's dangerous so aimless Once upon he was was nameless so painless Nowadays they know what the name is type famous Honestly he yearn for the days he was fame-less Changes he going through'll leave you brainless The pressure building up he need a change or sequel See people can change but people can't change people [Hook: K. Sparks] Feel the pressure its building up on me None the lesser I'm focused you gone see Feel the pressure its building up on me None the lesser I'm focused you gone see [Verse 3: K. Sparks] I'm barely home peeping this zone to grow salary Fairly show just leave him alone to slow gradually Vocal tones grown and shown theres no casualty Skies the limit admit it theres no gravity My daughter staring out the window so mad at me It's hard for her to get the picture here the gallery The game changer livest writer the pride biter With the same anger shine brighter divine lighter Quick deranged singer same banger blind a fighter when I write her Lighter tighter brighter fighter brighter and I write her It's the same music chain fluid deranged to it Put the pain through it shame to it you can't do it I'm formulating this plan to be the man and saying oh God Each line no peace sign times are so hard And then my mother died of cancer rewind And then my brother died too so for them I'm a shine [Hook: K. Sparks] Feel the pressure its building up on me None the lesser I'm focused you gone see Feel the pressure its building up on me None the lesser I'm focused you gone see
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June (Interlude) [Verse 1: K. Sparks] Talking bout the time we can cruise the town She marry marry going round round let me down Talking bout the time we can cruise the town She marry marry going round round let me down Found another lover now she gone away She marry marry going round round never stay Found another lover now she gone away She marry marry going round round never stay She picture perfect looking like a magazine She marry marry going round round what you mean She picture perfect looking like a magazine She marry marry going round round what you mean Now listen baby calm it down don't make a scene She marry marry going round round turning mean Now listen baby calm it down don't make a scene She marry marry going round round turning mean
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credits

released October 15, 2017

1 - Flipside
- Produced by Es-K, Ezeroh1 and K. Sparks
- Written by K. Sparks
- Trumpet by John Culbreth
- Additional Vocals by Snoh Ramos

2 - Blue Nostalgia feat Stephanie Heaghney
- Produced by Es-K and K. Sparks
- Written by K. Sparks
- Guitar and Bass by Max Bronstein-Paritz
- Additional Vocals by Stephanie Heaghney

3 - Pen Griffey
- Produced by Es-K and K. Sparks
- Written by K. Sparks and Kingston
- Additional Vocals by Kingston

4 - Strip 4 Me
- Produced by Es-K and K. Sparks
- Written by K. Sparks
- Additional Vocals by Snoh Ramos

5 - Da Homie E
- Produced by Es-K and K. Sparks
- Written by K. Sparks
- Additional Vocals by Kate Stone
- Additional Vocals by Lorria

6 - Make America Fake Again (Interlude) feat Nation
- Produced by Es-K and K. Sparks
- Written by K. Sparks and Nation
- Trumpet by John Culbreth
- Additional Keyboards by Danny Whitney
- Additional Vocals by Nation

7 - Feelin' Away
- Produced by K. Sparks

- Written by K. Sparks
- Additional Vocals by Snoh Ramos

8 - Urban Couture
- Produced by K. Sparks
- Written by K. Sparks
- Additional Vocals by Kate Stone

9 - Greatness is Complicated/U Say? feat Amelia Wilcox
- Produced by Es-K and K. Sparks
- Written by K. Sparks and Amelia Wilcox
- Outro Vocals and Piano by Amelia Wilcox

10 - June (Interlude)
- Produced by K. Sparks
- Written by K. Sparks

11 - Happily Never After
- Produced by Mac Dusty and K. Sparks
- Written by K. Sparks

12 - Summer In September feat Stephanie Heaghney
- Produced by Es-K and K. Sparks
- Written by K. Sparks
- Guitar and Bass by Max Bronstein-Paritz
- Additional Vocals by Stephanie Heaghney

13 - Sunken Place/Juneteenth
- Produced by Es-K and K. Sparks
- Written by K. Sparks
- Additional Vocals by Snoh Ramos

Executive Producer(s): Es-K and K. Sparks
Mixed, & Mastered by Es-K


Album Reviews:

Underground Press: www.undergroundpress.co.za/component/k2/item/550-k-sparks-urban-couture-album-review

Da Dome:
www.enterdadome.com/single-post/2017/09/30/K-Sparks-Urban-Couture-%E2%80%93-Album-Review-by-Tony-Hanes-DA-DOME

No Depression:
nodepression.com/album-review/urban-couture-underground-gem-mainstream-power

Introverted Black Girl (Audio Review):
soundcloud.com/introverted-blackgirl/introverted-black-girl-can-a-conscious-rapper-get-some-love-k-sparks-urban-couture-album-review

Kid Padi Youtube Review in German:
www.youtube.com/watch?a=&feature=youtu.be&v=EcBtuKoj4zU&app=desktop

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