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SMASHTIME Marching Band on The Daily 10

2008-07-10T22:07:00.002-05:00

Full performance coming soon...

Jim Jones exposes Koch Records on SMASHTIME Radio

2008-06-17T19:07:00.001-05:00

SMASHTIME Saturday's with Rob Kardashian

2008-06-16T21:17:00.000-05:00

Big things once again at 'Smashtime Saturdays" with 'The Daily 10' on E!. Celebrated with my boy JJ who brought out his best friend Rob Kardashian and his Cheetah Girl-friend to the party to host. Michael Yo! from the Yo! on E! played ringside announcer letting the people know that we were in the building... Another weekend in the books, and our party at Body English the nightclub inside The Hard Rock Hotel in Vegas is getting bigger than ever. See you this weekend. You never know who might show up. Get Familiar!!

Yung Berg vs. Bow Wow on SMASHTIME Radio

2008-06-15T12:15:00.001-05:00

Limited Time Only

2008-06-04T20:34:00.000-05:00

It's Offishall... AGAIN... Today I dropped a brand new mixtape alongside my GFN bredren, Konvict Music's newest recruit Kardinal Offishall... It's called "Limited Time Only" and it's hosted by Akon. The "Limited Time Only" mixtape features brand songs, freestyles & remixes by Kardinal Offishall arranged & mixed by myself, with a little Clinton Sparks production as well. Guests artists include Akon, Lindo P, Clipse and Estelle. Kardi's Not 4 Sale album coming real soon, Get Familiar!

Link to download the "Do The Right Thing" mixtape: http://www.sendspace.com/pro/dl/uft8gp

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Rick Ross on SMASHTIME Radio

2008-06-01T14:02:00.002-05:00

JAM'N 94.5 Summer Jam 2008 in Boston

2008-05-31T21:15:00.001-05:00

This past week Boston was on Fire! 1st the Celtics beat out Detroit to make into into the NBA Finals then the #1 radio station in Boston, JAM'N 945 held their annual Summer Jam at the Tweeter Center. The line up was sick and the tickets were sold out. Everyone was on the bill from Rick Ross to Lil' Wayne. Shout out to the JAM'N staff... Shaileen, Geespin, the Ramiro & Pebbles morning show team, Melissa, Chris Tyler, Benny, Pup Dawg, Roy Barboza and of course big guns Cadillac Jack! I was running hectic that whole day from DJing for artists to conducting interviews for SmashTime Radio to introducing my artist Supastar L.T. to all my music buddies and of course clowning around. I DJ'd for Colby O'Donis, Ray-J and Ryan Leslie's performances as well as performed with Jim Jones as hype man and introduced my boy Trey Songs... Nothing feels better than your home town excepting & acknowledging your success and it was incredible to get an awesome response from the crowd of 15,000 people when they introduced me... I'm very proud to be from Boston and I represent it everywhere I go whether I'm on TV or in magazines, websites, radio interviews,etc. Go Sox!!!!! Btw - random thought, I went to go see Dane Cook at Ceasars palace in Vegas a week ago... He is one of the best comedians alive & I'm super proud of his awesome transitions to movies. Anyhow, back to Summer Jam. I got tons of footage here on the site for your viewing pleasure, so enjoy and Get Familiar with Boston!

Colby O'Donis at SMASHTIME

2008-05-25T20:17:00.003-05:00

Once again Konvict music was in the building! This time newbie Colby Odonis came through our Smashtime Saturdays party in Body English at the Hard Rock in Vegas. He performed his hit single "What u got" featuring Akon and his new single produced by yours truly "Don't turn back," and if u missed my interview with Colby on my SmashTimeradio show log onto smashtimeradio.com and Get Familiar! His album will be in stores this July!

944 Magazine Las Vegas May 2008

2008-05-22T13:58:00.003-05:00

Click the image to read the full article, Get Familiar!

II Trill

2008-05-20T19:30:00.000-05:00

Get Familiar! Today my big brother Bun B drops his new album "II Trill." We celebrated the albums release a couple weeks back in Vegas at Smashtime Saturdays in Body English along with myspace.com & the E! Channel (check out video & pics on this blog) but today the album officially drops and I produced the title track on the album "II Trill," which I will be promoting on The Daily 10 today on E!. So support a great guy with an awesome album and go buy the album "II Trill" in stores now! Don't forget Bun B is on my mixtape "Konnected to A Kon" that I'm dropping with Akon featuring all brand new exclusive records all produced by me next month. Just in time for the summer, hot new Ludacris, Fabolous, Clipse, Common, Jim Jones, D-Block, Rick Ross, Lloyd, Yung Joc, Nina Sky, Young Buck, Cassidy, Talib Kweli, Pitbull, Ray-J, Supastar L.T., Slim Thug, Paul Wall, Freeway, Fat Joe and more. You'll be able to download it free here on clintonsparks.com.

Dance tips for Carmen Electra, DJ'n with Duran Duran

2008-05-11T13:10:00.002-05:00

This Saturday was another awesome night at Smashtime Saturday's at the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Vegas. Method Man came through as well as Carmen Electra and I shared the set this with Roger Taylor of Duran, Duran... How crazy is that??? Tony Wang from the Hard Rock hit me earlier in the week asking me "Do you mind if the guy from Duran, Duran DJs with you?" I'm like "are u crazy? They are pop music icons... of course I don't mind" I'm all about 80's music. On the red carpet I gave carmen some dance tips on how you can cabbage patch to Guns N' Roses & she gave me tips on how to always just look straight & smile on red carpets so there's never a picture of you looking dumb... i.e., the pic of me looking up & laughing like a donkey! Stay tuned as we broadcast The Daily Ten on E! for an entire week live from the Hard Rock in Vegas June 9th-13th... That week is going to be insane!

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KLTV: In the studio and in the club

2008-05-09T13:39:00.002-05:00

KarmaloopTV spent an evening with me in my studio previewing my upcoming mixtape and then followed me to a club appearance later that night.

In the studio with Akon and Colby O

2008-05-04T22:46:00.001-05:00

After performing with Akon at Rehab at The Hard Rock Hotel & Casino, we went to the studio to work on mixing and sequencing records for Colby O'Donis' album with my good buddy Exit, who's an amazing engineer. As it stands now I produced 4 records for Colby's album and I have the 2nd single called "Don't Turn Back," which I'll be world premiering on SmashTime Radio this weekend. Kon also played me his album which is gonna be craaaaazy, his first single is gonna be featuring an icon is pop history so stay tuned for that. I may even have a joint on his album too. After listening to his album I played him some of Supastar L.T.'s album music which as you can see in the video clip below, he's feeling it! Look out for that Konvict collabo coming soon.

Akon, the Soprano and the Gossip Girl at Smashtime

2008-05-03T12:29:00.001-05:00

I've been telling you about my party Smashtime Saturday's in Las Vegas at Body English in the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino. Well, its getting bigger & bigger every week! We've had Ne-Yo,Trey Songs, Danny Masterson, Pitbull, Ray-J, Bun B, Duran Duran, Bon Jovi, Carmen Electra, John Krasinski and more. But this weekend was absolutely insane. My brother Akon came through and we shut it down all weekend. Body English was packed and the line was ridiculous! Once the club filled up and me, Sal & Ben entered the party is was on... After an hour of smashing down the party Akon made his way up on stage unannounced... Crowd went Crazy! Now you know I'm not going to let someone get on stage and not rock. He then went into an impromptu performance of all his hits from "Smack that" to "I wanna love you" and of course the record I produced & co-wrote "Sorry, Blame it on me" but that wasn't the end of the Smashing, the next day we headed out to Rehab (massive weekly pool party at the Hard Rock in Vegas) and rocked that as well. Shout out to Leighton Meester from Gossip Girl who hung out on stage with us and dude from Entourage. Can't forget Javon Walker from the Oakland Raiders or Floyd Mayweather aka Hockey Bag Boy who also rocked with us. Now go book your plane ticket, cuz you don't wanna miss another weekend of SMASHTIME. See you in Vegas! Video from this entire weekends festivities coming soon, also, don't forget to check out my radio interview with Akon on Smashtimeradio.com

Iron Man movie premiere party

2008-05-01T11:32:00.001-05:00

I DJ'd the Iron Man movie premiere party at The Roosevelt Hotel in Hollywood last night. Iron Man is expected to do some big numbers at the box office this weekend, so go check it out, this movie is a must see, setting the summer off right for big blockbuster films like the new installments in the Indiana Jones and Batman franchises. They left my boy Ghostface out of Iron Man, but make sure you stay 'till the end of the credits to catch the Samuel L. Jackson cameo, damn that guy is a movie whore!

Nabbed a Justo at the mixtape awards

2008-04-30T19:15:00.007-05:00

The 11th Annual Mixtape Awards ceremony went down last night without a hitch, which was the exact opposite of what happened last year. I won Best Mashup Mixtape DJ, keeping the streak alive of winning a Justo 2 years in a row. Last year I won, Best Club DJ. It's an honor to receive a Justo, which is like the Grammy's for DJ's.

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Shuffle in the T-Dot

2008-04-25T22:42:00.004-05:00

One of the best parties I've done this year, I love the T-Dot, can't wait to go back!

Ioan Grufford & Bun B at SMASHTIME

2008-04-21T17:14:00.009-05:00

The "Fantastic 4's" Ioan Grufford and Matthew Rhys from ABC's "Brothers and Sisters" came through to party at SMASHTIME, they apparently heard that Bun B was in town to host SMASHTIME. They were all in Vegas this weekend to watch the Bernard Hopkins vs. Joe Calzaghe fight. Since Bun B and Hopkins share the same first name (Bernard) as well as the services of Rap-A-Lot CEO J. Prince, the Bunster walked Hopkins out to the ring to get him into a Trill state of mind. Unfortunately Joe Calzaghe devastated Hopkins in 12 rounds with a split decision.

Bun performed a few of his UGK classics like the grammy nominated "International Players," Jay-Z's "Big Pimpin," his new single "That's Gangsta" and of course he went "Down In The Dirty" with me. Video footage of his performance will be coming very soon, so don't forget to check back.

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KLTV: Talking shop with Pusha-T and Travis McCoy

2008-04-16T14:40:00.005-05:00

Pusha-T of Clipse and Travis McCoy of Gym Class Heroes stopped by to chop it up about what they've been up to lately in a two part interview on KarmaloopTV.com

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Ray-J's Album Release Party at SMASHTIME

2008-04-06T00:28:00.004-05:00

Right after the video shoot, Supastar L.T. and I hopped on a plane to make it out to Vegas for my SMASHTIME party at Body English. This week we were hosting Ray-J's "All I Feel" album release party. Brandy came out to celebrate and we debuted Supastar L.T.'s new song featuring Ray-J called "All Around The World." The response was crazy. I can't wait till we put that record out. Video coming soon of the performance, check out a few photos below.

Kardinal Offishal and Akon Dangerous Video Shoot

2008-04-05T12:40:00.011-05:00

Today me and Supastar L.T. went down to Miami for Kardinal and Akon's video shoot for Kardi's new song Dangerous, which is a smash! Gil Green directed it and the concept is a very cool one. The idea for the video is a play off of an old rayban commercial that shows different views from the perspective of the reflection off the sunglasses. Check for me and Supastar L.T.'s cameo. Here are a few pic's from the video shoot, that guy in the last photo his name is Supa Dups, he's really a nice guy, don't mind the finger. Also don't forget to go buy "Dangerous" on iTunes or Amazon.com.

Complex Magazine Adidas Superstar

2008-04-04T14:45:00.005-05:00

Adidas in launching their new Superstar campaign asked “What Makes A Superstar?” and in association with Complex they sought out some of the leaders of our culture and got some answers. In the May issue of Complex each of the superstars gave their answers, they include myself, DJ Neil Armstrong, Yu-Ming, Chris Vidal, Tristan Caruso, Dante Ross, Estelle and Gabriel Urist. Also check out the video interviews on complex.com and on adidas.com.

KLTV: 2-On-1 with Three 6 Mafia at MAGIC

2008-04-01T14:18:00.004-05:00

Interview with Tennessee's Three 6 Mafia in a two part interview for KarmaloopTV.com

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Working with a few new artists

2008-03-10T15:53:00.001-05:00

YESSSSS finally got the oppurtunity to work with some awesome talent from my hometown, Boston. I found to dope rappers, one called Sev-One who's signed to G.E.M.S worldwide and Supastar L.T. who are both incredibly talented artists. I recently dropped a mixtape with Sev (which you can download here: http://www.sendspace.com/pro/dl/i6htq5) called "The Bootleg" and I'm about to release L.T.'s mixtape "The People's Focus." Both mixtapes feature records I've produced and have features from artists like Jadakiss, Junior Reid, Rick Ross, Cassidy and Freeway. So Get Familiar with them cuz they are making some noise!

I'm also working with my boy Jalen Rose (Former NBA player turned ESPN correspondent) who has an artist he's working with named Kristen..She's an R&B singer that I just finished writing and producing 2 records for. She has an amazing voice, look for her coming soon.

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Recap: Ne-Yo at SMASHTIME

2008-03-09T15:52:00.006-05:00