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Happy New Year

Happy New Year everybody! I hope you all had a great 2008, I know I did, and I intend on 2009 being even better! I have a lot of great stuff happening and of course a gang of projects dropping this year. A lot of people hit me inquiring about new mixtapes and when ill be dropping. Well, first off I have a new phone number for anyone to hit me up so I can personally let you know what's happening... that number is 617-671-0670, so hit me anytime.

So about the mixtapes, I have multiple mixtapes that I'm getting ready to drop in the next 2 months that I'm excited about. I am wrapping up an awesome project with my boy Travis McCoy from Gym Class Heroes (if your not familiar, this is an authentic MC that some may not recoginize because he's in a band, but trust me if you were unfamiliar you will definitely be familiar when we drop). Also any true hip hop head will be a fan of the concept we are running with. Shout out to the legend Jazzy Jeff (Hint). Speaking of Travis McCoy, I just finished his cousin Tygas mixtape which has exclusive features Lil' Wayne. I told him that people don't really know much about who he is so we'll be clearing that up and answer some questions on this mixtape. I also linked up with my brother Rick Ross and E-Class to put together a new Poe Boy project featuring Rick Ross, Flo-Rida, Brisco and the Poe Boy roster as well as I just finished a mixtape with Talib Kweli promoting his group Strong Arm Steady.

Anybody that's a fan of my hip pop rockstar mixtape series should be into my 3rd installment which I'm still working on and I have my boy Lil' Jon involved with this one... Last but not least, well at least for the 1st 6 weeks of 2009 the project I'm most proud of and worked the hardest on is my new yet to be titled mixtape album featuring all new production by myself featuring artists like Ludacris, Rick Ross, Jim Jones, Common, Fabolous, D-Block, Supastar L.T., Yung Joc, Lloyd, Ray-J, Sean Kingston, Cassidy, Bun B, Paul Wall, Kardinal Offishall and of course Akon which will be dropping in February. Oh and of course the Clipse will be on this project which you may have already heard the leak titled "Still Got It 4 Cheap" which is the single from this project. All of these things are just to kick off 2009 and get ya'll ready for my official album dropping later in the year. I also have a number of other mixtape projects aside from the forementioned that I'll be dropping a little later with Fabolous and Sean Kingston.

I'll also be introducing to the world my artist who goes by the name of Supastar L.T., we got HITS!!! I will be introducing him to ya'll on that mixtape album project I just mentioned as well as releasing his mixtape simultaneously. Trust me, if you know anything about me then you know I do not get involved with wackness and to be honest I've decided I was not going to work with an artist ever again about 2 or 3 years ago because I've tried many times only to deal with ungrateful, unappreciative, impatient people that don't get it, as talented as they are, they just didn't have faith and it became more of a headache so that was the point I decided to focus on ONLY me instead of trying to make others stars, I mean let's face it, there's no one better to invest in than yourself. I guess it just took me awhile to figure it out. Anyhow I met this dude and was extremely impressed. He's from Houston, lived in New Orleans amnd now resides in my hometown of Boston and incase it ran through you mind, I wouldn't take on an artist because I felt the need to, I got involved because he is that Dope!

I also plan on dragging some more of these rock bands into the mixtape world like the Fall Out Noy project I did. BTW, all of these mixtapes are available for free download on this website (www.clintonsparks.com). Anyhow, I have so much more to share with you all but I'll just leave it at the mixtape update for now. I am in the airport on my way to Shanghai to smash it down for New Years Eve with my boy Ben Lyons and CIROC Ultra Premium Vodka at M1NT, so you know its going to be smash-time in Shanghai. BTW, on New Years day I'm on a tv show with Paula Abdul on MTV titled Paula Abdul's RAH Cheerleading competition, of course, I'm the DJ on the show. Don't forget every week in Las Vegas I do a huge party called SmashTime Saturday's in Body English the nightclub inside the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino along with my partners from the The Daily 10 on E!, Sal, Ben & Catt, come Party with us!! Get Familiar, Sparks, out!

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Still Got It 4 Cheap

New music off of my new GET FAMILIAR mixtape dropping the top of '09, get familiar with "Still Got It 4 Cheap" featuring Clipse and Pharrell produced by yours truly, Clinton Sparks. CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD NOW

Theater Of The Mind In Stores NOW!!!

I was lucky enough to work on Ludacris' new album Theater Of The Mind, which was released today. Myself and my engineer Kamau Georges originally did 2 records. "Call Up The Homies" was the one that made it. In a few months, DTP plans to release a special version of the album that may contain a bonus joint that we produced as well, so let's hope for that, cuz it's a great record featuring Criss Angel. This album also marked the 1st time that Kamau mixed a record that I produced on a major album release, so congrats to the big man! Yaaaaooo, you're know rocking with Kaaamaaauu, Get Familiar!

Theater Of The Mind, the most important album ever recorded by Disturbing Tha Peace CEO and DTP/Def Jam recording artist Ludacris and it's in stores NOW!!! co-starring Lil' Wayne, Floyd Mayweather Jr., Jamie Foxx, The Game, T.I., Chris Brown, Nas, Jay-Z, Chris Rock, Common, Sean Garrett, T-Pain, Plies, Rick Ross, Spike Lee, Playaz Circle, & Willy Northpole. Featuring a musical score provided by myself along with DJ Toomp, The Runners, Don Cannon, StreetRunner, Darkchild, Wyldfyer, Trackmasters, Swizz Beatz, DJ Premier, 9th Wonder and DJ Paul, the album is theatrical, conceptual-wise and every song you hear sounds like a scene from a movie! So go out TODAY and support hip-hop, in stores, online and iTunes, Get Familiar!

BlackBerry T-Mobile Luxe Club: DC

Did a blackberry event in Washington, D.C., at the Shadow Room with Justin Bobby from the Hills... It's crazy how people get paid to come to the club just because you can see them on tv. Not for a special talent but just because. Now I'm not saying he has no talent because much like you that read this I was unfamiliar with the dude in the 1st place but when it came to doing something in the club, not so much going on! Oh Well, that's life! Aside from that he was a cool dude and the people in the club at the Shadow Room were cool as well as the staff and the owners. Shout to Ernest Skinner!

Anyhow, I'm in France now on a train to the airport to fly to Switzerland then back to France for a couple more gigs then I'll be back to the states on Nov. 15th in San Jose to Smash down the 1st stop on the XBOX 360 LIPS "I'm With The DJ Tour..." Little sleep, lots of work... Get Familiar!

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Busy Weekend

Busy weekend! 1st Smashed it down on a yacht in San Fran on Friday with my boy Sean Kingston then me and him jumped on a plane to Las Vegas to celebrate Smashtime Saturdays 1 year anniversary as well as Halloween at Body English inside the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino. (BTW - Watch the video coming soon! What DJs do that??). Then We started writing some records for his new album which are coming out Awesome! We got so many records we might do another album together before his official album. Then Sunday I hung out with my boy Nelly in Vegas to celebrate his bday. We discussed ideas for a new direction musically in his career and you would be surprised to hear what he's willing to do... You will inevitably Get Familiar with that but then we went to the club and rocked with my boy DJ Vice (aka my twin brother). Anyhow that was my weekend. Check out the video & pics. Hope u enjoy.

I am now off to go film a new television show with Paula Abdul for MTV in New York which will air in January. Its a Cheerleading/Dance competition. Pics & video to follow soon....Shouts out to France & Switzerland....See ya'll this weekend!! Owwwwwwww!!! Sparks, Out!

Video: Theatre Of The Mind Coming Soon!

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