I never stop promoting & I never assume someone knows who I am or what I've accomplished. As a matter of fact, although some people consider me a popular DJ that has achieved considerable success, I still feel like & still work everyday as if I'm still trying to get on. Maybe I'm extremely afraid of failure or I'm to naïve to see I've actually made it. Whatever the case I always work as if I'm trying to prove myself & convince you on why you should be a fan of my work. I never take a supporter, listener, fan for granted. I continually feel like I must work harder to keep u listening....ah, there's that word "listening" again. You never know who's "listening".

Well, it seems as if a lot of people are listening to what I have been doing. Case & point. A kid by the name of Ben Lyons from NY who was working for a music trade magazine was a fan of my mixtapes & was heading up a DJ panel for his mags conference, so he reached out to me along w/ kid capri, jus ske & some other DJs to participate. Now I didn't know this kid but because of his enthusiasm about my mixtapes & his girl @ the time being a friend of mine I agreed to travel to NY on my own dime to be apart of this panel. (Okay, another side note. A week before this panel Eminem was going to be doing a show in Boston, my hometown & was going to bring me on stage in front of my city & big me up....trust me, I wanted to cancel this mystery panel that some kid I don't even know asked me to do but I am a person of my word & wasn't going to leave him hanging so I painfully had to tell Shady I will not be in Boston that day then coincidentally there was a snowstorm that day driving to NY but I still went) Anyhow, the panel was decent & Ben was extremely excited to have me apart of it & quite frankly I was happy to be there & kick it w/ capri & jus ske. Now, Fast Forward yrs later the kid Ben Lyons turns out to be the son of the popular movie critic Jeffrey Lyons unbenounced to me & he gets a job as movie critic for the E! Channel. They eventually have a mtg & the executive producer of The Daily Ten says to Ben " I need someone like you that can do for us what u do for movies but for music" Bens immediate response is "We have to get Clinton Sparks" the rest is history. You never know who's listening.

A couple of yrs back I did a pretty big mixtape w/ Kanye West titled "touch the sky". I was on MTV as a guest for it. It was featured on every website, mags,etc. Now when I make these CDs I'm for the most part making them for 2 reasons. 1 is because I'm just a creative person that always wants to be working & create cool new music if for nothing else my own listening pleasure & 2. To feed the streets w/ hot new shit. We all know or @ least assumed mixtapes were this underground, street thing we were doing but you never know who's listening & recently a band that wasn't as big then when I dropped the CD just so happened to be listening & now have become one of the most popular bands on the world & called me 3 weeks ago to do a mixtape w/ them. That band.......... Falloutboy.

I do a huge party in Las Vegas every Saturday in Body English @ the Hard Rock hotel & casino & there are constantly major celebrities in my party but there are also big corporate execs, Promoters for other clubs & even TV execs. A few weeks back a host comes to me while I'm spinning & says "Can u autograph one of your mixtapes for this guy, he's a huge fan of yours" naturally I agree to sign it. 10 minutes later the guy I signed a CD for comes over to show his gratitude & gives me his business card. He happened to be the head purchaser for Target ( you know the main person that it would be great to be cool with if say you wanted to launch a clothing line or any kind of product for that matter.)

I get a call from Telepictures, the production company that produces the Ellen show, Tyra,etc. Why would they call you ask??? Well, seems they are listening too. Based off my interviews on my radio show they wanted to meet me to discuss doing a talk show w/ me as the host. Now whether this happens or not isn't the point, its merely to show you the windows of oppurtunity.

The moral of this blog is take pride in your work & treat everything you do like its your only shot to proove your worthy to be listened to or be a fan of. There are a lot of people out there doing the same thing your doing & people can be their fan just as much as they can be yours. Stand out. Make yourself the obvious choice & respect & value them. Its hard enough to convince someone to rock with you but its a job to keep them rocking!!!! No days off for you because your job is to help them enjoy their days off...... Get Familiar!

.......Now get to work because you never know who's listening!