Clinton Charls Sparks (born September 18, 1979) [citation needed] is an American DJ and record producer from Boston, Massachusetts.

He has written and produced songs for a number of notable acts, including Akon, Ludacris, 2 Chainz, Ty Dolla Sign, Lil Uzi Vert, Big Sean, and numerous others.

News; and has held executive positions at a variety of companies including Karmaloop, FaZe Clan, Islide, PingTank, IC Realtech, and Dash Radio.

In July 2020, Sparks co-founded and became the chief business development officer of the newly formed XSET, an esports and lifestyle gaming organization.

[3][6] Run-ins with the law throughout his youth prompted his mother to send him to live with his father in Jr high school, who struggled with alcoholism, in Randolph, Massachusetts.

[3] Eventually, he moved back in to his mother's home and built a recording studio in her basement where he would make original mixtapes and travel up and down the East Coast to hand them out.

[6] An injury sustained while working for UPS required Sparks to undergo spinal surgery, severely limiting his ability to perform manual labor.

[3][4] From his basement studio at his mother's house, Sparks was able to convince major record labels that he ran a successful online radio show.

Around the year 2000, he conducted interviews there with acts like Eminem, Common, Sean Kingston, Talib Kweli, the Wu-Tang Clan, Mobb Deep, the Clipse, and others.

Acts featured on his tapes have included, The Game, Snoop Dogg, Destiny's Child, T.I., Usher, Ciara, Fat Joe, Cam'ron, Kanye West, Jim Jones, Amerie, Ashanti, Ja Rule, Fabolous, and numerous others.

[3][4][13] In March 2006, Sparks signed a worldwide syndication deal with SupeRadio that took his SmashTime Radio show to Canada, Australia, and Europe.

[11] Later that year, he was named a member of the Pepsi DJ Division, a group of DJs who would serve as brand ambassadors and influencers for the company.

[17][21] In 2009, he was featured alongside Jadakiss and Diddy on the Chester French song, "Cîroc Star," becoming an official brand ambassador for the vodka.

[25] Sparks continued writing and producing songs in 2009, including Pitbull's "Shut It Down,"[6] for which he won a BMI Songwriting Award.

[26] He also worked with T-Pain and Leighton Meester and moved his weekly Las Vegas DJ sets to the newly-opened Vanity nightclub in the Hard Rock Hotel.

At the grand opening of his "Awesome Party," Sparks made his entrance by being lowered from a helicopter through the retractable roof of the hotel onto his DJ set.

[32][33] He received his first Grammy nomination for his production work on Lady Gaga's "Bloody Mary" which appeared on the album, Born This Way.

[47] In March 2015, Sparks was named president of PingTank, a tech startup with an app that created animations to layer over photos and videos.

[51][52][53][54][55][56][57] In August 2016, he and Joey Bandz were featured on the Chocolate Droppa (Kevin Hart's musical pseudonym) song "Saturday Night".

[58][59] In 2017, Sparks began his own branded party ("Get Familiar Fridays") and residency at Club Shrine inside the Foxwoods Resort Casino in Connecticut.

As part of his work with FaZe Clan, Sparks helped bring hip hop stars like Yo Gotti, DJ Paul,[69] Pitbull, Swae Lee,[70] and Offset[71] into the esports and gaming sphere as investors and participants.

In July 2020, he left FaZe Clan to become the chief business development officer at XSET, a separate gaming organization that he co-founded with Greg Selkoe, Wil Eddins, and Marco Mereu.

[83][84] In 2024, he became the CEO of the Global Gaming League,[85] where he focuses on expanding opportunities for gamers worldwide and promoting growth of esports as a mainstream form of entertainment.