 If you're an artist looking for a manager, here's the ugly truth that you need to understand when you try to find one. They do not have to like your music or even your genre. If you don't believe me, just look at some of the most successful rappers of the early 2000s, OutKaz. Their manager said he couldn't even understand them. Being from New York managing OutKaz at the time, first of all, there was a complete language barrier. I know what the fuck nobody was talking about, sitting around the dungeon with all of them. I sit in the room some days with all of them and be looking around like, I don't know what the fuck y'all talking about, but okay. I had a conversation with a manager whose artist you would very likely recognize and he said he doesn't listen to that type of music. So what do you need in a manager? You need a manager who's competent, who knows how to do business and they need to believe in you. Not necessarily love your music, but believe in you and what you can accomplish, which goes deeper than that.