 Aw, what's up everybody once again, this is Brandon man Sean and I got to talk to you artists and everybody out there about something that y'all got to keep your eyes on because a lot of people are getting finessed this way. Conflict of interest, look out for it, look out in the battlefield, look out the people around you and get an understanding of what that looks like and this snippet is going to be from one of my favorite interviews that I've done thus far with an artist by the name of Lee Jit. I'm just going to go straight to the clip and then I got some things to talk about at the end. Basically they were trying to get me so this is where it comes out to the point where I had to learn quickly. I was signed to the record label as an artist. Now the CEO of the record label came to me individually and tried to manage me. Now a lot of people like they might look at that like what's wrong with that? You know he's trying to, listen first of all is conflict of interest. Conflict of interest. Okay first of all conflict of interest and if anybody's listening they don't know that is a CEO is supposed to worry about his company. If I'm the CEO of my company I don't care about anything else but my company, okay? That's your main priority. That's your job actually to worry about your company. As my manager you got to worry about the artist first. The manager is not the CEO so that's the first conflict of interest. I know if you're doing a negotiation it's going to be for your label and not for me. 100% man. Okay. So it costs the people like entertainment lawyers and things like that like really like your lawyer shouldn't necessarily be your manager's lawyer like there's a whole bunch of those overlays you got to watch. So many and who's paying like if you like say for instance I was using the when I was signed to the record label I was using the record labels attorney. I'm not paying that I'm not paying that that lawyer I don't got that retainer fee. Her loyalty is not to me you feel me? So she might think I'm cool a great artist but at the end of the day who's cutting your paycheck that's who you're going to listen to. So with that being said I didn't sign the contract and when I didn't sign the individual management contract because not only is it conflict of interest but then it's like double dipping because you're getting a salary from the record label and then you get 15% as my manager from everything I make. So think about that I'm like okay and then it's a slap in the face to my brother because Rob is my acting manager. All right now seriously please take heed to the things that were said in that conversation you'll get even more context when you watch the full interview the link will be in the description below and be active at the time the full interview drops but until then conflict of interest is so important to understand. As I mentioned in that video right if you have a manager and you and the manager have the same lawyer that lawyer is going to have a conflict of interest it's hard for them to equally and objectively be on both people's sides and if this lawyer is your manager's lawyer first and then all of a sudden your manager is like hey yeah I got a lawyer you can use my lawyer there's going to be a conflict of interest at place because that person is loyal to somebody business-wise over you and I use the manager scenario because a manager is pretty much involved in some way at least getting a cut off of almost everything an artist is doing and then of course with Lee Jit he showed a completely different scenario where that conflict of interest was taking place there's so many ways that this can be sliced that that might occur you just have to be on a lookout and try to figure out all right how does this benefit the other person and are there some ways where they might be taking advantage of me and it doesn't mean just because it seems like or it could be some kind of conflict of interest taking place that it is a bad scenario but you really have to you have to break down things for yourself analyze for yourself and if you understand yes this is something that does exist well is this somebody that I really trust and am I willing to take that risk if that's cool then it's all good because as always information like this isn't necessarily for you to say hey I can't or won't do this just because it was said it's for you to take it in and analyze your situation and figure out how about make this shake for myself don't forget the full interview will be dropping soon and the link will be in the description below other than that be like this video go ahead hit that like button wait I actually want to say please please please if you have a scenario where you had some sort of conflict of interest and you think you can relate or you know somebody who's had a similar story put it in the comment section below I want to hear those stories because it's something worth sharing all of us would love to hear now back to regularly scheduled programming if you like this video go ahead like button if you like you might as well share and if you're not subscribed do you know what to do hit that subscribe