 What's up everybody once again it's Bram and Sean and this video is brought to you by BramManNetwork.com because I signed myself. Now people have been asking me this question man and they've been asking me this question because Jadakiss has come out and said, artists you know y'all y'all don't need a manager and I'm like hmm okay what do I think about this and I couldn't really find any context he didn't really elaborate and it just seemed like he said yo y'all don't need a manager because they'll allow you to learn more you'll you can get more of the business blah blah blah you can keep more all that good stuff that's what it seemed but it was coming from energy wise but here's my answer man do artists need a manager it depends all this stuff opinions at the end of the day that's why it's hard when you ask these general questions a lot of times artists should I do this should I do this I don't know anything about your situation it depends some artists I was on the artist with a call with an artist a couple days ago she was like yo like I don't want to do this marketing stuff I don't want to do this other stuff I just want to focus on my photo shoots my music and like stay in that pocket right there this is what I love to do perfect that works for her she needs a manager she needs somebody who's gonna control that situation and help handle all those other things that she doesn't want to somebody else they might want to be all up in the business they might want might want to be this super entrepreneurial type person all that stuff but even if you're that type of artist my question is who's gonna manage stuff when you can't manage it because you're performing or you're focusing on the music in the creative aspect you need some kind of partner I don't care if you want to give them the manager title right something like that but you need somebody who has that role that can handle business that you can trust and not only that you need somebody preferably who knows more than you in these areas so I don't know what kind of dynamic the relationship is going to be but when we're talking about scaling and getting to a certain level and being able to build an empire you're gonna need those people that are smarter than you in certain areas and not only smarter than you they might even start off as smart as you but in certain areas but they have more time to spend in that area long term they're gonna be better than you and you need people to be that so if you're trying to be the best person in every category in your business and in your art like what are you trying to do you can't really build much that way and you're gonna be overextending yourself especially in this business in this business oh nah it's a wrap for you you can't be the smartest person in because your team is not gonna be able to really carry the weight and you're gonna stretch yourself out from telling your team like giving them all these specifics around their roles and trying to demand that they do all these things that you need them to do while at the same time trying to do all the things you need to do it doesn't work like that artists y'all need a manager I would default to getting a manager and then maybe getting yourself to a point in your career where you might not need a manager anymore that might be a thing and then you still need people to handle that stuff like you need people to handle certain things so you might call them partners or whatever kind of semantics that you want to run with cool but you need somebody and most artists most artists I think need a manager now that doesn't mean you need a manager to kick your career off that's where the difference is some of y'all are trying to get managers way too early right you need to be able to learn and stay involved in certain stuff and learn certain parts of the business and understand a lot of the reality of it and actually have something worth managing and then we can talk about being a manager so that might be one of the nuances maybe jay kiss was talking about that I would love to hear him elaborate but no I would say most artists need a manager if anything start off with a manager and then once y'all's contract or a certain period goes by maybe y'all decide okay we're gonna move on and you're not gonna get any more managers you're gonna get like a CEO of this section of your business and and the CEO of this section of your business and have a partnership here I don't know what that looks like that's individual to your business as I said it's all subjective at the end of the day but last but not least I will make sure I summarize it for most people I I think you need a manager right you need a manager that traditional role I don't care what you call it but you need somebody who does those things that managers kind of do they're all better at one thing or another that's a whole nother conversation but other than that I would love to know what you guys think as always if you're interested in getting deeper into conversations like these if you want to actually help get your management situation but more so even 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