 What's up everybody once again it's Brand Man Sean and I'm back with another episode of Inside the Network where we share exclusive content from Inside of Brand Man Network dot com. Now I have a snippet from a very special interview that I did with Mike Millions. This interview was almost two hours long but this snippet right here is just one of my favorite parts of the interview. If you don't know who Mike is, he's an artist manager, dude has a great perspective on the game just from all the lessons right, the wealth he's of knowledge he's gained from what he did right, like the movement and shaking he's done through the game so far. This clip covers the difference between business, friends and even family relationships when it comes to your music career in a way I honestly haven't really seen people break down and I think it's going to be extremely valuable for not only how you learn to navigate right throughout the industry but how you perceive things and take things on in general. Let's go ahead and check this out and I'll talk to you at the end. I like that you said that though, that's meaningful because there's a lot of situations, even before I was like dedicated into the music industry I would have homies that are moving throughout and they will be involved in certain situations but they would tell me like how they feel in terms of thinking that they were supposed to have this situation or not being invited to a certain party and it's like man I do all this work and you already probably not getting paid for a lot of these interns out here and you can't. And don't get offended, do not get offended because it's just, it just tells you gotta put in more work. That's why I'm here today because just like you said, okay I know him. He was in my car going to clubs, not every day, not on a consistent basis but I know you before you became K-Camp to the world. I know you as your first name and I know you as, you know, I know you so I don't know you like we're not best friends but I know you so I've seen you, I've seen you going so now you're a celebrity, you're K-Camp to the world, you know you're just top celebrity so it's like, you know things change, you're personal friends, it's like they on this side and now you got your entourage and your business friends like if you're an artist and you're a celebrity you got your personal friends, the personal friends got their own life going on so it's like they don't, they don't really, like they care about you but it's like they got their own stuff going on around here so it's like you can't get offended if they're not supporting you, how your business friends are supporting you. So yeah, we all got our personal friends, this is us being the celebrity or being the famous person and then you got your entourage, the girls, the groupies and then you got your business friends, your business associate with managers, your PRs, your role managers, your assistant, secretary, all that type of stuff so those are the ones that's really tied in your career. Friends, they want friends, we're supported but we got our own thing going on too, you know what I mean? We don't like our business, I got a business partner now, you don't even like going out to the clubs, you feel me? Like he's happy for me, he's supported for me but that's not his lane and I can't force him to, you know what I mean? Now if I say oh boom we're about to go to the biggest club in the city and do this and that, he might show up but it's like and I know deep down in my heart he's moving for me but that's just not it. He there for you, more so but he's not there for what comes with it. A lot of people are supported with you so as people are not supporting you, I don't want you to think they're not supporting you because they don't care about you, it's just that they're not really, that's not their world, you remember me? When I do this music stuff and this industry stuff and certain people don't support me, I don't get offended because that's not their world, that's not, they don't understand it, they don't know what comes with it, they just think that we going out, we having fun, they don't know that side yet so it's like you can't expect them, they don't support you the way you want them to support you, don't get offended. It's not tied in with that word yet, you just have to make them understand you feel me? Just like the same way with my mom, like my mom she supports me, my son, you feel me? But she don't know what I, she don't know what comes with this whole industry stuff. I'm the first one in the family doing this. I'm probably the only one. So she don't know what comes with it. There's nobody that she could go into in her family, in her friends or in her circle would be like, oh, what do I need to learn? So I could tell my son it's all about, oh, well, you say he doing it. So I guess we're just, you know, I'm gonna be a mother, she gonna be a mother and tell me, oh, we'll get together, you know, but at the same time, I gotta make it prove it to her be like, okay, I'm doing this is what I'm doing. But sometimes as a man, we want to, we want to, we want to tell them the finishing product, you feel me? Because right there by me, I don't want, like, especially to my mom, I don't want to make my parents proud. So it's like, yeah, I don't want to give them steps by steps. I just want to wake up to Friday. I just want to wake up be like, mom, so me and that on my account, where you want to go? You feel me? That's why I want to do a mom here. Yeah. Yeah, I feel you. Plus, you don't you tell them about certain steps in the process, they might start worrying. You know, like, especially when I first had my first artist, when it ended bad, you know, but I forgive him. And when I, you know, when mothers, especially African mothers, they care. They don't want to see their son. Like, you know, my mother wouldn't do a lot dealing with me, you know, just having me from the from child and just just before even before I was born. So it's just like, she just wanted me to go the right way. So if I'm not going according to her plans, like, it's like, she gets a little worried, but it's like, you know, what mother doesn't get worried when you're not what she wanted. But they think you should do that. Like, I'm 28. I'm gonna dance, be married with kids, have a whole house like mine. It doesn't work like that yet. It doesn't work like that. But I'm alive. I ain't dead. And I ain't in jail. Yeah. So are you building? And I'm building 100%. I'm not asking you for money. So that's for real. All right. All right. I got a few things that I got to talk about this man. I love this snippet. And of course, if you want to watch the entire interview, you can check it out on brandmannetwork.com. But one of the things that I want to start with is just how he broke down your friends and them supporting you or the lack of support from your friends, because just making it clear that yo, they have their own lives and they don't even understand what's going on in this industry. They, they, you know, a lot of times think you're just having fun, right? They see bottles or see clubs or they see the artists and a lot of that stuff. It looks fun and creative, but it's real work. So they don't even understand sometimes what you're going through the level of achievement you have, but look, leaving at the end of the day, they got their own lives. So I think that's important to touch on because a lot of times I hear artists and just people in general talk about their friends not supporting them like they think they should or think they would. And this is why we always say you got to get real fans. But then we're talking about the also on the other end, you have business associates and friends who will be supporting you more in your business, but you also have to realize, look, they're incentivized to do so more so because they aren't working somewhere else. They're working and trying to move to move themselves up in an industry as well. It's not bad or good. It just is what it is. At the end of the day, you just of course have to still be able to manage and understand that difference, right? That that part of him talking about, look, I know this dude, we kind of homies and we friends, but I'm not his right hand man. And he has other people that are business related. And this is business. Like we get mixed up sometimes in music because people that they're dealing with that might not be friends and like we're friends are still business. People are a part of the business. It's a company. A company is a company of people. And as the artist, as the artist takes care of people around them and other people take care of people around them, you have to realize that's a part of their job. Sometimes it's not about choosing you over them, right? If you're not the top of the person on a list of who we give free tickets to is because of the reality of there's other priorities to get the business side of things done that doesn't make you more or less of a friend. And that's just some of the touchy stuff that we get into, but even also the family, right? And the way he talks about the family, whereas look, his mom doesn't even know, right? What's going on in the music industry? Once again, it's just a whole different level of understanding. So understanding beyond that, that people will support you how they know how to support you. A lot of times there might be that conflict where you want to be supported one way, but they might not know how to support you that way. So you got to be able to communicate that because at the end of the day, this music thing, there's such a blurred line between the friends, the family, the business associates, if you don't start to get clarity on that and understand how to communicate, right on each level to each different type of person, then you'll likely just be playing yourself. So watch this interview back like multiple times. If you ever forget, you feel like you ever get something twisted because Mike really hit it on the head again in a way that I hadn't heard people talk about, especially since he was breaking down a particular situation with him and how he had to learn, you know, you know, yeah, man, we had some times together. I didn't gave him plenty of rise and now he's up here in his career. But there's this distance that gets created. He really talks and touches on why obviously in this snippet, but he expands on even more so, you know, on the full interview. So if you want to check that out, of course, again, brandmannetwork.com, we help artists develop their fan base, build their brand and to gain that infrastructure so they can continue to build and develop over and over and over again. And once again, this is another episode of inside the network. If you liked this video, go ahead and like button. If you like it, you might as well share it. And if you're not subscribed, you know what to do. Hit that subscribe button.