Artist Jayshonna and her former manager Lanay, once friends, fell apart over incomplete tasks and control issues. Jayshonna quit her day job in February to pursue music full-time but says Lanay failed to deliver on basic management work. Karamo explores how the friendship became a professional disaster.
Lanay was supposed to be Jayshonna's manager, but Jayshonna recently fired her. Let's all listen to the voice memo that Jayshonna left Lanay 2 weeks ago.
I can't keep reminding you to do the shit that you're supposed to do. I need a manager who is going to be like, okay, who's actually going to listen to me, who's going to make a plan, who is going to give me a plan because I need plans. If you cannot work with an artist who needs plans, then you cannot work with me. And that's what I'm trying to tell you. You cannot be my manager if you cannot handle plans. And you can also not be my manager if you ever, ever, ever fix your fucking lips to tell me that you have control over my fucking music. No, you don't. No, you don't, Lanay.
Ooh, Jayshonna, that was an intense voicemail. So please tell me from your point of view what happened.
So first of all, I said what I said and I regret nothing. The situation is basically, you know, me and Lané have been friends for a while and we started working together. She was supposed to be my manager, supposedly my manager, and it's not giving that. I'm not getting my content, I'm not getting paperwork signed, I'm not getting any of the things I feel like I need as a client.
Mm, got it. So why do you need a manager?
First of all, Karamo, if nobody knows, I'm the last poet and it's not my fault I'm lyrical, I'm good with words and rhymes Verbs and spinning up a parable. I probably personify the type of bars that's jelling you. So that's why, 'cause I'm—
Work, it was cute. That went right in. That was cute, okay. I live.
But like, oh, and that's me. And the thing is really like, I'm invested in my craft now. I quit my job in February to do what I love full-time. I need a team behind me that's gonna support me, but only if they gonna do it right.
