YFN Lucci, Mozzy, and More - Songwriting Royalties

This is a catalog that's settled into annual steadiness. These songs spread across YFN Lucci's Atlanta run, Mozzy's Sacramento street rap, and a longer tail of collaborations.

The early years had the rhythm you'd expect. Wish Me Well 3 hit the Billboard top 50 in late 2020, earnings peaked in 2021, and the years since have brought the usual settling, the quiet test of which songs stay in rotation. That test is largely behind it now. Trailing-twelve-month earnings and the three-year average land within 1% of each other. 

Inside that stability, the lead is still climbing. "Love Me or Hate Me" is up roughly 19% year-over-year, nearly five years after release, and the driver isn't a sync placement or a one-quarter event. It's organic streaming growth across the platform stack: Pandora nearly doubled on this track, Spotify nearly doubled, and Apple Music is holding steady at the top. The kind of compounding that comes from a song finding a permanent place in listening habits, not a flash moment.

The depth holds up underneath. Roughly 40% of recent income came from outside the top five tracks, a long bench of catalog cuts continuing to pull weight while the lead does the heavy lifting up front.

The top track is still finding listeners. The rest of the catalog keeps earning. And an overall run rate that has barely moved in three years.

"Love Me or Hate Me" is a solo cut from YFN Lucci's Wish Me Well 3, the third installment in his flagship mixtape series. Released in December 2020 at the peak of Lucci's commercial run via Think It's A Game / Warner Records, the project debuted inside the Top 50 of the Billboard 200 with guest features from Yungeen Ace, Mozzy, Latto, and Yo Gotti. The same project includes "Hate's Real," a collaboration with Boosie Badazz that pairs Lucci's Atlanta sound with one of Southern street-rap's most established voices.

"Free Yatta" is a Mozzy track featuring Yatta from his 2017 album Fake Famous (Mozzy Records / EMPIRE), the project that cemented Mozzy's standing in Sacramento street rap, with guest spots from YG, G-Eazy, Jadakiss, and YFN Lucci. Yatta, a fellow Sacramento rapper, was incarcerated at the time, making the song a dedication cut. Demand was strong enough that Mozzy and Yatta released "Free Yatta, Pt. 2" in 2019 with an official music video. Mozzy has continued to grow commercially since, including his first Top 10 R&B/Hip-Hop album.