Pop Smoke, Lil TJay, Luciano, + more - Songwriting Royalties

This asset earns from three rap scenes at once. Pop Smoke's "Mannequin" featuring Lil TJay anchors the New York side. DigDat's "Air Force" anchors a UK drill spine, and German rapper Luciano's "Drilla," from his 2021 album AQUA, opens a third axis on the continent.

The last twelve months need unpacking. Through 2024, the catalog earned mostly from UK streaming. Then in 2025, a global collection agent (AMRA) began routing international streaming income to the catalog mid-year, adding close to half of the trailing year's total against essentially nothing before. A single Q4-2025 catch-up payment from Germany (GEMA) added more to "Drilla." Neither reflects new listenership; both are collections catching up to where the songs already earn. International flows have settled into a stable rhythm.

Strip those catch-up collections out, and the streaming side is settling into its long-tail rhythm. "Air Force," seven years on from its UK chart debut, has held remarkably steady. "Mannequin" has eased from its post-launch peak; "Wow," Tion Wayne's 2021 cut, is further along the same arc.

The breadth runs deeper than the headliners. The top five make up about 75% of recent earnings; the rest spreads across deep cuts. Geography mirrors the three scenes — UK 40%, Germany 25% (Drilla plus UK drill's German fanbase), US 8% (almost entirely Mannequin) — with a long tail reaching 180 separate countries.

You're buying a catalog potentially past its steepest fall, with the data only now starting to show its full shape. The international lines that activated in 2025 are catching up to where the songs already live, and life of rights stretches that out for decades. Most of the earning life is still ahead.

"Mannequin," featuring Lil TJay, appears on Pop Smoke's posthumous 2020 debut Shoot for the Stars, Aim for the Moon. The track marks a departure from his signature drill sound, leaning into melodic R&B-tinged hip-hop with sing-song deliveries over flex-meets-flirtation lyrics about luxury and a woman as beautiful as a mannequin. Never released as a single, it charted on the Billboard Hot 100 as part of the album's broader takeover — Shoot for the Stars debuted at #1 on the Billboard 200 and earned a Best Rap Album nomination at the 2021 Grammys. The album later went multi-platinum, and "Mannequin" has accumulated hundreds of millions of streams as a fan-favorite deep cut — often cited as evidence of the artistic range Pop Smoke was developing before his death at 20.

"Drilla" is a track from German rapper Luciano's 2021 album AQUA. A Universal Music Germany signee, Luciano is one of the top commercial hip-hop artists in the German-speaking market. The song leans into the UK/NY drill sound with Luciano's laid-back melodic flow, mixing German lyrics and English ad-libs over street-life and loyalty themes. "Drilla" peaked at #8 on the German Official Charts in 2021; AQUA charted strongly across the DACH region (Germany, Austria, Switzerland).

"Air Force" is a 2018 UK drill track by DigDat, a South London rapper and key voice in the late-2010s drill scene. The original entered the UK Singles Chart at #93 in September 2018; a remix featuring Krept & Konan and K Trap pushed it to a #20 peak that December, cementing DigDat's place in the scene.

Exchange Rates. Royalties for this asset are reported by PRS in Great British Pounds (GBP). To calculate royalty payments in U.S. Dollars (USD), Royalty Exchange applies the average historical exchange rate for the distribution month (via X-rates.com). Future royalties will be paid to Royalty Exchange in GBP converted to USD upon receipt and then paid in USD to the winning investor. The receiving bank may increase the exchange rate by up to 2.5% as a transaction fee. 

Distribution Schedule: PRS distributes two types of distributions, labeled “main” and “mini”. Main distributions are made four times per year: April, July, October, and December. Mini distributions are paid monthly. Historically, these payments did not occur every month; starting in August of 2025, they are expected to occur every month. As the winning bidder, you'll be entitled to all main and mini distributions. 

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