KC & Jojo, Silk & More Publishing Royalties

More than twenty-five years after they were recorded, the songs in this catalog earn more today than they did a decade ago, and they now earn across three separate streams. This is the publishing side of a catalog of 1990s and 2000s R&B hits recorded by Silk, LSG, K-Ci & JoJo, and Gerald Levert, and it collects mechanical royalties, digital-synchronization fees, and performance royalties rather than leaning on any single type. Annual income has more than doubled since 2017, a compound annual growth rate of 19% over the trailing five years, driven by rising streaming and an increase in how often these songs are used in streaming video and social content.

That digital-sync growth is the modern engine. It is streaming-video and social synchronization, the songs being used in YouTube, TikTok, and Facebook content, not traditional film and television sync licensing, which is a minor line here. This digital-sync income has climbed roughly sevenfold since 2017 and now rivals mechanical royalties as the catalog's largest income type. 

The catalog also renews itself. Newer artists keep building on it: Smiley's 2025 "2 Mazza," featuring Drake, is built on Silk's "Let's Make Love," and Gucci Mane's "Meeting" interpolates "Meeting in My Bedroom." Each new record that reworks the catalog generates fresh mechanical income on top of the originals. 

For an investor, this is a quarter-century of durable R&B songs earning across mechanical, digital sync, and performance, with a multi-year growth record, a fast-rising streaming-video component, and a live pipeline of new interpolations feeding the same songs.

The catalog runs on a set of R&B records that have become genre standards, most of them rooted in the late 1990s and 2000s.

Silk is its backbone. The Atlanta group, discovered by Keith Sweat, became one of the most successful R&B vocal groups of the decade, and a large share of the catalog is theirs, led by "Meeting in My Bedroom" and "If You" (No. 13 on the Billboard Hot 100), both from their 1999 platinum album Tonight, alongside "Let's Make Love," "We're Callin' You," "Tonight," "Don't Go," and several more. Smooth, hook-driven quiet-storm R&B was Silk's signature, and these are among its most durable examples.

"My Body" comes from LSG, the late-1990s supergroup of three established solo stars, Gerald Levert, Keith Sweat, and Johnny Gill. Released in 1997 as the lead single from their double-platinum debut Levert.Sweat.Gill, it reached No. 4 on the Hot 100 and spent seven weeks at No. 1 on the R&B chart.

"Crazy" is a K-Ci & JoJo single. The brothers Cedric and Joel Hailey first rose to fame fronting the influential R&B group Jodeci before becoming one of the era's most dependable hitmakers as a duo. Released in 2001 from their platinum album X, "Crazy" reached No. 11 on the Hot 100 and found a second audience on the Save the Last Dance soundtrack.
Gerald Levert anchors a further cluster. The son of O'Jays co-founder Eddie Levert and himself a member of LSG, he was a fixture of R&B radio for two decades. The catalog holds his "Thinkin' Bout It" (1998, No. 2 R&B and No. 12 on the Hot 100), "Taking Everything" (1999, No. 11 on the Hot 100), and "Callin' Me."

The catalog also reaches beyond its core into hip-hop and later R&B. "Please Excuse My Hands" (2008) is a Plies single featuring Jamie Foxx and The-Dream that reached No. 8 on the R&B chart; "Fuckn With Me" (2016) is a cut by the veteran R&B singer Tank; and there are singles from Jeremih, Next, Ann Marie, and Tamar Braxton. The newest material comes from a younger generation reworking the older songs: Smiley's "2 Mazza" (2025, featuring Drake), built on "Let's Make Love," and Gucci Mane's "Meeting" (2020), which interpolates "Meeting in My Bedroom." A group of late-1990s solo R&B singles rounds out
 

How This Investment Works. As the winning bidder, you will collect 100% of payments until you receive the fixed amount of $200,000 from this asset. 

Early Repayment. The seller of this asset can repay the remaining advance balance at any time. For example: If after two years, this asset has paid you $70,000 and the seller wants the royalty stream back, they can pay you $130,000 to reclaim the royalties.

This catalog cannot be added to the Secondary Market of The Exchange. 

Earnings Note.1H2025 and 2H2024 each include a TikTok payment on "Crazy," of $9,783 and $3,440 respectively. Any similar payments going forward will be owed to the buyer.