E-40, Federation, G-Eazy, + more - Publishing Royalties

Hyphy started as a Bay Area expression and then became a movement. Hip-hop group The Federation's "Hyphy" was its anthem. By 2006, E-40 had taken the hyphy sound platinum and to No. 3 on the Billboard 200 with My Ghetto Report Card.

This catalog holds publishing royalties from that movement. "Yay Area" and "Go Hard or Go Home," the two biggest earners, come from that album. "Hyphy" and "Go Dumb" are here too, along with a 2021 G-Eazy song and tracks recorded by Snoop Dogg, DJ Shadow, Paul Wall, YFN Lucci, and others across 69 titles.

Streaming carries this catalog. It made up 65% of the last twelve months on about 197 million plays a year, and "Yay Area" alone has held above $645 every year since 2021. Reported earnings rose 8.6%, but that gain came from placements, not streams: two licenses on "Hyphy" and "Go Dumb" brought in about $535 of the $2,225. Strip one-offs from both years and earnings are softening about 7%, with streaming down 12%.

Licensing, at 24% of the period, has never stopped. Warner Brothers, ABC Studios, Amazon, and an ad agency have all placed these songs; MTV has paid across 17 of them, and Red Bull licensed twice, in 2024 and 2025. Screen use accounts for 42% of everything the catalog has earned, and the largest single placement paid $6,338, more than four times a full year of streaming.

The result is a durable floor with real upside on top.

These 69 songs trace the rise of hyphy, the Bay Area sound that went national in the mid-2000s.

E-40, the Vallejo rapper and label owner with a four-decade career, accounts for the biggest holdings. Four songs come from his platinum 2006 album My Ghetto Report Card, which hit No. 3 on the Billboard 200: "Yay Area," "Go Hard or Go Home," "Gouda" and "Block Boi." Later work includes "One Night Stand," "Earl" with Ice-T, "Over the Stove," and "Knockin' at the Light."

Federation formed in Fairfield, California in 2002 and helped make hyphy a national sound. Their single "Hyphy," with E-40, charted at No. 88 and gave the movement its name. "Go Dumb" followed in 2004 and peaked at No. 95. More than twenty other Federation songs are here, including "Get Naked You Beezy," "Donkey" and "18 Dummy."

G-Eazy has the newest song, "Now, Next, Later" with E-40, from his 2021 album These Things Happen Too.

The rest widens the map: Snoop Dogg with "Staxxx in My Jeans," DJ Shadow with "Turf Dancing," Travis Porter with "College Girl," Shawty Putt with "Dat Baby," Paul Wall with "Pop One of These," and YFN Lucci with "Favorite Drug."

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Earnings Note. The 1H-2023 spike is from a one-time Amazon program license on "Yay Area" (approximately $6,300). Any similar payments in the future will be payable to the buyer.