Chris Travis, Lil Peep + More - Publisher + Songwriter Royalties

Twelve years after the release of these songs, earnings have barely moved year over year. The last twelve months came in 2% above the three-year average, and the three calendar years before that sat within a few hundred dollars of each other. The driving earners are “Crunch Time,” the 2013 SoundCloud hit from Memphis rapper Chris Travis, and 2014 release“Keep My Coo,” by then 18-year-oldLil Peep. Columbia records rereleased “Keep My Coo” in 2019, two years after Lil Peep’s death, on a career compilation album tied to a documentary about his life.

This asset includes both the writer’s share and the publisher’s share of the compositions. The PRO pays the writer’s share directly to the writer, and the administrator collects the publisher’s share, including the publisher’s portion of performance income. Each time a song is streamed, it earns two royalties: a mechanical royalty and a performance royalty. Over the last twelve months, mechanical royalties made up 51% of income and performance royalties made up 47%. Nearly all of the performance income came from streaming rather than radio or live play.

Both songs are more than a decade old, and their early declines are long behind them. Since 2023, annual income has stayed within a few percent from year to year, and the last twelve months came in slightly ahead of that. If that trend holds, this catalog is a solid contributor to a diverse royalty portfolio.

Fourteen songs from the SoundCloud generation of American underground rap, centered on Memphis and the collectives that came out of it. 

Six of the fourteen are Chris Travis songs. The Orange Mound, Memphis rapper and producer joined SpaceGhostPurrp’s Raider Klan in the early 2010s, left to found his own imprint, Water Boyz Entertainment, and later formed Seshollowaterboyz. After his 2012 debut mixtape Pizza and Codeine he moved at an unusual pace, releasing a dozen-plus projects across 2013 and 2014. “Crunch Time” (2013) came out of that stretch as a standalone single rather than an album cut, and the video did the work a label normally would. “9K Freestyle” (2013), “Bitch I’m Kenshin Travis” (2013), “Fabio” (2014), “No Purpose” (2014) and the “Crunch Time” remix come from the same mixtape run.

"Keep My Coo" is one of Lil Peep’s earliest songs. He first uploaded it to SoundCloud in November 2014, when he just 18-years-old. It’s a raw snapshot of an artist still finding his voice, with early flashes of the charm and recklessness that would come to define his music. The upload was later deleted. On November 15, 2019, the second anniversary of his death, his family and label released the album Everybody’s Everything alongside a documentary of the same name, and Keep My Coo was one of the early SoundCloud songs it put on streaming services. Its video is cut from home footage he shot as a teenager, and the song was released as a standalone single in 2021.

“Peace or Pieces” (2014) is a Xavier Wulf song featuring Black Smurf. Wulf, formerly known as Ethelwulf, is another Memphis Raider Klan alum who left to build Hollow Squad into a label and merchandise operation and released his first full-length, Project X, in 2015. Black Smurf, an East Memphis fixture from the same circle and a frequent $uicideboy$ collaborator, leads “King Smurf” (2014) and “All I Know” (2022).

Earnings Note. The Earnings by Period chart below reflects royalty payments based on two distinct statement sets from different payors. The Last 12 Months include:

BMI Statements: 2Q-2025 through 1Q-2026 (Quarterly)
AdminMp Statements: 3Q-2025 through 2Q-2026 (Quarterly)