{"id":2463323,"date":"2026-06-17T06:38:55","date_gmt":"2026-06-17T06:38:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2463323"},"modified":"2026-06-17T06:38:55","modified_gmt":"2026-06-17T06:38:55","slug":"27-years-later-still-cashing-beyonce-bills-royalties-songwriting-pays-forever-kandiburruss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/27-years-later-still-cashing-beyonce-bills-royalties-songwriting-pays-forever-kandiburruss\/","title":{"rendered":"27 years later, still cashing Beyonc\u00e9 &#8220;Bills&#8221; royalties. Songwriting pays forever.#KandiBurruss"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\"  width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/b_PnQS2O26A?autoplay=1&#038;modestbranding=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>The &#8220;Real Housewives of Atlanta&#8221; star and Grammy-winning songwriter just proved that timeless hits pay off forever. Kandi revealed she still collects performance royalties whenever Beyonc\u00e9 performs &#8220;Bills, Bills, Bills&#8221; \u2014 a track she co-wrote 27 years ago for Destiny&#8217;s Child . The 1999 smash hit, which she wrote alongside Kevin &#8220;She&#8217;kspere&#8221; Briggs and the group members, continues to be a lucrative stream of passive income . Kandi, who was the first African-American woman to win ASCAP&#8217;s Songwriter of the Year award, has built an empire on classics like this, plus &#8220;No Scrubs&#8221; for TLC . Her story is the ultimate reminder that great songwriting is a gift that keeps on giving.<\/p>\n<p>Hashtags:<br \/>\n#KandiBurruss #BillsBillsBills #Beyonce #DestinysChild #SongwritingRoyalties #PassiveIncome #RHOA #RealHousewives #MusicIndustry #Songwriter #RoyaltyCheck #Legendary #MusicBusiness #Xscape<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=b_PnQS2O26A\">Video Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The &#8220;Real Housewives of Atlanta&#8221; star and Grammy-winning songwriter just proved that timeless hits pay off forever. Kandi revealed she still collects performance royalties whenever Beyonc\u00e9 performs &#8220;Bills, Bills, Bills&#8221; \u2014 a track she co-wrote 27 years ago for Destiny&#8217;s Child . The 1999 smash hit, which she wrote alongside Kevin &#8220;She&#8217;kspere&#8221; Briggs and the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2463324,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25180],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2463323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-videos"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/1781678333_maxresdefault.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2463323","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2463323"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2463323\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2463325,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2463323\/revisions\/2463325"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2463324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2463323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2463323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2463323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}