Diddy is highly renowned for being a successful music executive, a talented producer, and a multibillionaire businessman. The “Gotta Go On” performer, nevertheless, appears to have made a poor business choice in the 1990s when he copied a Sting song without the singer’s consent.
Diddy notably sampled a song called “Every Breath You Take,” which was written by Sting and published by his band, The Police, in 1983, in his 1997 smash “I’ll Be Missing You” with Faith Evans, a tribute to the late The Notorious B.I.G. It has long been assumed that Diddy is still paying for the unauthorized sample, especially in light of the recent rediscovery of a 2018 interview with Sting from The Breakfast Club.
Sting disclosed how much Diddy reportedly paid him in the video that was just discovered. The 71-year-old singer was questioned at the time by cohost Charlamagne tha God about if it was true that he receives $2,000 per day in payment for his unlawfully sampled 1983 tune. Diddy, according to Sting, “Sure. throughout his entire lifetime.” He added that Diddy did request permission to utilize the song, although posthumously. Sting’s representatives were contacted by POPSUGAR for comment, but they did not respond right away.
On April 5, after a tweet including a tape of Sting’s interview began to go viral, Diddy quoted it and stated that he paid Sting “5K a day,” adding, “Love to my brother @OfficialSting! “.
