Diddy showed Sting some love after revealing he was now paying the British rock stars $5,000 for sampling The Police on his 1997 Biggie tribute “I’m Gonna Miss You.”
On Wednesday (April 5), the Bad Boy mogul explained a 2018 interview in which Sting said Diddy paid him $2,000 a day to use his band’s 1983 song “Every Breath You Take.”
According to Diddy, the fee was increased by an additional $3,000, but he didn’t seem to hold grudges. “Nope. 5K a day,” Diddy tweeted. “Love to my brother @OfficialSting.”
Sting confirmed the rumors after Charlamagne Tha God pushed him for clarification on the four-figure daily salary in a 2018 interview with The Breakfast Club.
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Diddy celebrated his friend and artist The Notorious B.I.G. Two months after the legendary rapper’s death on March 9, 1997, the song “I’m Gonna Miss You,” built around the 1983 sample “Every Breath You Take” by The Police.
The tribute anthem spent 11 weeks at the top of the Billboard Hot 100 and won Best Rap Performance by a Duo or Group at the 40th Annual Grammy Awards. “I Will Miss You” was the second single from Diddy’s 1998 debut album No Way Out.
If Diddy sends $5,000 in payments every 24 hours, Sting gets back about $1.8 million a year.
And this isn’t Sting’s only lucrative payday in recent years when it comes to sampling, as he reportedly took 85% of the royalties on Juice WRLD’s Lucid Dreams, which the producer says interpolates Shape of My Heart.
Sting downplayed reports of a lawsuit against Joss and his A-League label, calling the late rapper’s tween a favorite when it came to “Shape of My Heart” following his death in 2019.
