has confessed he has to pay Sting $5,000 (£4,000) a day for sampling the rockstar’s song without permission in 1997.
In what would turn out to be a pretty costly mistake, the sampled ’s hit 1983 track Every Breath You Take in his 1997 song I’ll Be Missing You.
In a resurfaced clip from a 2018 interview with The Breakfast Club, the former Police frontman admitted that the I Need A Girl rapper pays him $2,000 per day in royalties.
In the video, which is again circulating on Twitter, the host asked Sting, ‘Is it true that Diddy has to pay you $2k a day because he didn’t have permission to sample Every Breath You Take?’, to which Sting simply responded, ‘Yeah, for the rest of his life’.
‘We’re very good friends now,’ the added, much to the amusement of the interviewers.
But on seeing the video yesterday, Diddy thought he’d clear a few things up, as he wrote: ‘Nope. 5K a day. Love to my brother@OfficialSting!’
That’s $1.8million a year (£1.4million) – ouch.
In 2022, Forbes estimated Diddy’s net worth at $1billion (£804million).
The mogul makes his riches through an array of lucrative hustles, including from music streaming and his record label Bad Boy Entertainment, his Cîroc partnership, and from being a shareholder in media network Revolt.
According to Celebritynetworth Sting’s estimated net worth is said to be around $550million (£442million).
I’ll Be Missing You was a., who died at the age of 24 in 1997.
The song spent 11 weeks on the top of the Billboard charts, and also featured Biggie’s wife Faith Evans and R&B group 112.
Diddy took to social media on March 9 to mark the 26th anniversary of his friend’s death.
‘There will NEVER be another. The GREATEST RAPPER OF ALL TIME,’ he wrote.
‘Today we celebrate and honor you king. Love and miss you!!’
Diddy – real name Sean Combs – signed Biggie to his record label, Bad Boy Records, upon its launch in 1993.
Biggie Smalls was fatally shot in his SUV and his killer was never caught.
Fellow hip hop legend Tupac died just six months prior to Biggie’s death in September 1996 at the age of 25, also in a drive by shooting in Las Vegas.
