The former rapper-turned-media mogul famously sampled the 1983 Sting song for “I’ll Be Missing You,” a 1997 tribute to The Notorious B.I.G., featuring Faith Evans. He failed to ask Sting for permission, however — and it’s costing him.
Sting confirmed as much during a 2018 “Breakfast Club” interview, when co-host Charlamagne tha God asked if “Diddy has to pay you two grand a day” for sampling the song.
“Yeah, for the rest of his life,” Sting answered. “We’re very good friends, though.”
Diddy made a correction on Wednesday.
“Nope,” he wrote on Twitter with a resurfaced clip of “The Breakfast Club” interview. “5K a day. Love to my brother @OfficialSting!”
“Elton John told me, ‘You gotta hear [it], you’re gonna be a millionaire!’” Sting told the outlet. “I said, ‘I am a millionaire!’ He said, ’You’re gonna be a millionaire twice over!’ I put a couple of my kids through college with the proceeds, and me and P. Diddy are good pals still.”
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