Sean "Diddy" Combs recently tweeted that he's been paying Sting $5,000 every day for the past 25 years, leading many to believe that the arrangement came about after Diddy sampled a song by Sting over 25 years ago. However, Diddy shortly followed up with a tweet explaining that he was actually joking.
Diddy sampled one of Sting's songs in his 1997 "I'll Be Missing You." The song was a tribute to Notorious B.I.G., who was killed in a drive-by shooting.
The song remained at the top of the Billboard 100 for 11 weeks. One of Sting's friends actually made him aware of the sampling of his song in Diddy's hit.
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When a 2018 interview with Sting on The Breakfast Club radio show resurfaced with a caption saying that Diddy paid him around $2K a day after sampling his song, Diddy reposted the tweet and wrote, "Nope. 5K a day. Love to my brother @OfficialSting."
He later followed up with a tweet saying, "I want y’all to understand I was joking! It’s called being Facetious! Me and @OfficialSting have been friends for a long time! He never charged me $3K or $5K a day for Missing You. He probably makes more than $5K a day from one of the biggest songs in history. LOVE ❤️ ⚡️✨."
