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AMERICAN rapper P Diddy isn’t really keeping Sting’s bills paid. After the rapper said he paid the former Police frontman US$5 000 in royalties per day for the sample of “Every Breath You Take” on 1997’s “I’ll Be Missing You,” Diddy turned around and insisted it was all just a joke.
“I want y’all to understand I was joking!” Diddy wrote on Twitter Friday, April 7.
“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.”
However, the rapper only asked Sting’s permission for the sample after the song was released.
Diddy and Sting have both addressed the situation previously, and in a 2018 interview with The Breakfast Club Sting said he receives US$2 000 a day from Diddy.
When a clip of the interview resurfaced on Twitter this week and Diddy responded by writing, “Nope. 5k a day. Love to my brother @OfficialSting!”
There are, of course, no hard feelings between the two musicians. In the 2018 interview, Sting noted, “We’re very good friends now”. – Rollingstone.com.
Online Reporter