It seems that Didi is giving up money with every breath she takes.
The rapper and mogul, whose real name is Sean Combs, revealed on Twitter Wednesday that he’s still getting paid big bucks to sample The Police’s 1983 hit “Every Breath You Take” on his 1997 song (He was then sung by Puff Daddy) “I’m gonna miss you.”
Diddy responded in 2018 to a resurfaced clip of The Breakfast Club with Sting (who was lead singer of The Police) where he was asked if Diddy had offered him “$2,000″ to sample the song without Sting’s permission. The rumors of getting paid” per day were true.
“Yeah,” Sting confirmed, “for the rest of my life.”
Diddy reposted the clip and corrected the information, telling her followers that it wasn’t $2,000 — it’s actually $5,000.
Sting also confirmed that Diddy asked him for permission to use the song “After the Fact”.
Mathematically, if Diddy paid $5,000 a day for the last 26 years since the song’s release, he would have already paid the musician a contingency of $47,450,000.
“We’re great friends now,” said Sting, with Diddy also calling him her “brother”.
“I’ll Be Missing You” was released in 1997 as a tribute to The Notorious B.I.G.—who was killed in March of that year—14 years after Sting’s classic hit charted. Sting and Diddy also performed the hit together at the 1997 MTV Video Music Awards (VMAs).
In a 2003 interview with Rolling Stone, Sting joked about the money earned from Diddy’s hits.
He told the outlet at the time, “Those guys just take their shit, put it on a record and deal with the legalities later.” “Elton John said to me, ‘You have to listen [“I’ll Be Missing You”], You are going to be a millionaire!’ I said, ‘I’m a millionaire!’ He said, ‘You’re going to be a millionaire twice!’ I put some of my kids through college with the income, and I and P. Didi is still good friend.
Diddy, who was also known as P. Diddy, has multiple streams of income thanks to his successful music career, his record label Bad Boy Records and a multi-year investment deal with the liquor company, Ciroc.
His net worth was estimated at $900 million as of Friday morning.
