Diddy (ex-Puff Daddy). – ©AP
1.8 million euros annually. This is how much ex-cop Sting paid for a sample of his 1983 hit every breath you take. American rapper Diddy (former name Puff Daddy) put it off because he didn’t ask permission to sample.
Paul Demeyer
On Wednesday, American producer/rapper Diddy, 53, put the dots on i. He wrote about his hit song in 1997 I’ll miss you. In it a sample of a police injury is used every breath you take. “I pay 5,000 euros for it every day,” Didi wrote.
Not 2000
In an interview with The Breakfast Club (a breakfast show on American radio station Power 105.1), Sting said already in 2018 that he receives a nice fee from Diddy because only I’ll miss you Request permission to use the sample. “I now charge 2,000 euros a day for this. And that is until the end of my life. This is the deal we made amicably. By the way, we are now good friends.”
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Didi now announces that the amount is indeed higher: €5,000. This means an annual increase for Sting of 1.8 million euros.
I’ll miss you It was Diddy’s second single in 1997. The song was a tribute to Notorious Big, the rapper who was shot dead that year at the age of 24. The murder has not been solved. At that year’s MTV Music Awards, Diddy, Sting, and former Sputnik Big Faith Evans sang the song together.
Paying 5,000 euros a day for a sample is a lot of money. But Diddy also got a lot out of the song. The song was at the top of the Billboard 100 for no less than eleven weeks, and the number also had a record 23 weeks on Ultratop, six of which were at number one.
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