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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
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Mia O'Hare

Diddy admits he still pays Sting an eye-watering sum each day for sampling hit song

Rapper Diddy has revealed he still pays Sting $5,000 a day for sampling The Police's song Every Breath You Take without permission back in 1997.

Diddy used a sample of the 1983 Grammy award-winning song on his tribute to The Notorious B.I.G. with Faith Evans, I'll Be Missing You.

His song spent 11 weeks at the top of the Billboard Hot 100 but he used the sample without permission from Sting, 71, who wrote the original song.

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