‘Diddy’ says he pays Sting $5k every single day for sampling his hit song without permission

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Legendary musician Sting sold his music catalog for hundreds of millions of dollars last year—but he’s still raking in almost $2 million a year in royalties from a single song.

That’s according to rapper Sean "Diddy" Combs, who tweeted on Wednesday that he pays Sting $5,000 a day to use a sample from the 1983 hit “Every Breath You Take.”