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Fans have worked out eye-watering amount Diddy has paid Sting after admitting he pays him $5,000 a day

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Published 09:52 7 Apr 2023 GMT+1

Fans have worked out eye-watering amount Diddy has paid Sting after admitting he pays him $5,000 a day

It's a jaw-dropping amount of money

Rhiannon Ingle

Rhiannon Ingle

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Topics: Celebrity, Money, Music, Rap

Rhiannon Ingle
Rhiannon Ingle

Rhiannon Ingle is a Journalist at LADbible Group. She graduated from the University of Manchester in 2021 in English Literature. Alongside her studies, she was the Lifestyle Editor of The Mancunian, the largest student newspaper in the United Kingdom. Her favourite topics to write about include sex and relationships, bizarre lifestyle trends and all things travel.

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People think they've managed to work out the eye-watering amount Diddy has paid Sting after admitting he pays him $5,000 a day.

The hip-hop star controversially sampled The Police's hit single from 1983, 'Every Breath You Take' in one of his most popular tracks titled ''I'll Be Missing You' which was first released a whole 14 years later in 1997.

However, it seems that that Diddy's decision landed him in some pretty high water after revealing that he has to pay a hefty amount of royalties to the singer every day.

The rapper revealed the news to Twitter earlier this week (5 April), commenting on a clip posted from Sting's interview with The Breakfast Club.

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Sting was asked by the radio host, Charlamagne the God: "Is it true that Diddy has to pay you USD $2,000 (AUD $2,986) because he didn't ask permission to sample 'Every Breath You Take'."

P Diddy admitted to paying Sting '5k a day' for the sample.
Twitter/@Diddy

"Yep," Sting revealed, "for the rest of his life."

The musician went on to say that Diddy cheekily asked for permission to sample his song 'after the fact' before Sting confirmed that there's no bad blood between the two music icons.

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"We're very good friends now," he added.

Diddy then went on to correct the actual figure that he sends Sting every single day.

He tweeted: "Nope. 5K a day. Love to my brother @OfficialSting!"

Fans have since got their calculators out to quantify the precise amount that Diddy has owed to Sting after all this time.

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One Twitter user estimated that the 'Coming Home' rapper paid out a huge fortune to the rock and roller.

"Roughly 47.5 million he paid that man."
YouTube/The Police

"Roughly 47.5 million he paid that man," they posted.

A second went a step further and broke the payments down into a yearly rate, commenting: "That song ain’t worth no 1.8 million a year."

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"1.8 mil a year. CRAZY," pointed out a third while a fourth called the whole situation 'insane' before writing: "That song better be making 3x that a year."

A final Twitter user added: "I need to know the return on investment on that song, because I don't think it has the profit that warrants losing over a million a year."

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