Diddy Has Paid Sting $2,000 Per Day for Failing to Clear Sample; Payments End in 2053

[Ol’Otis]

@KENNY DA COOKER make it make sense

Find Out Who Makes $2,000 A Day Off Of Diddy’s “I’ll Be Missing You

If only Sean "Diddy" Combs (then Puff Daddy) simply asked Sting for permission to use “Every Breath You Take” before the fact, then Andy Summers, Stewart Copeland and Diddy himself would be allotted their fair share of "I'll Be Missing You" copious royalties.

How much royalties you ask?

According to Celebrity Net Worth, Sting (and Sting alone), fattens his pockets with a cool $2,000 a day. In fact, every penny of royalties that is generated by both “Every Breath You Take” and “I’ll Be Missing You” ($730,000 a year) will continue to trickle into the bank account of Mr. Gordon Matthew Thomas Sumner, reportedly, until 2053.

A little background history on the ordeal: Diddy "forgot" to ask for permission for "Every Breath You Take," which subsequently allowed Sting to take legal action to receive 100 percent of the royalties generated by “I’ll Be Missing You." Had Diddy gotten the okay to sample the song, Sting would have probably gotten only around twenty-five percent of the royalties.

 

[Makavalli]

Did he sue before or after He performed the shyt with him on the VMA’s ??? Cacs bout they money fukk yo dead homie

 

[General Mills]

 

[bigdaddy88]

hear that producers clear your samples.... they got this nikka on child support

 

[Ol’Otis]

they got this nikka on child support

 

[WaveCapsByOscorp™]

Every coin you make, every coin Sting takes...

 

[newworldafro]

 

[Hawaiian Punch]

Sting is a beast when it comes to his chips.

https://www.radio.com/blogs/michael-cerio/juice-wrld-helped-put-stings-grandkids-through-college

it's Juice WRLD that has done the most with the sample, and Sting is thankful for the royalties.

He told Billboard that the money from the song will, "put my grandkids through college" saying that the song is a "beautiful interpretation that is faithful to the original song’s form."

 

[MikelArteta]

Damn that must sting

 

[feelosofer]

I read in an article years back Sting makes about $2.63 cents a second off royalties.

 

[Doobie Doo]

That song came out in 97. And nikkas like Jucie World still have sampling issues.

 

[10bandz]

the sampling laws are racist...... cacs got rich making covers of black music but when hip hop came all of a sudden you can't repurpose a song or sample a 3-5 second loop without giving up all your royalties. I think Russell Simmons said he was gonna take the issue to the supreme court back in the day but probably didn't want the smoke

hear that producers clear your samples.... they got this nikka on child support

the label is supposed to clear the samples which makes it funny that it's always the artists who get sued for it

 

[BlackBall]

https://nypost.com/2019/07/30/sting-buys-66m-pad-in-record-breaking-central-park-building/

 

[Manolo]

Damn, and Sting raped Juice WRLD's royalties for Lucid Dreams.

 

[Piffiztheanswer]

Sting got Diddy in a figure four leg lock