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"I'll Be Missing You" is a tribute song by American rapper Puff Daddy and singer Faith Evans, featuring the R&B group 112. It honors Christopher "The Notorious B.I.G." Wallace , a fellow artist on Bad Boy Records and Evans's husband, who was tragically murdered on March 9, 1997 .
The melody for "I'll Be Missing You" is sampled from the Police's 1983 hit "Every Breath You Take". This successful album led to Puff Daddy to be named as one of Forbes ' 40th highest-paid entertainers, along with southern hip hop rapper Master P and Oprah Winfrey. The music video for "Been Around the World" features cameo appearances by ...
Diddy says he’s paying Sting $5,000 per day for sampling the Police frontman’s 1983 blockbuster hit “Every Breath You Take” on his own 1997 song “I’ll Be Missing You.” Diddy tweeted ...
Despite the allegations against Sean "Diddy" Combs, “Every Breath You Take” remains untainted — at least for the man who wrote it.. In a new interview with the Los Angeles Times published on ...
After Biggie's murder on March 9, 1997, Combs helped Evans produce her tribute song named "I'll Be Missing You", based on the melody of The Police's 1983 single "Every Breath You Take". The song, which featured Combs, Evans, and the all-male group 112 , became a worldwide number-one success and debuted at number one on the US Billboard Hot 100 ...
That’s exactly what we have today (April 6) thanks to a tweet from Diddy, in which he claims he pays Sting $5,000 per day for the rest of his life for having utilized a sample of the Police‘s ...
"Every Breath You Take" is a song by the English rock band the Police from their album Synchronicity (1983). Written by Sting , the single was the biggest US and Canadian hit of 1983, topping the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart for eight weeks (the band's only No. 1 hit on that chart), and the Canadian RPM chart for four weeks.
In 1997, Puff Daddy (pictured in 2007) recorded a tribute song to his recently deceased friend, The Notorious B.I.G., called "I'll Be Missing You". Sampling The Police's 1983 hit "Every Breath You Take", the track features vocals from Biggie's widow, singer Faith Evans, and R&B group 112. The song spent 12 weeks in the UK top 10, with six of ...