Why P Diddy Pays A Shocking Amount Of Money To Sting Each Day

P Diddy is no stranger to the headlines right now but Fitzy found out that P Diddy has to pay Sting $2,000 each day, find out why!

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is the Fitting and Whip with Kate Richie podcast.

Speaker 2 (00:03):
Ash has been keeping us updated on the p Diddy
trial that's going on at the moment. I didn't know
this story though, Whip Putt. But look, one of the
greatest bands of all time, without doubt, is the Police
and Sting. I've been lucky, fortunate enough to see the
Police live every breath you take. What a song?

Speaker 3 (00:24):
Very popular funeral song. It's extraordinary, isn't.

Speaker 2 (00:27):
It was sampled this song by did He? That's right,
of course, I'll be missing you.

Speaker 3 (00:33):
This was huge, This was massive.

Speaker 2 (00:34):
I didn't know this, but did He didn't ask to
use Sting's sample from the Police.

Speaker 3 (00:42):
Well, he just went for it.

Speaker 2 (00:43):
He just went for it.

Speaker 3 (00:45):
Which it's like that. How do you just release your
version of someone else's song and hope for the best.

Speaker 2 (00:55):
So obviously Sting that there were rumors going around that
this is obviously you can't do that. Sting was interviewed
on a radio station over in the States about it,
and there was a rumor going around that they met
with each other, and Sting said to did he you
owe me royalties for it? I haven't listened to.

Speaker 1 (01:17):
This, did the truth? Did He have to pay you
two grand a d because he didn't have permission to
sample every refutee. Yeah, wow for the rest of his life.

Speaker 2 (01:25):
Wow.

Speaker 1 (01:26):
No, no, I.

Speaker 2 (01:27):
Read that before.

Speaker 1 (01:28):
It's not true, is it? Were you upset?

Speaker 2 (01:32):
No, not at all.

Speaker 1 (01:32):
I was happy, very happy, said it was a dade
beautiful version of.

Speaker 2 (01:39):
That sort two thousand dollars a day. Well, he's not
getting it now, is he.

Speaker 3 (01:45):
I don't know. I don't know how the fund is
set up. Do you know'd be like me getting a
picture of the Mona Lisa and selling it because I
put a hat on it. What do you think of
this bit of art I put a hat on it?

Speaker 2 (01:57):
Did he did come out in twenty twenty three and
say it's we're all joking as if I owe him
that kind of money every day. Me and Sting have
been friends for a very long time and he's never
charged me. Well the police have, I dare Oh very
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