Sting previously told Rolling Stone that he put his kids through college simply from the proceeds of Sean Comb's sample on "I'll Be Missing You"

Sting isn't letting Sean "Diddy" Combs' legal battles affect his opinion on The Police's song, "Every Breath You Take." The 73-year-old musician (real name Gordon Matthew Thomas Sumner) told the Los Angeles Times in an interview published on Monday,

Despite the allegations against Diddy, "Every Breath You Take" remains untainted. "It's still my song," Sting said of the Police track, which Diddy famously sampled in his 1997 song 'I'll Be Missing You.

While Sean "Diddy" Combs awaits trial, Sting shared his thoughts on the rapper's impact on hit song "Every Breath You Take."

Sting doesn’t feel that the disturbing allegations of sexual misconduct facing Sean “Diddy” Combs “taint” the English rocker’s hit, “Every Breath You Take.” Written by Sting, 73, for his former band The Police, the 1983 track was famously sampled by Diddy, 55, in his 1997 song “I’ll Be Missing You” with Faith Evans.

Sting says the allegations against Sean 'Diddy' Combs do not "taint" 'Every Breath You Take'. The Police's 1983 chart-topper was sampled by the rapper – who was arrested in September over charges of sex trafficking,

Sting shared that Sean "Diddy" Combs recent legal troubles don't "taint" his hit "Every Breath You Take," which the rapper sampled in 1997's "I'll Be Missing You."