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 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,

The Police star Sting has admitted if he will still listen to one of his biggest hits that Diddy sampled after the rapper's legal troubles emerged earlier this year