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Puff Daddy & Faith Evans
single · Jun 1997

I'll Be Missing You

Puff Daddy & Faith Evans

Faith Evans, wife of Notorious B.I.G., teams with Puff Daddy and R&B group 112 on a tribute song to her late husband "I'll Be Missing You". The single hits No. 1 U.S. and U.K. and is built on a sample of The Police's "Every Breath You Take". The song becomes the longest running No. 1 hip hop song to date, with 11 weeks at No. 1.