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I'll Be Missing You is een nummer van de Amerikaanse rapper Puff Daddy, zangeres Faith Evans en r&b-groep 112 uit 1997. Het nummer is een eerbetoon aan de op 9 maart 1997 vermoorde rapper The Notorious B.I.G., de beste vriend van Puff Daddy, en echtgenoot van Faith Evans.

"I'll Be Missing You" bevat een sample van het nummer Every Breath You Take van The Police uit 1983, en werd een wereldwijde hit. Met meer dan acht miljoen verkochte exemplaren werd het nummer een van de best verkochte singles ooit. In veel landen haalde het nummer de eerste positie, ook in de Nederlandse Top 40 en de Vlaamse Ultratop 50.

"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 the Notorious B.I.G., a fellow artist on Bad Boy Records and Evans's husband, who was murdered on March 9, 1997. Released in May 1997 by Bad Boy and Arista Records as the second single from Puff Daddy's debut album, No Way Out (1997), the track incorporates a sample from the Police's 1983 track "Every Breath You Take," with an adapted chorus by Evans. Additionally, it includes elements from the 1929 hymn "I'll Fly Away" by Albert E. Brumley and features a spoken introduction layered over a choral arrangement of Samuel Barber's "Adagio for Strings." Its music video was directed by Hype Williams and filmed on sites in Chicago.

At the 40th Annual Grammy Awards, the song won the Grammy Award for Best Rap Performance by a Duo or Group. The single spent eleven weeks atop the US Billboard Hot 100 and reached number one in 15 other countries; it was the best-performing single of 1997 in Iceland, the Netherlands (Dutch Top 40), and Romania. With shipments of over three million copies in the United States and over one million in both Germany and the United Kingdom, the song has become one of the best-selling singles of all time.