"I'll Be Missing You" is a tribute song by American rapper Puff Daddy and singer Faith Evans, featuring the R&B group 112.
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."
"[4] Sting later reconciled with Bad Boy, and performed the song alongside Puff Daddy and Evans in September 1997 at the MTV Video Music Awards.
With lyrics like 'Know you're in heaven, smiling down/Watching us while we pray for you', 'I'll Be Missing You' gives the lie to those who claim hip-hoppers are above self-serving sentimentality.
[9] Also James Hyman from Record Mirror gave the song four out of five, noting that "once again, blatant plundering from an Eighties groove forms the basis for an instant pop-rap crossover.
"[10] David Fricke from Rolling Stone wrote, "In 'I'll Be Missing You', he didn't merely crib from Sting; he took a song about stalking and transformed it into a radiant hymn of brotherly love and a community's loss.
[12] Ian Hyland from Sunday Mirror gave it nine out of ten, commenting, "Not the greatest rap I've ever heard but this tribute to murdered rapper Notorious B.I.G.
Portions of the video were filmed in the Helmut Jahn designed moving walkway tunnel that connects Concourses B and C in Terminal 1 at the O'Hare International Airport.