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“Been Around the World” is a 1997 single from the Puff Daddy album No Way Out, featuring The Notorious B.I.G and Mase. The song sampled David Bowie’s 1983 hit song “Let’s Dance” and Roy Ayers’s “Feelin’ Good”; it also featured a vocal interpolation of Lisa Stansfield’s song “All Around the World”, sung by The Notorious B.I.G. in the chorus. In the album version, the song concludes with a skit featuring an interview with “The Mad Producer”. The song was released as a single on August 12, 1997; it was the fourth single released from the album. Like the previous three singles, which all reached No. 1 or No. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, “Been Around the World” hit No. 2 on the chart, in the first two weeks of 1998; it was kept out of the No. 1 spot by... Read on...