Resurfaced Justin Bieber Videos Reexamined Amid Diddy’s Alleged Sex Crime Claims
Justin Bieber rose to stardom at the age of fifteen, the same age as Usher, his mentor, when the “Confessions” singer was under the legal guardianship of Sean “Diddy” Combs, his mentor.
A 15-year-old Bieber was first introduced to Diddy through the Usher link; the DJ subsequently told Jimmy Kimmel that he and the adolescent met “in a strange way” back in 2009.
Bieber and the hip-hop mogul worked together on a single that was never released that same year. Diddy’s 2023 album The Love Album: Off the Grid has a song called “Moments,” which features the singer of “Baby” later on.
Bieber and Diddy, who is over 25 years older than the “Lonely” singer, collaborated on several films back in the 2000s and 2010s. Not surprise, given that Bieber at the time also considered the Bad Boy boss to be a sort of mentor.
However, scores of earlier videos and conversations with the disgraced hip-hop mogul are making a comeback and taking on new significance now that Diddy is incarcerated on many federal sex crimes counts and is the target of lawsuits from over 100 additional victims, some of whom are minors. In the wake of his spectacular collapse, Diddy’s previous footage with Bieber—whether it be an official sit-down interview or a more relaxed video for fans—is being closely examined.
In November 2009, a then 15-year-old Bieber uploaded a video to his official YouTube channel titled, “JUSTIN BIEBER’s 48 HRS with DIDDY!!” “You ever seen the movie 48 Hrs?” Diddy said directly to the camera in one of several videos with Bieber to go viral in the wake of the allegations against the rapper. “Right now [Justin is] having 48 hours with Diddy, him and his boy. They’re having the times of their lives,” the “I’ll Be Missing You” artist shared. “Like where we hanging out and what we’re doing we can’t really disclose. But it’s definitely a 15-year-old’s dream.”
Diddy went on to compare his weekend with Bieber to when he had “legal guardianship of Usher when he did his first album.” (Usher — who began living with Diddy when he was 13 in the early ’90s — later told Howard Stern that he noticed “very curious things taking place” during Diddy’s “Puffy Flavor Camp” parties. He also told the shock jock “hell no” when asked if he’d ever allow one of his children to attend “Puffy Camp.”)
In the 2009 video with Bieber, Diddy further quipped that he had “custody” of the teen for the weekend, though it wasn’t legal. Still, he noted, “for the next 48 hours, [Justin’s] with me … and we’re gonna go … buck full crazy.” As the video concluded, Diddy called Bieber “a man after my heart” after the “Boyfriend” singer remarked he wanted to “go get some girls.”
Watching it back now, fans were horrified.
“The fact this is out in the open for 14 years and nobody questioned it until now is crazy,” one person commented on the YouTube video.
“48 hours with Diddy sounds like a horror movie,” another person added.
A third fan pointed out just how much Bieber looked up to Diddy at the time — as evident by the video, in which the teen star seems to want to emulate his mentor’s lifestyle as much as possible.
“The way he’s trying to mimic diddy, he saw him as a role model, and look what diddy did…. Im sobbing,” they wrote.
In more video footage from around 2010, a teen Bieber was in the recording studio when Diddy showed up.
@topgrandtour Justin Bieber becomes a member of Diddy’s dirty money crew and teams up in the studio. #hiphop #hiphopculture #rapculture #justinbieber #fyp #foryou ♬ original sound – Topgrandtour
