Are Justin Bieber and Kanye West working together? For a while Bieber's promised that his new LP 'Believe' is going to be a complete step up from the baby-faced work of his previous output, pointing to a host of potential collaborators as helping him to push himself onto new heights. One of the collaborators has now been seemingly confirmed as rap star Kanye West after bodyguard Kenny Hamilton reported that the pair had been working together.
Writing on social networking site Twitter, Hamilton revealed that Bieber was finishing off the album - slated for a summer release - and wrote "Putting the finishing touches on the album and it's gonna be special!" as well as posting a link to a picture of Bieber and West together.
Indeed Bieber now has plenty of life experience to draw upon for his new album, not least last year's legal issue with 20 year-old single mother Mariah Yeater. Arguing that Bieber was her kid's real father after a supposed back stage tryst, Yeater backed down after an aggressive response from the pop star's team of lawyers; Bieber has since gone on to admit that he's written a song on the new album specifically about the incident, though he has not yet been drawn on which one. In a few months time, however, we'll be able to hear for ourselves.