Chris Brown told MTV News that it was awesome getting Bieber on board for “Next 2 You.”Brown became interested in featuring the teen star on his album after the duo worked on the remix to Bieber’s track “Up,” which was featured onNever Say Never – The Remixes.

“Being able to collab with [Bieber] was great,” Brown said. “He’s a young, energetic cat, so being able to work with him, with the fanbase he has, was incredible. I know a lot of little girls are going to love this record.

“I wouldn’t say [he’s] my protégé. He’s doing his thing at a young age, and I was doing mine at a young age, so being able to see him come up is dope.”

Brown explained that the two of them didn’t quite get into the studio together, however.

“I actually stood him up on accident,” Brown recalled. “He was kind of mad … I was all the way on the other side of town handling some business, ‘girl business,’ and I was rushing back, and by that time, he’s like, ‘Man, I’m leaving, bro. I did it — just check it out.’ And I looked at it and listened to it and I was like, ‘Man, this is crazy.’ … He’s a great kid.”

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Justin Bieber does a driveby waving as he leaves the Lowry hotel in Manchester, UK, to head to the MEN Arena for his concert. A crowd of his fans had been waiting patiently to catch a glimpse of their idol so he had his bodyguard open the sliding door on his people carrier as he drove slowly past the fans.

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Aww how nice of him. Some celebs go out of their way to avoid their fans. Justin goes out of his way to make them happy. <3

At seventeen, Justin Bieber lives a life that most people dream about but never achieve. Yet behind his success and present happiness lies a dark secret from his far distant past. That secret is comprised of events that happened before the teen dream was even born, and if the most dramatic and potentially tragic of those events had actually come to pass, then his current phenomenal success would never have happened. In fact, he would never have been born.

According to The National Enquirer, Justin Bieber’s mother once lived an existence that was the diametric opposite of her now perfect life. In fact, Pattie Mallette’s circumstances were so dire and her life so seemingly hopeless that she actually once attempted suicide.

As a child, Mallette was sexually abused on a regular basis between the ages of 5 and 10. She never told anyone about the abuse. Instead she began to numb her pain with alcohol and drugs. At the age of 15, she ran away from home and took up with a group of older men.

“I just lived a life of sin, drugs and alcohol constantly and parties constantly and not going to school and stealing,” she confessed in an interview on Canadian television. “I was pretty much high or drunk from the time I woke up to the time I went to bed.” Finally, unable to bear her sordid existence, she tried to commit suicide by running in front of a car in the middle of busy traffic.

“I was depressed and angry and just snapped one day,” she mused. “I said, ‘I want to die,’ and I wanted to find the quickest way possible.”

Fortunately, the driver was able to swerve to avoid her. And just a year later, she became pregnant with the baby boy who would grow up to become a legend.

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