Bieber Admits Theft Prank, Premieres New Music Video

Justin Bieber just stepped up his Nicki Minaj, which dropped, as promised, at noon and featured the same handheld footage @gexwy teased as Bieber's private home movies.

Justin later confirmed suspicions that he was in on the whole thing moments before dropping the clip, which he co-directed with Never Say Never helmer Jon Chu, tweeting: "Since i was 14 i have had a lot of things said about me, from dying, to taking hormones, to dying again, to stuff about my family...

"To saying i had a baby with a woman i never even met. nude pics, drugs, my family, my character...but today...today i get to be in on it...," he wrote, turning the tables on his high-profile haters."

He then tweeted a link to the video, adding: "so to all of you... enjoy. let's go for the 10 million mark! Me, @NickiMinaj - this is #BEAUTYandaBEAT."

The video itself keeps the joke going with this message at the beginning: "In October of 2012 three hours of personal footage was stolen from musician Justin Bieber. The following footage was illegally uploaded by an anonymous blogger."

That footage includes vintage video of Bieber performing and some more current insider clips of him playing Ping-Pong, chatting on the phone with Nicki and chilling with his crew.

The music video is shot to look like Bieber is holding a handheld camera the whole time. The grainy, shaky footage takes place at an epic pool party that features lots of synchronized swimmers and beautiful ladies, including the one-and-only Minaj.

As he makes his way through the bash, Bieber shows off his smooth dance moves, goes for a swim and dirty-dancing with Nicki - who looks a bit like a fantastical ballerina spitting rhymes.

As the video nears its conclusion, it all gets a little meta as fans are treated to some behind-the-scenes footage of Bieber co-directing the video, a wink to the fact that he was in on the hoax the entire time.

It ends rather triumphantly as JB, soaking wet from his trip down a water slide, stands in front of the camera cheering and fist-bumping extras.

And then, like most home videos, it just cuts off.

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