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Justin Bieber is 'not a racist', he's 'a baby': 50 Cent and Russell Brand defend troubled teen

Justin Bieber is 'not a racist', he's 'a baby': 50 Cent and Russell Brand defend troubled teen
Russell Brand

and

50 Cent

have come to the defence of

Justin Bieber

following the release of

two videos of the singer making racist remarks

. British comedian Russell raised the

ongoing controversy

surrounding the 20-year-old while talking on his YouTube channel The Trews.

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Justin Bieber has apologised for his offensive remarks

Reading from a newspaper that had printed Justin's apology, Russell said, "

It was ages ago when he used to have that haircut. You can't do him for stuff he (has) done when he had that haircut…

"Unless we're going to explicitly say the role of celebrities is we're going to make them really, really famous and then we're going to destroy them and rip then up in a public square with fish hooks, which, you know as long as you don't get round to me, I'm not against. "But we might as well own up to it if that is what we're up to, otherwise just let him off.

Of course it's wrong to say the N-word, but he's a child

.”

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Russell Brand has come to Justin Bieber's defence

Justin was forced to issue

two apologies

this week after the emergence of the videos,

the first

of which sees him making a racist joke, and the second showing him altering the lyrics of his track

One Less Lonely Girl

to include racially offensive terms.

The videos appear to date back five years

, during the shooting of Justin’s documentary

Never Say Never

.

50 Cent has also weighed in on the contentious issue

, insisting that the Canadian singer is "

still a baby

" and not a racist. Speaking to the

Sun

, the rapper – real name Curtis Jackson – dismissed the racism claims outright.

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Justin Bieber and 50 Cent at the Floyd Mayweather WBA fight in May 2012

"

I don't think he's racist

," he said. "I don't think he even knows who he is at this point – he's so young. When you see people become huge stars really early, it's tough for them. "You have to grow up with all these expectations.

I think Justin's still a baby and he's lost

."

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