Controversial racist videos
In June 2014, a video of 15-year-old Justin Bieber telling a racist joke and using the n-word was leaked by a British tabloid. The clip shows Bieber sitting with friends when he begins his joke: “Why are black people afraid of chainsaws?” following by the answer “Run, nigger.”[177] Days later, on June 4, 2014, a second video published by TMZ showed a 14-year-old Bieber sitting in a chair and giggling as he croons his song "One Less Lonely Girl", parodying the song with the main lyric "One less lonely nigger", and that if he were to kill "one less lonely nigger", he'd be "part of the KKK".[178][179] He apologized later that day, saying "facing my mistakes from years ago has been one of the hardest things I've ever dealt with."[180]