Ludacris has come to the rescue to defend Justin Bieber‘s rapping skills.

Earlier in the week, DJ Premier revealed that the Biebs was not allowed to participate in this year’s BET Hip Hop Awards rap cypher because he wanted Ludacris to write his verse.

Well, Luda is stating otherwise and sent out the following tweet to set the record straight.

DJ Premier has also all of a sudden gotten his facts together:

We thought something wasn’t right about this … the Biebs has never had any problems with kicking a few bars of his own in the past!

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