Diplo is at a studio in Burbank, California, searching for inspiration, raising a two-word prayer to the heavens. "Justin Bieber, Justin Bieber," the 33-year-old DJ and producer chants, rubbing his neck thoughtfully. In 24 hours, he's set to begin a four-day studio session with the Canadian teen-pop phenomenon, bouncing song ideas off him and working with him on new music. Diplo searches his laptop for sounds he can flip into the building blocks of a hit: distorted snares, booming kicks, electronic burps and bzzaps. "This is a big record," Diplo says. "It could be generational, you know?"

They aren't sure what to expect from Bieber. "We met him when we were working with Usher," Rechtshaid says. "He came with this diamond-encrusted Rubik's Cube someone had given him, just playing with it."

Rechtshaid has several demos on his computer in various states of completion. One features a bouncy piano melody and a sweet, innocuous R&B refrain. "It's kind of wack, but we could work with that," Diplo says. He plays a dirty synthesizer sound on his laptop, crashing the demo's milquetoast vibe with rude bursts of noise. "Ariel's more anxious than me to do whatever it takes to make the Bieber record," Diplo says later. "I just want to do it if it's something that's really interesting. Pretty much every producer nowadays is kind of cookie-cutter. If you get an Alex da Kid track – I love his tracks, but it's gonna sound a certain way. A David Guetta track. A Sandy Vee track. They're gonna sound a certain way." (Kid, Guetta and Vee are blue-chip songsmiths behind hits by Rihanna, the Black Eyed Peas and Katy Perry.) "I'm always making things up and don't know what I'm doing half the time. So when people come to me, they don't know what they want to sound like – they just want to sound like something from the future."

Diplo arranges the synth noise into a jabbering riff in the same key as the demo. "That's hot," Rechtshaid says. "Give me the stem, and I'll work on it."

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I expect nothing less from the Prince of Pop.

I'm getting BTW teas the way everyone's hyping this album up.

THEY DID NOT JUST PUT A PIC OF JAMES DEAN NEXT TI BEIBERS! (SA_U*DHYGTASD

They better not get me too excited. I don't wanna be let down.
But it's Diplo, and Diplo always brings it.

Sis no you didn't

Diplo gives himself too much credit tbqh.

Let's see.

Where's the lie?

...Oh, why Diplo? Hope it's good.

Swaggie.

This.

.

The way they're hyping this record... he better deliver.

They did.

And there was another photo from a shoot he just did where he's surrounded by old records and Elvis's name is front and center pointing right at Bieber.

Not here for this.

WHAT?!?!

This album is going to be full of swagie.