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According to Us Weekly, Justin Bieber, 20, was at a beach bar on the Parrot Cay island in Turks and Caicos over New Year’s when he ran into an “old guy throwing back drinks” who said to him, “Who the fuck are you?” Turns out that guy was none other than Rolling Stones rock icon Keith Richards.

Bieber, who is IN the music industry and being an idiot, responded with, “I don’t know, who the fuck are you?”

Apparently satisfied with that answer, the older gent smiled and said, “‘You’re a man. I respect that,’ then walked away,” the source tells Us. It wasn’t until a few minutes later, when “another old guy and came over and told Justin, ‘Keith Richards wants to have a drink with you,'” that the 71-year-old rock legend’s identity was revealed. Bieber, rightly awestruck, exclaimed, “Oh, shit! That was Keith Richards?” and then joined the Brit at a table. “Justin tried to bro down with him,” a witness says, adding that a seemingly unimpressed Richards told the star, “Let’s get one thing straight. You’re a wannabe.”

And that’s why Keith Richards will be a rock and roll god for all eternity and Justin Bieber will just be that dickless kid who pees in mop buckets, sucks at sports and almost got beat up by Legolas.