Scooter Braun confirmed today that, as noted by Variety last week, he and Kanye West are working together again and he is helping the artist with the rollout of the five albums he’s in the middle of releasing. The pair had announced in April that Braun was no longer in a management relationship with the artist.

“We’re still working together,” Braun said in a Q&A with Variety executive music editor Shirley Halperin at the Midem conference Thursday. He acknowledged differences of opinion, and noted that “Even though he tweeted ‘I can’t have a manager, I don’t have a manager, I can’t be managed’, two hours later he tweeted ‘Scooter Braun is a genius!’ He wanted me to work [just] for him and that didn’t work for me,” but confirmed that the two never stopped talking and are again working closely together — they were often...