Bashful Kanye West poses for a snap with Mike Tyson and 50 Cent

KANYE West looks a little sheepish as he stands shoulder-to-shoulder with former boxing champ Mike Tyson.

The rapper looked a little scared as he posed for a snap with the ex-US heavyweight and fellow rap star 50 Cent.

Was he worried Tyson could suddenly lash out?

Today we told how a Q&A session with the former sportsman — who has a record of sexual violence and is a convicted rapist — was axed after a public outcry in Hampshire.

The former champ was jailed for six years in 1992 after raping an 18-year-old Miss Black America beauty pageant contestant.

Wearing a backward baseball cap and a chunky gold necklace, Kanye failed to crack a smile as Tyson put a hand on his shoulder.

Tyson uploaded the snap to his Twitter account after 50 Cent and Kanye came to watch him perform the opening night of his Broadway show, Undisputed Truth.

The one-man-show is described as “a personal look inside the life and mind of one of the most complicated men ever to wear the heavyweight crown".

It runs in New York until August 12.