Lil Wayne Announced As A Performer For Dance Segment At 2012 GRAMMY Awards

Lil Wayne has been confirmed as a performer with Chris Brown and David Guetta for the dance segment part at the 54th Annual GRAMMY Awards, which will broadcast live from the Staples Center in Los Angeles on February 12th at 8PM EST. If Weezy, Brown and Guetta are all performing together, then I would guess they will be performing either “I Can Only Imagine” or “Look At Me Now“. Hit the jump to read what Grammy show producer Ken Ehrlich said about the performance below!

Grammy show producer Ken Ehrlich had considered putting dancing/electronica music into the ceremony in the past, but could never quite figure out how to incorporate the high-energy club feel in front of a sometimes staid audience.

He thinks he’s figured it out this year. For the first time, the Grammy show will put the spotlight on the genre with a segment featuring Grammy nominees Deadmau5, the Foo Fighters, Chris Brown, David Guetta and Lil Wayne, all performing in a tent space amid 1,000 fans.

“We decided to go all out this year,” Ehrlich said of the performance taking place outside the Staples Center in Los Angeles, where Sunday’s ceremony will be held. “All we’re going to try and do next week is to try and put the home audience in the middle of it. … It is more than just sitting there and watching it.”

“I don’t know that I figured out a way to do it that felt right until now,” Ehrlich said in an interview Monday. “My feeling about dance is it’s such an immersive experience for the participant, that to put it on stage … where the audience is not a part of it … I don’t know, honestly, until we came up with the idea of doing it this way, I don’t know if it ever would have worked.”

Ehrlich calls the performance the “most ambitious number that we’ve ever done outside the Staples Center.” It will feature at least four cameras from audience level as Deadmau5 (pronounced dead mouse) and the Foo Fighters perform his remixed version of the band’s song “Rope,” which netted him one of his Grammy nominations, and as Brown and Lil Wayne perform with Guetta.

Ehrlich said the performance reflects the popularity of dance music over the past few years.

“As much as a recorded medium that it is, and the fact that it’s selling a lot of CDs and downloads, it’s really a live experience,” he said. “It is more than just sitting there and watching it.”

“What I try and do when we’re building this show is to think about the audience first. … What can I do that’s going to keep an audience for 3 1/2 hours watching the Grammy Awards?” he said. “I do try and look for how broad I can make it and still assume that people are going to tune in and stay with it.”

Lil Wayne Celebrates The New Year At Club Dream In Miami (Picz)

Lil Wayne joined Birdman, along with Young Money’s Lil Twist, Jae Millz and Mack Maine to celebrate the New Year at Club Dream in South Beach, Miami. You can watch some footage below of Tunechijamming out to his version of “Rollin’” and Meek Mill’s “I’mma Boss” track, and view some photos from the event after the jump!

2/Jan/2012

Lil Wayne Tattoos

Below, you will find lots of pictures of Lil Wayne’s tattoos. Weezy has tattoos all over his body with many different meanings, so we will try and explain all of them.

All of Weezy’s and Birdman’s tats on their chest and neck.

He has ‘Baby’ and ‘Slim’ on both shoulders and a bird for ‘Birdman’. He also has a ‘Rolls Royce’ symbol on his left bicep.

His 4 tear drops which are for the people who have been killed in his family, ‘Fear God’ and the ‘C’ between his eyes which is for his mother ‘Cita’ and his last name ‘Carter’.

This is just a picture of Weezy getting his ‘Fear God’ tattoo on his eyelids.

Here is his ‘ESPN’ tattoo which is a sports television channel.

He colored the star below his neck in red which also has ‘God’ above it, and the bold numbers on his arm represent his date of birth.

Check out what Weezy’s back looks like.

You can see lots of Weezy’s chest tats on the pic above including ‘MOB’ which stands for ‘Money Over Bitches’ or ‘Member Of Bloods’, and you can see his ‘Cash Money’ tattoo which is the record label he is signed to. You can also see his big ’17′ tattoo which represents the 17th ward of New Orleans (where Wayne grew up) and he has ‘BR’ and ‘JR’ on each side of his navel which is short for his nickname “Birdman Junior”. He has ‘Nae Nae’ on both arms too which is for his daughter.

Lil Wayne tatted Trina on his finger, but he has now added a ring over it – maybe to suggest that he will never get married?

Tune had an ‘I’ on his finger so his fingers spelt ‘Shit’, then he added ‘Trina’ around his finger when they were going out with each other, then he got a ring tattooed around his finger covering up ‘Trina’, maybe to show that he is married to the rap game? And now he has got what looks like a Chinese symbol covering up everything on his third finger.

Here, you can see Wayne getting a tattoo on his index finger.

Another look at Tune’s leg tatts.