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.”

Via Boombox

A few days ago, Amazon UK posted up the official tracklist for Lil Wayne‘s Tha Carter IV album that will be released in stores on August 29th. I didn’t post this up then, because I wanted to wait for someone from YMCMB to confirm the tracklist as we have had so many fake tracklists floating around the web these past couple of months. Anyways, the Vice President Of YMCMB Promotion, Mel Smith, confirmed the tracklist to one of our forum members last night on Twitter. You can view the C4 tracklist below, which will consist of 15 tracks!

1. Intro
2. Blunt Blowin’
3. MegaMan
4. 6 Foot, 7 Foot (Feat Cory Gunz)
5. Nightmares Of The Bottom
6. She Will (Feat Drake)
7. How To Hate (Feat T-Pain)
8. Interlude (Feat Tech N9ne)
9. John (Feat Rick Ross)
10. Abortion
11. So Special (Feat John Legend)
12. How To Love
13. President Carter
14. Its Good (Feat Drake & Jadakiss)
15. Outro (Feat Bun B, Nas, Shyne & Busta Rhymes)

We recently told you Wayniacs that Lil Wayne has picked up 3 nominations for MTV’s Video Music Awards, and now MTV has just confirmed that Weezy will be performing at the show as well! Right now, we don’t know what songs Tunechi will be performing at the show, but maybe he will perform a new track off his Tha Carter IV album because the album is set to drop at midnight after the VMAs go off. The 28th annual MTV Video Music Awards will air live on Sunday, August 28th at 9PM EST from the Nokia Theater in Los Angeles.

“Being a nominee and performer on the VMAs once again is an honor because everyone doesn’t get that opportunity,” Wayne said in a statement. The event coincides with the August 29 release of his upcoming album. “Looking forward to performing on the show, and having Tha Carter IV drop the same week!”

After the jump, you can check out a few photos from a recent Lil Wayne photo shoot that could possibly be used for Wayne‘s Tha Carter IV album booklet.

After rumors this month of Lil Wayne‘s Tha Carter IV album being pushed back from May 16th to June, it looks like they are true after all. Mack Maine has confirmed to XXL the new date for the album will be now June 21st.

Young Money president, Mack Maine, informed XXL that Weezy’s follow up to 2008’s multi-platinum selling Carter III LP will be hitting shelves on June 21. We also confirmed that the graduation photo of a pre-teenage Wayne, sporting his signature facial tattoos that leaked online earlier this week, as well, is the official cover art to the disc.

Lil Wayne has been confirmed as one of the main performers at the 2011 Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival that will take place in Manchester, Tennessee from June 9 – 12, 2011. Tickets go on sale February 19 at noon EST, and you can purchase tickets from the Bonnaroo website here! Don’t forget, Tune is also performing at the 2011 Bamboozle Music Festival from April 29 to May 1, 2011!

After the jump, you can see two flyers for “NBA All-Star Weekend Takeover 2011“, which takes place on February 18 at 9PM to 4AM at The Shrine Auditorium & Expo Center in Los Angeles, California. Weezy will be hosting the event, and partying and performing with over 5,000 people.

Lil Wayne has been confirmed as one of the main performers for the 2011 Bamboozle Music Festival, which will take place at the New Meadowlands Sports Complex from April 29 to May 1, 2011. Tickets go on sale tomorrow (January 4), and you can purchase tickets from the Bamboozle website here!

After the jump, you can watch a video of Producer Bangladesh making Weezy‘s “6 Foot, 7 Foot” beat. Also, Tune will be shooting a visual for the “A Milli on Steroids” C4 single this week!

While speculation about a Hot Boys reunion continues to rise with Juvenile saying last that he is unsure of the reunion happening, Juvie recently spoke with SOHH to confirm the group are getting back together:

“I like this question, I like this question,” Juvie admitted. “I’ve been talking to Baby, man. I’ve talked to Baby, he’s real behind doing the Hot Boys album thing. He done came at me three times but the whole thing was and I wanna be truthful to everybody, it was me and him talking. Me and Wayne was cool. Me and B.G. was cool, all of us was cool but I really had to talk to Baby. We had to put everything out on the table and settle our differences and that was something we’d never done. And I can honestly say it’s been done now so y’all can definitely be looking forward to that album. It’s coming. It’s confirmed [laughs] I got a check already. I always say that when people ask like, ‘Man, they already paid me on the Hot Boys album,’ so you know, with me, I’m already in. It’s just a matter of everybody else being in. I don’t think it would be right if we left Mannie Fresh out. Don’t you think? He was the producer, he did all the music for Hot Boys, so we gotta have him involved, if he don’t do the whole album [then] he gotta do something on there.”

Finally this has been confirmed, and Birdman announced on his UStream earlier announced that the Hot Boys reunion album will drop next year.

Not sure if I believe that just now, but it’s still something to look forward to! You can view the video of the interview after the jump:

Let’s hope the next news we post about the Hot Boys is a song

The rumor we posted earlier is true! This Friday, a Drake record featuring Lil Wayne, Kanye West and Eminem will hit iTunes and the net. The song is called “Forever” and it will be on the More Than A Game soundtrack (I know a lot people where saying this will be on Carter IV, Thank Me Later or Relapse 2). It was produced by Boi Wonder and according to Mack Maine: “The record was mastered this past weekend and honestly it sounds better than ever”.

We also posted this yesterday:

The Young Money single titled “Girl You Know” is supposedly dropping this week and on the record is Lil Wayne, Drake, Jae Millz, Gudda Gudda and Tyga. Omarion was going to be on the track, but I am not sure if he still is after what has happened. They are shooting their parts for the video tomorrow.

Well, this video shoot has been pushed back to sometime next week, but don’t forget that Drizzy and Weezy are shooting a music video for “I’m Goin’ In” on Thursday. Last night, Birdman announced on UStream that they him, Drake and Lil Wayne will be shooting a music video for “Money To Blow” too.

Oh and be on the lookout for a Wayne and Jay Rock song dropping this or next week

Remember the Lil Wayne verse/bridge that leaked a while back which was supposed to be used on an upcoming Madonna track? Well the collaboration has been confirmed and the record’s official name is “Revolver“. This track will also be the second single from her upcoming greatest hits album titled “Celebration” which will drop in September. There will most likely will be a music video to this song too, so like YN said, how are excited are you?