Wow, Cash Money CEO’s Birdman and Slim buy Lil Wayne the new 2012 Bentley and Mack Maine a Rolls Royce Ghost! You can watch some footage of Baby and Slim showing Weezy and Mack their new cars that are waiting in the studio parking lot in the video above, courtesy of Derick G. The first thing Tunechi does after thanking his bosses is drive his Bentley to the other end of the car park to go skateboarding.

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

Above, you can watch some behind the scenes footage from on set of Lil Wayne‘s “Mirror” video shoot featuring Bruno Mars. If you missed the official music video, then you can watch it here!

Hit the jump to view some photos from the video shoot, courtesy of Derick G.

“Unfortunately I was skating and I tried to do an ollie down one of my banks and I tailed out at the end of it,” Weezy said in a clip from DJ Scoob Doo’s upcoming “The Nino Brown Story” DVD that was given exclusively to MTV News.

“I kinda didn’t separate it — hopefully I didn’t separate my shoulder, but if it was separated I wouldn’t be able to move it,” he said, showing off his new Trukfit tee for the camera. “I probably strained a muscle. I don’t know the name of the muscle, my therapist told me the name of it — I’m not sure. We were thinking I probably sprained the muscle, which is like a slight tear, which will probably take a few days to heal. A few days and I’ll be back.”

“I ain’t worried about the pain, it hurts like hell but the worst thing is that I couldn’t really skate,” he said. “I always get injured but I never get an injury where I can’t get back on the board. Remember we had the nine stitches? That didn’t mean we couldn’t skate the next day, so we skated the next day.” – MTV

Two photos of Lil Wayne skateboarding with Justin Bieber and no arm sling on surfaced online yesterday, so it does look like Weezy is fully-healed from his skateboarding injury. Also, I wonder if this new clip we have got means DJ Scoob Doo and Tune are planning to release The Nino Brown Story Part 3 soon

On Sunday, January 26th, Lil Wayne helped celebrate DJ Stevie J’s birthday at LIV Nightclub in Miami, Florida. You can view lots of photos from the party after the jump below, courtesy of WRE. Other people who attended the birthday bash were: Mack Maine, Birdman, Detail, Fabolous, Trey Songz, Ne-Yo, Wiz Khalifa, Amber Rose and Dr. Dre.

Weezy must of got chatting to Dre at LIV, because last night they were in the studio together working on Detox and maybe I Am Not A Human Being II.

I posted a low quality rip of Bow Wow‘s “Sweat” music video featuring Lil Wayne one week ago, now here is a high quality version! This song will appear on Bow Weezy‘s upcoming Underrated album, dropping in March. YMCMB’s Birdman and Detail can also be seen in the visual.

Check out some behind the scenes footage from the video shoot here and some photos here.

Here is the official music video for Lil Wayne‘s “Mirror” single featuring Bruno Mars. The visual was directed by Antoine Fuqu and the song appeared on the deluxe edition of Weezy‘s Tha Carter IV album.

GT manages to get hold of the CDQ version of Lil Wayne‘s “That’s What They Call Me“. This track leaked back in April last year with skips and a Gudda Gudda verse; none of these are now on the new mastered version. Listen and download the Mike Banger-produced song below:

Download: Lil Wayne – That’s What They Call Me [CDQ]

“Now they call me Tunechi, it’s no longer just Tune”

Lil Wayne has just released episode 3 of his “Weezy’s Sports Corner” series! You can watch the intro above and after the jump, Tunechi talks about NFL, College Football, NBA, College Basketball, Major League Baseball and Skateboarding. Tune can also be seen with an arm sling on, this is due to a skateboarding accident. If you missed episode 2, then you can check that out here. Enjoy!

Weezy talks about NFL.

Weezy talks about College Football.

Weezy talks about NBA.

Weezy talks about College Basketball.

Weezy talks about Major League Baseball.

Weezy answers 2 fan questions.

Outro.

Shouts to Derick G

Check out these photos of Lil Wayne sitting courtside with Mack Maine at the Miami Heat vs. New York Knicks game yesterday (January 27th) at the American Airlines Arena in Florida. As you can see from the pics (more after the jump), Weezy is rocking some of his TRUKFIT clothing, which will be released in early February.

In other news, Ke$ha dropped the official music video for her “Sleazy Remix 2.0: Get Sleazier” single featuring Tunechi, Andre 3000, Wiz Khalifa and T.I. last night. None of these music artists appear in the visual, but if you still want to watch it, you can do so here.