Travis Barker will perform with Drake, Lil Wayne and Eminem at next Sunday\'s 2010 Grammy Awards at Staples Center in Los Angeles, California. But the eternally busy drummer annex entrepeneur hasn\'t rehearsed yet. Explains Travis:\"I have yet to rehearse. I got a call, like, on Tuesday. Everyone found out a day after I did. So, I don\'t know exactly what I\'m doing yet.
I know I\'m playing drums. I know it\'s a performance with Eminem, Drake, myself and Lil Wayne. I think it might be the song Forever.\'\"
That would make sense: both Eminem and Wayne contributed verses to Drake\'s Forever, and Travis Barker contributed a blazing remix of the song earlier this year.
But the drummer\'s night won\'t just stop there. He\'s apparently also set to perform with Wayne on a version of Drop the World, from Weezy\'s upcoming \'Rebirth\' album (that track also features Eminem), which makes it sound very much like there\'s a medley on tap.
Unique collaborations
Sunday night’s award show will also feature Tré Cool (official name: Frank Wright) and his band Green Day performing alongside the cast of their American Idiot musical, as well as a tribute to guitarist Les Paul featuring Jeff Beck and Imelda May.
Elton John, Roberta Flack and Jennifer Nettles have joined the lineup of performers. And the Grammys also announced this head-scratching combo: Jamie Foxx and T-Pain performing with Slash and Doug E. Fresh.
The Grammys have a long history of unlikely collaborations, and last year’s ceremony perhaps boasted the most eclectic team-ups in the show’s 52-year history.
Sometimes the experiment pays off: last year’s highlights include Dave Grohl and Paul McCartney performing the Beatles’ I Saw Her Standing There, Radiohead’s 15 Step with the USC Marching Band, a duet between Justin Timberlake and Al Green, and Coldplay’s version of Lost! with Jay-Z.
