Chris Brown paints on muscles for performance at BETs

He had to come up with a special routine to stop people talking about his recent bar brawl with rival Drake.

And volatile Chris Brown just about managed it at the BET Awards tonight when he painted muscles onto his torso before strutting his stuff during an extravagant laser show.

He raised the level of performance even further by pulling off a series of acrobatic moves on stage, including handstands and back-flips, during a medley of Don't Wake Me Up and Turn Up The Music.

Laser quest: Chris Brown was determined to put on a showstopping dance routine at the BET Awards tonight

He was also surrounded by a group of dancers in muscle paint for the performance, launching the routine into new levels of camp.

Chris Brown gets some scary new body art.(PHOTOS)

Chris Brown has something to say and he's doing it with an intimidating new tattoo.

The multi-hyphenate star whose body was already filled with ink, just got the bold tattoo added to his neck.

Tattoo artist Peter Koskela tweeted pictures of the 23-year-old star getting inked on Friday night at Black Banditz on L.A.'s trendy Melrose Avenue.

Getting inked: A tattoo artist tweeted this picture of himself working on Chris Brown's neck on Friday night in Los Angeles