Chance The Rapper Takes Home Grammy For “Best New Artist”

Chance The Rapper made history tonight (Feb. 12), becoming the first unsigned artist in history to win “Best New Artist” at the Grammys, after beating out Anderson.Paak and The Chainsmokers.

The Chicago MC was presented the award by Jennifer Lopez and on stage by Peter Cottontale and his manager Pat.

“Glory be to God,” he said while at the podium. “I claim this victory in the name of the Lord. Let’s go!”

Check out Chance’s acceptance speech below.

Chance The Rapper accepting the Best New Artist award 🙌 #GRAMMYs pic.twitter.com/0fKBurd2s1

— Rap Direct (@RapDirect_) February 13, 2017

Here’s @chancetherapper‘s acceptance speech for Best New Artist #GRAMMYs pic.twitter.com/RuvHDKW7uH

— Complex Music (@ComplexMusic) February 13, 2017

Shortly after receiving the award, Drake, who is currently on tour in Europe, sent Chano some celebratory texts, of which Chance took a screenshot and posted it to Instagram.

More Love @champagnepapi

A photo posted by Chance The Rapper (@chancetherapper) on Feb 12, 2017 at 4:15pm PST

Chano also won “Best Rap Performance” for “No Problem” feat. Lil Wayne and 2 Chainz.

The “No Problems” rapper kicked off 2017 on an amazing high note. Besides being the first unsigned artist to win a Grammy for “Best New Artist” and being the face of the new #ThankUObama clothing line, Chance the long-awaited video for “Same Drugs” earlier this month.

The Jake Schreier directed visual opens with Chance sitting at a grand piano and features appearances from the puppets that joined him for the Magnificent Coloring World Tour.  The colorful, yet artistically simple video then features Chance later standing up to perform while snowflakes fall on him before he walks through the “video set”, revealing that everyone in the world, besides himself, is a Jim Henson-inspired muppet.

Dubbed as one of the best songs on Coloring Book, “Same Drugs” left fans begging for a music video, to which Chance finally obliged. The video follows previous Coloring Book singles, “No Problem” (which featured 2 Chainz, Lil Wayne, Young Thug, and DJ Khaled), “Angels,” and “How Great.”