Grammy nominations don’t come easy for any artist, much less scoring seven of them. Chance the rapper totally understands the idea, which is why he went ahead and celebrated as if he had already won one of the awards on Tuesday night at a party in Chicago.
The night was as much as much about the people who supported him as if was for Chance himself. “Tonight we won, because I got nominated for a Grammy,” he said to crowd gathered Metro Chicago. “And I don’t plan on waiting until February to figure out if I won or lost. I decided tonight that because I’m surrounded by my best friends, by my family, that tonight was the winning night and I wanted to celebrate with you guys here in Chicago.”
He continued on to say that “If I do win any Grammy’s on that night, I promise that when I get on the stage, I’m gonna say ‘Glory be to God, I claim the victory in the name of the Lord.'”
.@chancetherapper speaks on possible Grammy win at his nomination event in Chicago pic.twitter.com/EcscAhSfml
— Andrew Barber (@fakeshoredrive) December 7, 2016
The event was one promised by chance months ago. During an interview with Billboard published October, he spoke on the prospects of his album Coloring Book being in contention for the awards and shared his plans for how he’d celebrate it. “If I get nominated, I’m going to throw a huge party in Chicago and I’ll fly in all my friends,” he said at the time. “We’ll celebrate the Grammys’ recognition of grass-roots independent artists and this new way of releasing music by nominating me. We’ll f*cking go crazy for, like, two days straight.”
It looks like the first night was a blast for Chance and everyone in the crowd.
Congratulations, @chancetherapper.
7 nominations for the Grammy Awards as an independent artist!
Chicago loves you. pic.twitter.com/aAxuhHrQOh
— Lyrical Lemonade (@LyricaLemonade) December 7, 2016
