Chance The Rapper BET Awards 2017: The Rapper Became The Youngest Recipient Of The Humanitarian Award [VIDEO]
Chance the Rapper was the recipient of the Humanitarian Award at the 2017 BET Awards. The 24-year-old rapper was the youngest person ever to receive the award and he was certainly not emotionally prepared enough.
Chance has donated over $1 million to Chicago's public schools, created a nonprofit organization for youth empowerment and raised over $100,000 for a charity at his birthday party.
The Chicago rapper's work in his community definitely did not go unnoticed, especially by Barack and Michelle Obama.
Referring to him as an "outstanding role model" and an "inspiration to people who care about our next generation," the Former First Lady left a personal video message expressing how proud she was of Chance.
"Barack and I are so sorry that we can't be there tonight in person, but please know we are there with you in spirit and we are so incredibly proud of you Chance," she said.
Chance commenced his speech by saying he didn't feel prepared or deserving enough to receive the award.
"I had plans originally to try and tell the world and everybody watching how to make it a better place," he said. "To tell everybody in this government that y'all need to let everybody out of jail for selling weed before you start making it legal for people to sell it and make capital off of it. I was gonna tell the Chicago Public School System not to take out a loan from Chase Bank when they know that our schools are planning on failing in our district. I was gonna tell those judges that we just need a conviction when you know these (expletives) wrong for doing this."
The rapper also expressed how proud he was of his community and how much he loved black people. He also stressed on how he wanted to become a better father to his daughter.
On Monday, the rapper took to Instagram to express his gratitude and posted a video of his award with the caption, "#Grateful"
