She finished up her speech with a sweet dedication to her mother who passed away in March 2019 (via Oprah Magazine). "And I really want to say thank you to my mama, she's not here with me today but I know she is here with me in spirit and she always believed I could do it, so thank you all so much."
The Houston artist has been around for years, but it was her hit "Big Ole Freak" in 2019 that first got her onto the Billboard charts (via USA Today). From there, her star has just kept rising, and along with Best New Artist, she also won best rap performance with Beyonce for "Savage" (via Pitchfork) and has been nominated for best rap song and record of the year (via the Grammys website).
While she won Best New Artist just this year, she's been working on lyrics and her music nearly her entire life. "I've been writing since I was maybe seven," she told Rolling Stone, "I was kind of shy about telling people that I could rap for the longest."
