J. Cole and 21 Savage add a significant victory to their list of award-show accomplishments.

The 2020 Grammy Awards, held at Staples Center in Los Angeles on Sunday (Jan. 26), saw 21 and J. Cole take home the trophy for Best Rap Song. Before the start of the presentation, they were declared the award winners.

YBN Cordae (“Bad Idea” featuring Chance The Rapper), Rick Ross (“Gold Roses” featuring Drake), DaBaby (“Suge”), and Nipsey Hussle were also nominated for the 2020 Grammy Award for best rap song (“Racks in the Middle” featuring Roddy Ricch and Hit-Boy).

The first track on 21’s I Am > I Was album, which he released in December 2018, is “A Lot.” It turned out to be an intense track for one with such an understated beat. A verse sparked many discussions by J. Cole in which he expressed his desire to pray for the 6ix9ine’s incarceration. Just two months earlier, when 21 was detained by ICE over his immigration status, the song was released.

In November 2019, the 2020 Grammy nominees were revealed. Every nominee in this category would have won this particular musical accolade for the first time. Rappers like Drake and Kendrick have previously won the award and will now be joined by 21.

The most frightful and vulnerable part of The Dynasty is saved for last when rock-hard MCs Jay-Z and Beanie Sigel get emotional. The two fatherless children, now prominent adults, discuss how their father’s absence shaped them. Jay screams, exposing a rare breach in the armor showed me the worst type of anguish.” The song was so moving that Jay and Beans felt compelled to bring it up again a year later on Sigel’s The Reason. On “Still Got Love for You,” Beanie argues, “Dynasty LP 16/Listen, Scrap, I can’t take back that 16.” I had to give the world actual quotes because, “Shit, the truth spoke.”