"I've never won anything before, this is a really crazy feeling,"
"My first time being nominated for a Grammy was 10 years ago. It's been a really long time and nobody who has ever come along this journey with me I take for granted."
"Fuck ICE."
Kehlani won the 2026 Grammy Award for Best R&B Performance for "Folded," prevailing over entries by Chris Brown and Bryson Tiller ("It Depends"), Justin Bieber ("Yukon"), Leon Thomas ("Mutt [Live from NPR's Tiny Desk]"), and Summer Walker ("Heart of a Woman"). The wins included Kehlani's first Grammy, with a subsequent victory that night for Best R&B Song, also for "Folded." Acceptance remarks included expressions of surprise about never having won before and a reference to a first Grammy nomination occurring ten years earlier. The acceptance concluded with an explicit political statement, "Fuck ICE." The prior year's winners were Muni Long (Best R&B Performance) and SZA (Best R&B Song).
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