-I want to get into all the stuff you do,
because you fascinate me.
-Thank you. -Yeah, with everything,
with your music, but also I saw a tweet today,
this morning, that really just brightened my day.
You said, "I can´t be the only person who wakes up wishing he
could hang out with Drake more.
The guy looks like all he does is have a good time."
-That´s the truth.
[ Cheers and applause ]
-I love Drake.
-I love Drake. I think we live in a time
where people are ashamed to say how much they love Drake
or enjoy what he does.
And I´m totally rebelling against that.
I just want to say, shout out to Drake
and your whole team, shout out to Future, everybody.
[ Cheers and applause ]
-We love Drake.
We love Drake so much.
We have mini -- mini -- We have mini Drakes.
-Aww. We invented a mini Drake
so that we could always have him.
-Yeah, right? -He can sit --
He can hang out with us whenever he wants.
Every show, we have mini Drake.
That´s what I´m talking about. He can just hang out
and just hang with us. It´s always good to have him.
-I feel much better now. -You do feel better, yeah.
Chance, I want to talk about this.
You´re hosting "Saturday Night Live"
for the first time. -Yeah.
-Are you excited? -I very much so am.
I love the whole cast and crew.
This is my fourth time being in the building.
-Yeah. -All the other times,
I was a musical guest. But it´s just, you know,
hosting is a whole different thing.
I got in on Monday. And I´ve just been in New York
every day writing with the cast and meeting everybody.
It´s a crazy feeling. I love it.
-You´re the first unsigned artist to ever host the show.
That´s the thing that I think you´ve done that
you changed the game.
[ Cheers and applause ]
You don´t have a label.
-Yeah. -You don´t have a label
and then yet, you just won Grammys
even though you didn´t sell any physical copies of a record.
I just think it´s cool. I know it´s just fun.
-It doesn´t make sense. -It doesn´t make --
It´s fun, right? -Yeah.
It doesn´t make sense, but it´s an awesome thing.
It´s cool, ´cause I don´t have anything.
Like, there´s nobody before me that was the first,
first unsigned artist.
So it´s not like I have to live up to anybody´s expectations.
I could be terrible on the show.
-Doesn´t matter. -Still the first.
Still the first.
-It doesn´t even matter, exactly.
I heard that you´re writing some stuff.
-I am, yeah!
Come on, clap for me!
[ Cheers and applause ] -You wrote some sketches?
-I wrote three sketches that will make it into the show.
Well, they´ll make it to dress rehearsal.
So they could get pulled.
Lorne could pull them last minute.
But hopefully, as of right now,
I got three sketches on the show.
-You were just thinking about this in your head?
You go, "Oh, I have a couple ideas
that I could do something?" -Yeah,
Well, I actually wrote five. I came here with five.
I mean I -- you know, I´m a huge fan of the show.
And I know that, like, when they bring in a guest host,
they usually come with a few ideas at least,
especially if they´re, you know, into comedy.
And so I brought a few sketches by.
One of them made it.
I actually got to give credit to my good friend Donald Glover
who helped me with the idea.
[ Cheers and applause ]
He´s a great dude as well.
-Yeah, yeah, yeah. -But yeah, no,
it´s a crazy thing to have people enjoy, you know,
what I have to bring to the table.
-You´re gonna do some comedy, I love it.
And Eminem. You´ve opened for Eminem before,
but you guys, have you ever hung out?
-Still have not met Eminem. I´ve --
-You never met him? -I haven´t.
But I´m a huge, huge fan.
And so, that´s, like, one of the main things.
I feel like it´s my birthday week.
I´m back with you.
I don´t believe any of this stuff is
really happening.
But yeah, I´m about to meet Eminem so,
another round of applause for that.
[ Cheers and applause ]
-How great is that dude?
I think you guys together is gonna be an electric show.
-Thank you, Jimmy. -I wanna say,
was it at the BET awards where Michelle Obama gave
you a humanitarian award? -Yeah, I was humanitarian
of the year 2017.
-How cool does that feel?
How great does that feel? What an honor.
-It´s amazing.
It´s what I do it for, honestly, is the accolades, so --
[ Laughter ]
-Exactly right.
[ Imitates rim shot ]
[ Rim shot ] All right, thank you.
You gave, I wanna say, I mean, I think it was like
a million dollars of your own money to Chicago,
to a public school system just to try to help them out.
But that´s -- you did that --
[ Cheers and applause ]
No one asked you to do it.
You just did it, and said, "I´m going to do this,"
and that inspired other people to give more...
-Yeah. -...and things to change.
-We actually have a big announcement.
I´m not going to say it now, ´cause that will mess up Monday
but I do have -- [ Drum roll ]
-No, no, not yet.
Now we gets the drum roll.
-Yeah, no, we have been raising a lot of money.
We´ve raised about $2.5 million since February
for Chicago Public Schools.
[ Cheers and applause ]
And the year´s not over yet.
So we have more announcements coming,
I think Monday when we get back to Chicago.
But yeah, it´s been a great campaign.
It´s ran by SocialWorks, my nonprofit 501(c)(3).
And we´ve been trying to collect funds to try and, you know,
one, get better schooling for kids in the inner city,
and then also just, you know, create a bigger conversation
about funding formulas in the U.S. and how we choose
to fund certain schools over other schools.
-Interesting. Well you´re doing --
[ Cheers and applause ] That is tricky.
You´re doing a thing, too -- You´re starting a thing called
the Twilight Awards. -Yes.
-And this is exciting to me ´cause I mean, you were saying
there´s so many music award shows.
There´s a lot. There really is.
Almost too many. -Too many.
-Yeah. One way to think about it.
Yeah. But there´s nothing
of this idea that you have.
And what is this idea for the Twilight?
So, the Twilight Awards will be hosted in Chicago in 2018,
in June of 2018.
And it will be the first awards show of ours
that is honoring principals, teachers, students, and parents
that show excellence throughout the school year.
And it should be an amazing night.
We´re hoping to have a lot of special guests there,
a lot of special performances, and take a moment to honor
the people that do some of the most important work
in our country. -Yeah.
[ Cheers and applause ]
That´s why -- That´s why I love you, man!
And if I can help out in any way --
-You can definitely help out.
-I would love to help out, man.
-That´s contractual. -Yeah, is that contractual?
-You already did it.
-Count me in, man. Chance the Rapper!
He´s hosting "Saturday Night Live"
this weekend with musical guest Eminem.