Best known for their work with Chance the Rapper—who’s also a member—the Chicago music collective Donnie Trumpet & The Social Experiment create a unique blend of jazz, R&B and hip-hop. • The Social Experiment features friends Peter Cottontale, Nate Fox, Nico Segal (formerly known as Donnie Trumpet) and Chance the Rapper. The friends notably collaborated on Chance’s mixtapes 10 Day (2012) and Acid Rap (2013). • After accompanying Chance on The Social Experiment Tour, the group issued a series of singles as The Social Experiment through Chance’s SoundCloud in 2014. • The following year, they released their free debut album, Surf, as Donnie Trumpet & The Social Experiment. The lead single, “Sunday Candy”, hit No. 21 on Billboard’s Hot R&B Songs chart. • Donnie Trumpet was the stage name of trumpeter and producer Nico Segal. After Donald Trump won the 2016 presidential election, Segal announced that he was ditching the moniker and henceforth using his birth name. • In 2016, Chance credited The Social Experiment as main producers on his mixtape Coloring Book. The free streaming-only album was the first of its kind to chart on the Billboard 200. • The success of Coloring Book led the Grammys to reconsider nomination eligibility for free and digital-only projects. In 2017, it was the first album to win a Grammy—for Best Rap Album—solely from streams.