At the end of 2016, "Coloring Book" appeared on a number of critics' lists ranking the year's top albums. According to Metacritic, it was the seventh most prominently ranked record of 2016. Christgau ranked it as the ninth best album of the year in his ballot for "The Village Voice"s annual Pazz &amp; Jop critics poll. The album won Best Rap Album at the 2017 Grammy Awards. It was the first streaming-only album to win a Grammy.