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Happy Presidents' Day. Wait, is that a thing people say? YG & NIPSEY HUSSLE on DONALD TRUMP. FIONA APPLE on Trump. YOUNG JEEZY & NAS on BARACK OBAMA. JANELLE MONÁE on GEORGE W. BUSH. PINK on George W. Bush. EMIMEM on George W. Bush. TUPAC & THE OUTLAWZ on BILL CLINTON. PRINCE on RONALD REAGAN. BONZO GOES TO WASHINGTON on Reagan. The RAMONES on Reagan. KILLER MIKE on Reagan (and Obama). BLUE MOUNTAIN on JIMMY CARTER. JAMES BROWN on GERALD FORD. STEVIE WONDER on RICHARD NIXON (who, in the greatest act of pop music criticism ever, resigned two days after this single was released). LOU REED on JOHN F. KENNEDY. J.B. LENOIR on DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER. CHICAGO on HARRY TRUMAN. VIC CHESNUTT on WOODROW WILSON (sort of). CHARLIE POOLE & THE NORTH CAROLINA RAMBLERS on THEODORE ROOSEVELT and WILLIAM MCKINLEY. RAMBLIN' JACK ELLIOTT & DERROLL ADAMS on JAMES GARFIELD. CHRISTINE LAVIN on FRANKLIN PIERCE. THEY MIGHT BE GIANTS on JAMES K. POLK. MICHAEL FRIEDMAN on ANDREW JACKSON. LIN-MANUEL MIRANDA on GEORGE WASHINGTON... There was a lot of carping online about the price of tickets for the RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE reunion tour and, to be fair, if your name is Rage Against the Machine and your prices are anywhere north of the FUGAZI line, you're kind of asking for it, and the prices were way way north of there. But the most expensive ones, the ones that cost several hundred bucks or more, were doing the double duty of trying to keep scalpers at bay while also raising money for charities along the tour route. And Rage's TOM MORELLO says the band raised more than $3 million for those charities in the first 48 hours. Touché... Longtime CHICAGO TRIBUNE music critic GREG KOT says farewell... CHAKA KHAN belongs in the ROCK AND ROLL HALL OF FAME and didn't deserve her early exit from THE MASKED SINGER last week, but the less said about her national anthem at Sunday's NBA all-star game, the better. (It kinda sorta rang a bell, though.) But JENNIFER HUDSON covering DONNY HATHAWAY in memory of KOBE BRYANT, wow. So many truths, so many tears... RIP JACOB THIELE, SCOTT SESSIONS and CHRIS HOPSON.