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President Donald Trump is urging his followers to inform rapper Jay-Z that “because of my policies,” unemployment among black Americans is at the “LOWEST RATE EVER RECORDED!”_  by [Raisa Bruner](https://time.com/author/raisa-bruner/)  ## Raisa Bruner Jan 28, 2018 9:12 PM UTC President Donald Trump is urging his followers to inform rapper Jay-Z that “because of my policies,” unemployment among black Americans is at the “LOWEST RATE EVER RECORDED!”  by [Raisa Bruner](https://time.com/author/raisa-bruner/)  ## Raisa Bruner Jan 28, 2018 9:12 PM UTC Saturday night’s [Clive Davis](http://time.com/money/5121049/clive-davis-said-tickets-to-his-pre-grammy-gala-are-so-exclusive-50000-wouldnt-buy-one/) Pre-Grammy Gala has been one of the [hottest tickets](http://time.com/money/5121049/clive-davis-said-tickets-to-his-pre-grammy-gala-are-so-exclusive-50000-wouldnt-buy-one/) in the music business for years. At this weekend’s New York City party, held at the Sheraton Times Square with the Recording Academy, nearly 1,000 of the industry’s titans and politicians like Nancy Pelosi, news personalities like Katie Couric, and celebrities like Jerry Seinfeld and Martha Stewart joined the evening’s honoree Jay-Z (with Beyoncé, of course). They were in for an eclectic night of music: Barry Manilow kicked off the performances, followed by “Despacito” [writer Luis Fonsi](http://time.com/4913699/the-new-science-of-the-truly-unstoppable-impossible-to-resist-summer-jam/), Grammy-nominated [rappers Migos](http://time.com/5118041/rap-music-mainstream/) and Logic, and Best New Artist nominee [Khalid](http://time.com/4728284/how-khalid-makes-music/). Alicia Keys took on an extensive acoustic medley of Jay-Z’s seminal works, and Jennifer Hudson closed out the evening with a powerhouse performance. Legend Gladys Knight, _Hamilton_ star [Leslie Odom, Jr](http://time.com/4608373/leslie-odom-jr-hamilton-holiday-album/). and _Dear Evan Hansen_ actor Ben Platt also sang for the crowd, which included Sean “P. Diddy” Combs, P!nk, Andrew Lloyd Webber, and a who’s-who of music. But the real point of the night was to pay homage to Jay-Z, a 21-time Grammy winner — and the artist up for the most awards at Sunday night’s Grammys. The music scion received the 2018 Salute to Industry Icons Award, which has previously honored icons like Antonio “L.A.” Reid, Richard Branson and Debra L. Lee. In his introduction, Davis called Jay-Z a “towering talent.” “Jay, you are the ultimate music person,” Davis went on. “You have literally defined so much of the music business as we have known it and as it continues to evolve.” In his remarks, Jay-Z reflected on his early boycott of the Grammys. “I realized art is super subjective and everyone’s doing their best. And the Academy… they’re human,” he said, noting that he returned to the Grammys when Beyoncé was nominated. “That’s the whole idea: for all of us to get involved and to push this thing further,” he continued, referring obliquely to the Grammys’ delayed response to the [rise of hip-hop and rap.](http://time.com/5118041/rap-music-mainstream/) As Jay-Z’s Roc-A-Fella Records founding partner Biggs Burke told TIME, the evening was a dream come true. “I remember him as a young kid, and us dreaming to be at this point,” Burke said. “And now to see us here! But not only just being here, but still changing the culture.” Sunday night’s Grammys [start at 7:30 p.m. EST.](http://time.com/5111893/grammys-2018-when-where-nominees-performers/) ## Transcript We have a president that comes and says every African country is [ BEEP ] country. How does that land with you as a dad? It's disappointing and it's hurtful. It really is hurtful moreso, everyone feels anger. But after the anger is really hurtful because it's looking down on a whole population of people. And he's so misinformed because these places have beautiful people and have beautiful everything. And it's just this is the leader of the free world speaking like this, but on the other side, this has been going on. This is how people talk. This is how they talk behind closed doors. There was a moment where Donald Sterling had been exposed as this racist on a private phone conversation that he was having and they took his team from him. It's like okay, that's one way to do it but another way would have been let him have his team and let's talk about it together. Unless maybe some penalties but, cause once you do that all the other closet racists just run back in the hole. You haven't fixed anything. What you've done is sprayed perfume on a trash can. And what you do when you do that, is you know the bugs come and then you spray some thing and then they come and then you create a super bug. Right, because you don't take care of the problem, you don't take the trash out, you just keep spraying whatever over to make it acceptable. And then, as those things grow, you create a super bug, and then now we have Donald Trump, the super bug. I'm being funny, I said that too, but, Somewhere along his lineage something happened to him. 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