![]() His first line of the pilot - “I need you to sing like you are going to die tomorrow,” he tells Empire artist Veronica while she’s working through a take of “What Is Love” in the studio - recalls George Clinton’s legendary command to Parliament Funkadelic guitarist Eddie Hazel to play the guitar “like your momma had just died” during the 1970-71 recording of Maggot Brain. Lucious’s other character nuances pull from further afield than hip-hop. ![]() ![]() Needless to say, there are many, many spoilers ahead. We rewatched Daniels’s truth, along the way compiling this guide to industry headlines and music history that have directly and indirectly inspired the Empire Entertainment universe. People ain’t gonna like it, but learn to tell the truth.’” “She told me when I was five or four, you know, ‘You are a faggot. “I write what I know, what I live, what I taste, what I eat, what I know to be truthful,” Daniels said at the BET Honors, dedicating his award to his grandmother, whom he cites as the chief inspiration for Cookie Lyon. "Empire" is rife references implicit and explicit - some well-known, others more obscure, and sometimes even ones spoken aloud by characters in weirdly meta moments. Don’t let its melodrama or palatial hip-hop fantasy get you twisted, the show - set to return with a mid-season premiere tonight (March 30) after a four-month cliffhanger - is ostensibly historical fiction, given too little credit for its in-depth knowledge of not just hip-hop but the industry at large. headlines and “The Wire” polemicized Baltimore’s drug war, "Empire" echoes the last few decades of the American music industry. Similarly to how “The West Wing” composited D.C.
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