The pilot for Lee Daniels' Shakespearean hip-hop soap Empire starts with record executive Lucious Lyon (Terrence Howard) in the studio, frustrated with one of his artists trying to lay down a track. She's just not giving it that pop, that spark it needs to take off. "I need you to sing like you are going to die tomorrow," Lucious says after the first failed take. The second doesn't hit either, so he enters the booth and asks her to remember her brother's murder: "How did it feel when you had to go identify his body?" And the third time's the charm — she nails it. Turning soulful singing into an equation — or an artist's adversity into a marketable product — and repeating it ad infinitum is the secret of Lucious' job.
Empire is about the...
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