“The Streets Ain’t Made For Everyone, That’s Why They Made Sidewalks:” The Best Empire Quotes

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Lucious Lyon: “My music expresses my world, that’s how I grew up, where you either sold drugs or you watched children go hungry, where half of your family is locked off in prison. Our music is more of a narration of an oppressed people. You see the Empire artists are telling the next generation that even though they live in a world where Trayvon Martin can get shot down like a dog without…”

Reporter: “How does it give them hope if all the songs do is promote more violence.”

Lucious Lyon: “While there’s hope in the fact that these kids are expressing their anger with music and poetry and not with a 12-gauge shotgun.”

Most of “Empire” shines a spotlight on the buttoned-up, corporate hustler that is Lucious Lyon. But in the midst of the Kid FoFo controversy, he shows the specter of the man who truly understands the struggle and sees the value that music can provide to millions of young men and women looking for a way out of the circumstances life has dealt them.

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