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Eazy E – Lucious Lyon
His illness wasn’t as drawn out as Empire is going to make Lucious’ bout with ALS, but Eazy E might secretly the template for Fox’s ratchet runaway hit. Like Lucious Lyon, Eazy-E was a drug dealer who used his business acumen to hop into the record industry. Ruthless had a diverse roster of artists just like Empire Records, but Eazy wasn’t able to see his vision through after dying of complications from AIDS in 1992.
