I love the TV show Empire. I love that it is a musical drama because there are so few of those. 
I've actually never seen it before
It began on January 7, 2015 on the Fox network. Lee Daniels and Danny Strong created it. 
That's pretty damn recent, honestly.
Yes, but it is extremely popular. It is about a hip hop music and entertainment business called Empire Entertainment. The people who founded it fight for control. 
Sounds pretty good, I'll have to check it out.
Hip hop music
Hip hop music, also called hip-hop or rap music, is a music genre developed in the United States by inner-city African Americans and Latino Americans in the Bronx borough of New York City in the 1970s. It consists of a stylized rhythmic music that commonly accompanies rapping, a rhythmic and rhyming speech that is chanted. It developed as part of hip hop culture, a subculture defined by four key stylistic elements: MCing/rapping, DJing/scratching with turntables, break dancing, and
List of Empire characters
"Empire" is an American musical drama television series created by Lee Daniels and Danny Strong which debuted on January 7, 2015 on Fox. Although filmed in Chicago, the show is based in New York City and it centers on a fictional hip hop music and entertainment company, Empire Entertainment, and the drama among the members of the founders' family as they fight for control of the company.
Main characters.
- Lucious Lyon (Terrence Howard (original cast), 2015–present)