Welcome To The Empire

Season 1 Episode 4

Meagan sat bored in a meeting with her dad, Hakeem and the A&R team which included Anika.

"I'm gonna ask you one more time. What do you want?" Lucious demand from Hakeem looking down at him beside Meagan.

"I just told you. We could shoot a music video, pop some bottles, get some pretty girls and then we can get some gigs" Hakeem explained.

Meagan rolled her eyes, "this nigga" Meagan mumbled.

"You want to run Empire one day? 'Cause that's not gonna cut it". Lucious slightly yelled at him.

"At least I got songs. Jamal doesn't have any new songs. He's so busy complaining about how life socks living in Bushwick because he cut himself off" Hakeem protested.

"Look, I'm not talking about Jamal. I'm asking you, what do you want?" Lucious question again.

Meagan took out her laptop and began to reply to some emails about her company Majesty being that this meeting she is in is never-ending.

"Lucious, let's just think about pushing back the release date for the album" Anika suggested seeing that this was going nowhere with Hakeem. 

"No, no, we're not pushing back the release date. His album drops the day that Empire goes public. Meagan leaves for college in less than three months so she only releasing singles for now" Lucious explains himself.

"Why are you riding everybody so hard?" Anika questioned curiously.

Lucious looked at his A&R team, "okay, let me explain to y'all what I want" Lucious began but was cut off with Cookie entering with her assistant and Becky following behind her.

"Let me tell you what I want. What I want is a better office, not a broom closet on the 13th floor, next to accounting. And I would also like to have full benefits for my assistant here" Cookie told him smiling.

"Sir, there's nothing I can do. Homegirl gave HR a dead person's Social Security number" Becky explained to Lucious.

"Uh, sorry, but I don't do taxes" Porsha explains herself which caused Meagan to laugh.

"It's fine Becky, I'll take care of it" Meagan said not looking up from her laptop, Lucious sent her a look that she didn't see but felt.

"Have you met Jazz and Sky?" Meagan questioned amusingly, as she log into Empire's HR server.

"Look, Cookie, I will work on getting you a better office, but right now I need you to leave min so I can do my job" Lucious told sounding absolutely stressed out.

"Yeah, 'Cause your little Mally Mal, he need all the help he can get right now" Hakeem said smirking at Cookie.

"Lord, why can't this boy keep his mouth shut?" Meagan questioned looking up.

"You know what? You need to stop rapping like you're from the streets 'Cause you not about that life" Cookie told him getting up in his face.

"Amen to that" Meagan mumbled, Cookie heard her and smiled a bit.

Cookie grab Hakeem's glasses from him that he was playing with, "you want to know why 'No Apologies' was so good? It was the best thing you ever did because it was about Bunkie, and that was really for you. Cause you rapped from right here. Stay there" Cookie told him hitting him in the chest.

Anika chuckled amusingly, Meagan gave her a confused look cause ain't shit funny. "Where's your office, boo-boo kitty?" Cookie question her, but then face Lucious.

"You know what? You need to just put me in her office I know what Hakeem needs" Cookie suggested.

Anika stood up facing Cookie glaring at her, "and it's not some debutante with a bougie ear who doesn't want to disturb her pearls" Cookie said pulling slightly on Anika's pearls.