Empire IMAGINES

First Meet

"Y'all ain't got no bacon?" Cookie asks as Jaunita sets downs some more food on the table. "Oh, you don't talk." "I do talk." Jaunita says with an attitude. "Thank you. That's enough." Luscious says as Jaunita exits the room. "I'm not backstabbing my son." He says as he sits down. "I know you have Hakeem performing at the opening of Leviticus. Put Jamal up there, too."  "No. It's only gonna be Hakeem."  He says as he grabs a glass of orange juice. "Don't do this, Luscious." "Jamal doesn't belong on my stage. It's not his audience." "'His audience'? Jamal's music is universal, and you know it." "I've invested a whole lot of money into Leviticus. I'm not gonna have it branded a homosexual club." "Cookie, you can talk as much mess as you want, but I have nine of Empire's top acts and none of them are gonna be there, so. The night is not about Jamal-" Anika says but is cut off by Cookie. "Excuse me, sweetie, this is a family matter involving two of my sons and the family business that Luscious and I started with my $400,000." "Excuse me baby." Luscious says as he grabs Cookie by the hand and drags her out into the hall. "Yeah, with my money." She says to Anika before she exits into the hallway. "Cookie can I talk to you for a second?" He asks as he yanks her out of her seat. "Get your hands off me! I'm not that tired heifer." "You signed a nondisclosure agreement not to say anything about the $400,000, or have you forgotten already?" "She don't know that it was my $400,000 in drug money that started this company, does she?" Cookie says as she gets in Luscious's face. "I went away for a long time for you to build all of this. I missed my sons growing up. I'm gonna make some things right. You not shutting Jamal out no more." She says pointing a finger in his face and grabbing her purse. "It's not gon happen."

~At the Studio~

"I'm here with Hakeem Lyon on the eve of his debut performance at Leviticus. Yo, Keem, you getting ready to be famous?" One of his friends says as he is recording him. "I mean, that's the plan, ain't it? My pop's setting me up to be the prince of Empire, so-" "Hold on, hold up." One of his friends says. "You ain't getting ready to be nothing unless you finish with that rehearsal first. My, What... Oh, my God.!" He says as Hakeem shoots him with a nerf gun. "Play too damn much." He says but stops when Y/N runs in looking at her watch causing all of the boys to look at her. "Look at that." One of them says. "And who are you? What's up?" Hakeem says looking at her. "Wrong room." Y/N says as turns around and runs the other way. "You ain't got the wrong... come here." He yells after her, but she's already turned the corner. "Hey, who that?" He asks Chicken. "That's Y/N, man. Your pop's girl just signed her. She famous." "I need to be all up in that." Hakeem says. "Yeah." He says as he gets up. "We going?" One of the boys says as they leave the room.

~Y/N's Outfit~