![]() It’s also a problem for Lucious who threw Jamal into a trashcan for acting “women like” in one flashback scene. ![]() Lucious ultimately wants him to play background for Hakeem’s career as Jamal’s homosexuality could be a problem. First is the lack of creative freedom in being his own solo artist a problem with many songwriters attempting to make that transition have. Playing middle child and overall voice-of-reason, Jamal is facing two battles within the music industry. ![]() Clearly, this attitude makes up one of the pilot’s highlights involving Hakeem taking a beating from his mother. Due to his age and life living under a more well off Lucious, the level of respect toward Cookie is little to none. The youngest son Hakeem, like mentioned in the previous entry of Empire State of Mind, fits stereotype of every rapper modeled after Lil Wayne with a temper similar to Chris Brown. Feeling the most entitled, his manipulative wife Rhonda Lyon has her own unknown motives. Oldest son Andre has been helping run Empire with a specific level of expertise due to his ivy league education. Coming back to freedom a decade and some change later, her three sons are at vastly different points in life. Meanwhile, Cookie is just released out of prison after getting caught up running drugs to fund Lucious’ rap career. Matter of fact, most eventually swallowed up by a bigger entity. Pretty far fetched considering a rap label hasn’t gone anywhere near gaining an IPO. When introduced to Lucious, he’s received his ALS diagnosis just as Empire Enterprises is close to going public on the New York Stock Exchange. Dre & 9 Other Artists taking the Ice Bucket Challenge , Jay Z Details Drug Dealing Guilt in Vanity Fair, Jimmy Henchman Found Guilty Of Murder-For-Hire Real Life Counterparts: Hakeem as Lil Wayne/Chris Brown, Cookie as Deborah Antney, Lucious as Jay Z/Master P, Episode One: PilotĮmpire Characters: Hakeem, Cookie, Lucious, Jamal This week, we recap the story so far and attempt to find out how close Empire captures the music industry. With that in mind, DX will be presenting a weekly series based around the show entitled “Empire State of Mind” which will recap episodes and offer insight into possibly inspired scenarios among others. Those with both underlying and surface level knowledge of the culture are bound to have a grand time naming those varying aspects. ![]() This leads to an interesting power struggle between executive eldest son Andre, singer/songwriter middle child Jamal and hot-headed aspiring rapper and youngest sibling Hakeem.Īlready a hit with both viewers and critics, Empire takes inspiration from news and rumors that have spread throughout Hip Hop for decades. A huge bulk of the drama also comes through Lucious’ recent diagnosis of ALS and which of his three sons get control after his eventual death. Recently released from prison after a seventeen year sentence for drug charges, Cookie wants half of Empire Enterprise as cash gained through illicit dealings funded the company’s early beginnings. This is where Henson’s portrayal of ex-wife Cookie Lyon comes in. Focused on record label and media company Empire Enterprise, Howard stars as Lucious Lyon former drug dealer turned rapper who has built the American dream through even more questionable means. Henson, the FOX series has already been dubbed Hip Hop’s equivalent to ABC’s insanely popular country music-based Nashville. Television’s first great hour-long musical drama of 2015, Empire, has become a water cooler conversation initiator after making its debut earlier this month.
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