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- Previously on Empire...
- I didn't know Gram was

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performing with Tiana tonight.

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Why don't you spit some napalm

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on a diss track and bury him

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and everything he cares about.

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There is no head of
A&R to oversee the deal.

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- We hired Xavier Rosen.
- Who?

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Given the dangers to Ms. Gathers,

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the court agrees to grant bail.

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What I was most proud of

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was that you paid off that doctor.

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How does it feel to know
you're just like your daddy?

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- I had to put in work on a couple of cats.
- Mm-hmm.

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The three horsemen who wanted us dead.

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Well, there was a fourth horseman.

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But Shine, he ain't no snitch.

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Cookie, we're not that different.

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I truly believe we can make this work.

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- That was hot.
- Oh, so...

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first you hate me, then you love me.

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You have no idea...

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... what you're worth.

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An attack on me is an attack

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on each and every one of you.

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Lucious and Andre Lyon want a war.

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So we war.

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Yeah, that feel right to you?

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I think you could make
that bass a little harder.

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Yeah.

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Look, I know we haven't
worked together in a while,

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but I appreciate you coming through.

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Feel like this is about
to be something big.

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Couldn't think of anyone better.

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Oh, come on, Mal.

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You know we make good music together.

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Yeah.

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Yeah, we do.

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But that's all we need to do, Derek.

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Let's go kill some Lyons.

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You heard him. Let's roll.

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Now, you know I love getting
coffee with you before work,

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but one of these days,

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you got to let me
bring it to you in bed.

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Huh. Well, I might like that,

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one of these days in the far future.

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Oh, the future, okay.

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Come on. No... no sugar? No cream?

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Oh, no. I like mine dark and strong.

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Ah, well, you're gonna have
to do a little better than that

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if you want to get in these drawers.

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Make a right right here.

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Watch out for the cops.

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And make sure Tony has his guys fan out.

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Yes, sir.

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And we got three marks over there

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at that hot dog stand.

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Now, you see that dude
with the newspaper?

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Nobody reads print anymore.

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I never thought I'd be making

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doctor visits in an
armored personnel carrier.

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Well, I know Shine;
he's gonna clap back.

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So if you want to step your ass out

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and see if you're bulletproof, go ahead.

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I'm-a try Nessa one more time.

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Still texting Nessa again?

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When you gonna hit that?

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I will.

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I want her to meet my daughter.

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Cute little babies, that
always gets the girls.

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I thought it was your rap
skills that got the honeys.

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That, too.

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I'm-a invite her to
my livestream concert.

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Once she sees me doing
my thing, it's game over.

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That's gonna be enough?

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Period.

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- Get him.
- Yeah.

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And that bitch of his gonna
catch a few of these, too.

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So why are you going
through so much trouble

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to announce you're running for mayor?

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- I say just call a couple reporters...
- Right.

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... do the damn thing,
and keep it moving.

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Well, you know, I just
want to be prepared

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for any questions
they might throw at me.

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Oh. Yeah, questions like,

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uh, "Why are you trying
to date an ex-con?" Huh?

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Yes, they may ask that.
But, look, I'll just say,

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"I haven't been to
third base yet," so...

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Unless we're planning on, you
know, changing that tonight.

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No. I got to see my P.O. tomorrow.

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You still have a parole officer?

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Yeah, it's called
supervised release, so...

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- Heads up, Councilman.
- Excuse me, Ms. Lyon.

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You need to come with us.

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- Step back.
- Uh, no, I don't.

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I don't even know who the hell you are.

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All right, stand down.

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What's going on here, gentlemen?

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All due respect, Councilman.

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Your husband sent us, ma'am.

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- For your own safety.
- He is not my hu...

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- Come with us, ma'am.
- He's not my husband.

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Look, I don't know
what he did this time.

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Stay back. Stay back.

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Get your hands off of me!

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I'm sorry!

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Long night at the studio, huh, brother?

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Get some of these eggs, man.

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I made plenty.

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Good morning, sunshine.

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- Synced and corrected by chamallow -
- www.addic7ed.com -

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Yo...

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Shine, what the hell are you doing?!

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What the hell are you doing here?!

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You smashing this dude?

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After what him and his father did to me?

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That's how you got the bruise, Andre?

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We had a disagreement.

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Oh, we had a disagreement.

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No, no, no.

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Shine, look at me.

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- Get out the way, Nessa.
- Look at me!

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You're my brother, and I love you.

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I ain't got nobody else! You know that.

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And I will not have you catching
a case over this. Look at me.

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Let's go.

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Let's go.

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Let's go, Shine.

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Shine...

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No! Shine!

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I don't get my hands
dirty in front of her.

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But I'll be back.

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In fact, I think I'll save you for last.

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Hey, brother.

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Sorry about my friends, man.

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Sometimes they, uh...

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they get out of hand.

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What's with all the
security outside my spot?

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We're good for my livestream
show on Friday, right?

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Not exactly, Hakeem.

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Lucious, why don't you tell him.

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As I was saying, once Shine

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reentered into my orbit,

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I knew there was gonna come a time

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in which he needed to be corrected.

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So fortunately, last night,

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my eldest son and I decided

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that his actions were
extremely disrespectful

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and, if left unchecked,

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a threat to this family. And so we...

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... checked his ass.

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Checked him how?

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How you think?

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Except now Shine is at my
place trying to clap back.

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I'm sorry about that,
Jamal; it won't happen again.

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I'm moving in to Pop's guesthouse.

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No, Dre.

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Trust me, you don't want to
be all up under him like that.

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Hold up. We beating up our friends now?

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Boy, he is not your friend.

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Look, all of y'all, the only reason why

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we are even messing with
him is to block Tariq

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from building a case
against us, you got that?

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Now, how in the hell
are we gonna stop him

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from flipping out on us now?

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Because Shine is not a snitch.

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He'd rather be dead than be a rat.

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I swear, am I the only one...

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See, you love this type of drama.

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Yeah, he does.

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It brought my family
back together, didn't it?

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The music I'm doing with
Shine is some of my best stuff.

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Well, you're gonna have
to postpone that for now.

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I already told my fans it's happening.

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I don't care what you told your fans!

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Ain't no do-overs in
live streaming, Mom.

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There also ain't no do-overs
if you get shot in the head.

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Look, look, relax. Ain't
nobody changing anything.

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Everything stays according
to what we're doing.

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Everybody just needs to be
alert and stay in their lane.

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And then soon as you're
done playing house with...

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the mayor of Dingleberry,

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you owe me a Tiana single.

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And, Jamal, you can go back to doing

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whatever you do when
you're not making music.

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You want to help the
family? You help the family.

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You want to go and free
the world? Free the world.

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But, Keem, your Empire XStream show

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goes on as planned.

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We got to keep pushing them stats up.

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I got Shine exactly where I want him.

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Now it's time to tuck
his little bitch ass in.

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- There he is!
- Hakeem!

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What's up, little brother?

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You feeling this track?

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You already know.

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Get in.

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Yo, can you pause that?

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Yo, you want it?

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What I got to do for it?

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Make your Empire XStream event
a double bill. You and me.

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Come on, bro, I'm doing
my own jam right now.

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No, I get it, Hakeem. But listen,

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we could give the people what
they missed out on at the ASAs.

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And keeping it real, I need it, too.

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It's important that I show the
fans that I'm still in the game.

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Bro, you can't even perform.

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- You know that.
- Not in front of

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a big crowd with all these
bells and whistles, no.

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But I was thinking we could
do it at my living room.

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We could make it mad intimate

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and just blast it out to the fans.

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Maybe.

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Hakeem and Jamal, the Lyon brothers.

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Live and alive.

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You know the message that
that sends to the world?

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Why we even doing music

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if we don't make a real
imprint on the next generations?

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You know what this is about?

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You and Dad.

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That "end the cycle"
beef you got with him.

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Nah, man,

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it's about you and Bella.

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It's about the fact that our
father... her grandfather...

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beat up your favorite producer.

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That's really the type of world
you want her to grow up in?

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We're going to Laviticus.

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Yes, sir, Mr. Lyon.

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All right, listen.

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What's up, y'all? It's
your boy, Jamal Lyon.

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And I'm the smooth baby brother, Hakeem.

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And we have a very special announcement.

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- Tell 'em, Keem.
- Yeah. Nah, you tell 'em, Mal.

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All right, look, this Friday
make sure y'all are tuned in,

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8:00... we have a very special event.

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And look, #TeamKeem, all day, ladies.

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Yeah, yeah. Y'all know what that is.

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Hey, what kind of fun-boy stuff

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y'all two clowns doing up there, man?

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Hey, yo, what this dude doing

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- in our spot for, man?!
- Yo, yo, yo...

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What it look like I'm doing, man?

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I'm coming at you. You a MC. Battle me.

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- What, you want to go right now, little man?
- Keem...

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No, let's do it in front
of your subscribers.

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Let them enjoy the show.

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I'm-a bring my subscribers, too.

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I designed my own little
streaming apps and everything.

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I didn't need daddy money for that.

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But since I'm a gentleman,

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that's what I'm-a do for you, okay?

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I'm-a have you bloody
and trending worldwide

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in a matter of seconds.

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Say "cheese" for the camera.
Y'all like selfies, right?

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Yeah, anything for the fans.

255
00:11:16,427 --> 00:11:17,392
Thank you.

256
00:11:17,428 --> 00:11:19,161
We're gonna leave, man.

257
00:11:21,765 --> 00:11:25,000
- I got to go talk to him.
- Wait, stop. Come here!

258
00:11:25,035 --> 00:11:26,802
You are better than that.
We are better than that.

259
00:11:26,837 --> 00:11:27,903
Look at me.

260
00:11:27,938 --> 00:11:30,706
Start using your mind, all right?

261
00:11:30,774 --> 00:11:32,641
How the hell did he even get up in here

262
00:11:32,676 --> 00:11:33,942
with all of this security around?

263
00:11:36,714 --> 00:11:38,747
Lucious.

264
00:11:38,782 --> 00:11:40,749
So, we have that great new song,

265
00:11:40,784 --> 00:11:42,150
"Starlight." Tiana loves it,

266
00:11:42,186 --> 00:11:43,685
and I think it's time to record it.

267
00:11:43,787 --> 00:11:45,020
Well, I don't think it's a lead single.

268
00:11:45,122 --> 00:11:46,421
Now, the song she did at Laviticus is

269
00:11:46,457 --> 00:11:48,524
already getting crazy heat.
And the numbers show...

270
00:11:48,559 --> 00:11:50,392
Can we just stop with the
numbers really quickly?

271
00:11:50,427 --> 00:11:53,362
I actually spoke to Tiana, and
that song is not what she wants.

272
00:11:53,397 --> 00:11:54,830
Well, Becky, in A&R, we can't always

273
00:11:54,865 --> 00:11:56,565
give in to what the artist wants.

274
00:11:56,600 --> 00:11:57,900
Do not mansplain to me.

275
00:11:57,935 --> 00:12:00,736
And especially do not
white-mansplain to me.

276
00:12:00,838 --> 00:12:02,504
Then don't be uninformed.

277
00:12:02,540 --> 00:12:03,705
Now, if it makes you feel better,

278
00:12:03,741 --> 00:12:05,240
we can throw an experimental track

279
00:12:05,276 --> 00:12:07,276
- deeper in the album.
- This isn't about how I feel,

280
00:12:07,311 --> 00:12:09,311
first of all, and
secondly, I disagree...

281
00:12:09,413 --> 00:12:10,846
with everything that you are.

282
00:12:10,881 --> 00:12:13,048
Okay. Let's put down the guns.

283
00:12:13,083 --> 00:12:14,516
All right?

284
00:12:14,585 --> 00:12:16,485
Fiddler on the Roof here has a point.

285
00:12:16,554 --> 00:12:18,020
He's looking at the bigger picture.

286
00:12:18,122 --> 00:12:19,555
And I agree with him.

287
00:12:19,590 --> 00:12:22,291
That song Tiana did
is getting crazy heat,

288
00:12:22,326 --> 00:12:24,927
so that is the song
we will record. Okay?

289
00:12:24,962 --> 00:12:26,862
All right, now, can't
we just all get along?

290
00:12:26,897 --> 00:12:27,863
Kiss and make up.

291
00:12:28,899 --> 00:12:30,599
Don't.

292
00:12:38,008 --> 00:12:39,808
Nessa.

293
00:12:39,843 --> 00:12:41,376
Thanks for coming.

294
00:12:41,412 --> 00:12:43,412
You okay?

295
00:12:43,514 --> 00:12:45,614
Yeah, I...

296
00:12:45,649 --> 00:12:47,249
What the hell is going on, Dre?

297
00:12:47,284 --> 00:12:49,618
You think you can just hook up with me

298
00:12:49,653 --> 00:12:51,486
and then not tell me
that you just got done

299
00:12:51,522 --> 00:12:52,754
stomping out my best friend?

300
00:12:52,790 --> 00:12:54,890
- That's what we doing?
- I should've told you.

301
00:12:54,992 --> 00:12:56,592
I couldn't help it.

302
00:12:58,596 --> 00:13:00,095
So what do we do now?

303
00:13:02,199 --> 00:13:04,333
Lucious wants to have
a sit-down with Shine

304
00:13:04,368 --> 00:13:05,500
and get things back on track.

305
00:13:05,536 --> 00:13:06,602
What? A sit...

306
00:13:06,637 --> 00:13:07,936
I promise you, Nessa,

307
00:13:07,972 --> 00:13:09,671
we're not gonna screw him over.

308
00:13:09,707 --> 00:13:11,907
You better not, Dre.

309
00:13:11,976 --> 00:13:13,809
Because he's all I got.

310
00:13:13,877 --> 00:13:16,278
- Come here.
- N...

311
00:13:16,313 --> 00:13:18,780
Come here. Come here. Come here.

312
00:13:23,854 --> 00:13:26,755
I respect that he's all you got.

313
00:13:26,790 --> 00:13:28,724
You could have more.

314
00:13:31,061 --> 00:13:33,462
What you said when you came to see me...

315
00:13:33,497 --> 00:13:36,898
if you had my musical talent...

316
00:13:37,001 --> 00:13:38,433
what did you mean by that?

317
00:13:38,469 --> 00:13:41,069
Help me get Shine to the table.

318
00:13:43,007 --> 00:13:45,841
I'll show you what I meant by that.

319
00:13:51,048 --> 00:13:52,981
All right, Keem, you ready to put...

320
00:13:55,052 --> 00:13:56,852
You look surprised to see me.

321
00:13:56,887 --> 00:13:58,220
Surprised.

322
00:13:58,255 --> 00:14:01,923
But happy to see my son,
even if it's the wrong one.

323
00:14:01,992 --> 00:14:03,759
Okay.

324
00:14:05,529 --> 00:14:07,129
Well, look, I have good news.

325
00:14:07,164 --> 00:14:09,898
Hakeem is squashing that
little petty-ass beef with Gram.

326
00:14:09,933 --> 00:14:11,500
So, yes, I...

327
00:14:11,535 --> 00:14:14,736
I lost Freda, but...
I'm not losing Hakeem.

328
00:14:14,772 --> 00:14:18,874
Why are you throwing bricks when
you live in a glass house, son?

329
00:14:18,942 --> 00:14:21,309
Have you forgotten
all those lies you told

330
00:14:21,345 --> 00:14:23,378
in order to get Freda out of that place?

331
00:14:23,414 --> 00:14:25,514
- I did what I had to do.
- Yeah, and then

332
00:14:25,549 --> 00:14:28,116
you dropped her ass
back off in the projects.

333
00:14:28,218 --> 00:14:30,419
You know, Shakespeare said,

334
00:14:30,454 --> 00:14:32,020
"To thy own self be true."

335
00:14:32,056 --> 00:14:35,357
The sooner you accept that you
are the younger version of me...

336
00:14:35,459 --> 00:14:37,926
with a twist... the sooner you'll be

337
00:14:37,961 --> 00:14:40,796
back on that stage and
be your old self again.

338
00:14:40,898 --> 00:14:43,665
It's this space, man.

339
00:14:43,701 --> 00:14:46,234
Last time I sat in this chair,
I turned against my mother.

340
00:14:46,270 --> 00:14:47,669
Because she deserved it.

341
00:14:47,705 --> 00:14:49,571
And what do you deserve?

342
00:14:49,606 --> 00:14:51,506
How you get so corrupt?

343
00:14:51,608 --> 00:14:54,209
There's no way that
you were born this way.

344
00:14:54,278 --> 00:14:58,346
Jamal, you are 50% genetically
predisposed to become me.

345
00:14:58,382 --> 00:15:00,482
It's inevitable.

346
00:15:00,551 --> 00:15:03,185
You know what I like about Keem?

347
00:15:03,220 --> 00:15:06,455
He knows that he likes what I like,

348
00:15:06,490 --> 00:15:08,757
and he knows he's going to become me.

349
00:15:08,826 --> 00:15:11,126
He knows nothing except
what you told him.

350
00:15:11,161 --> 00:15:13,295
Maybe you should let him
be the man he wants to be

351
00:15:13,330 --> 00:15:14,863
instead of the man
that you want him to be.

352
00:15:14,898 --> 00:15:17,132
Oh, my God, you are so corny, Mal.

353
00:15:17,167 --> 00:15:20,435
I'm-a book a duet with
you and Mary Magdalene,

354
00:15:20,471 --> 00:15:23,405
soon as God gives me the okay.

355
00:15:23,474 --> 00:15:25,407
Oops. I said no.

356
00:15:35,189 --> 00:15:37,523
Hey, girl. How you doing?

357
00:15:37,558 --> 00:15:39,191
You look good! You lost weight.

358
00:15:39,260 --> 00:15:41,794
Julio, my man. Oh.

359
00:15:44,165 --> 00:15:45,731
- Sharlene!
- Holloway.

360
00:15:45,766 --> 00:15:47,900
Hey, girl, I bought you your favorite.

361
00:15:47,935 --> 00:15:50,836
- Keep it. You're late.
- Excuse me?

362
00:15:50,905 --> 00:15:54,139
Your appointment was 9:00
a.m. It's a quarter to 10:00.

363
00:15:55,576 --> 00:15:59,044
I know, but I always
come here at this time.

364
00:15:59,113 --> 00:16:02,548
You seem a little off. Is
there something I can do?

365
00:16:02,617 --> 00:16:04,250
The rules of your supervised
release stipulate that

366
00:16:04,285 --> 00:16:06,552
you need to contact me if
you're going to be late.

367
00:16:06,587 --> 00:16:08,187
I'm gonna have to write you up.

368
00:16:14,128 --> 00:16:16,695
What's going on, Sharlene?

369
00:16:16,731 --> 00:16:18,697
I don't know what you mean.

370
00:16:18,733 --> 00:16:20,699
Well, the last time I was here,

371
00:16:20,735 --> 00:16:23,002
you were showing me
pictures of your kids, and...

372
00:16:23,037 --> 00:16:24,403
now you're acting brand-new.

373
00:16:24,505 --> 00:16:25,504
About that.

374
00:16:25,573 --> 00:16:27,339
Your last visit was three months ago.

375
00:16:27,375 --> 00:16:29,875
Since you can't tell time,
we're going to have to have you

376
00:16:29,911 --> 00:16:31,210
report here three times a week.

377
00:16:31,245 --> 00:16:32,878
Oh! Sharlene, no, come on, now.

378
00:16:32,980 --> 00:16:34,380
You know I run a company.

379
00:16:34,415 --> 00:16:36,282
I can't come here three times a week.

380
00:16:36,317 --> 00:16:37,583
This isn't some thug rapper

381
00:16:37,618 --> 00:16:39,018
you're negotiating with, Holloway.

382
00:16:39,053 --> 00:16:42,521
This is the United States government.

383
00:16:52,133 --> 00:16:53,465
You need time to consider,

384
00:16:53,501 --> 00:16:55,935
I can send you back to
Danbury to think it over.

385
00:16:56,003 --> 00:16:59,004
Right now, you need to use the bathroom.

386
00:17:16,157 --> 00:17:18,123
Let's just get this over with.

387
00:17:18,192 --> 00:17:19,758
I'm sorry.

388
00:17:19,794 --> 00:17:22,394
I know you're not excited
to come in to record "Me."

389
00:17:22,463 --> 00:17:24,697
I get it... it's what Cookie wants.

390
00:17:26,367 --> 00:17:28,767
What if I told you that
you're actually here

391
00:17:28,803 --> 00:17:30,469
to record "Starlight"

392
00:17:30,504 --> 00:17:33,105
because it's about to
be your lead single?

393
00:17:33,207 --> 00:17:35,074
What? I thought Cookie said that...

394
00:17:35,109 --> 00:17:37,910
No, I... I talked her out of it.

395
00:17:37,945 --> 00:17:40,779
I told her that you were
gonna get in that booth

396
00:17:40,815 --> 00:17:42,514
and slay the hell out of that song,

397
00:17:42,550 --> 00:17:44,617
and she... agreed with me.

398
00:17:44,685 --> 00:17:46,185
- Are you serious?
- Dead serious.

399
00:17:46,220 --> 00:17:48,287
Oh, my God! Yo, thank you!

400
00:17:48,389 --> 00:17:49,488
You're the best.

401
00:17:49,523 --> 00:17:51,423
You know I got your back
like bra straps, girl.

402
00:17:51,525 --> 00:17:52,458
Yo!

403
00:17:52,493 --> 00:17:54,994
- I'm-a always get you what you want.
- Yeah! Yes!

404
00:17:57,531 --> 00:17:59,865
"I asked for bread in the name

405
00:17:59,900 --> 00:18:04,303
"of love and mercy, but
humanity did not heed me.

406
00:18:08,142 --> 00:18:11,477
So now I shall take it
in the name of evil."

407
00:18:13,147 --> 00:18:14,647
Why's she always sleeping?

408
00:18:15,916 --> 00:18:17,483
'Cause that's what babies do, son.

409
00:18:17,518 --> 00:18:20,119
They sleep.

410
00:18:20,154 --> 00:18:22,821
But you can't afford to do that.

411
00:18:22,890 --> 00:18:24,957
You see, as a patriarch of the family,

412
00:18:25,026 --> 00:18:26,792
you're responsible for

413
00:18:26,827 --> 00:18:31,130
teaching your young ones how
to survive in this cold world.

414
00:18:31,198 --> 00:18:32,564
Jamal don't understand that.

415
00:18:32,633 --> 00:18:33,832
He thinks it's all

416
00:18:33,901 --> 00:18:36,268
Kumbaya and love, but he's wrong.

417
00:18:39,073 --> 00:18:40,673
It's kill or be killed.

418
00:18:40,775 --> 00:18:41,840
Eat or be eaten.

419
00:18:41,876 --> 00:18:43,142
Look, I know you're trying

420
00:18:43,177 --> 00:18:44,576
to get me up under you

421
00:18:44,612 --> 00:18:46,245
like how you got Andre up under you.

422
00:18:48,182 --> 00:18:49,715
I want you to crush Gram

423
00:18:49,784 --> 00:18:51,483
because it means money for Empire,

424
00:18:51,519 --> 00:18:54,086
and Empire XStream needs that kind of

425
00:18:54,121 --> 00:18:55,854
fanfare and activity.

426
00:18:55,890 --> 00:18:58,190
But I want you to destroy him,

427
00:18:58,225 --> 00:18:59,825
'cause you're a Lyon,

428
00:18:59,894 --> 00:19:05,197
and I want the world to know that
you're not someone to be trifled with.

429
00:19:05,266 --> 00:19:09,334
I want this little girl to know
what kind of man her daddy is.

430
00:19:09,370 --> 00:19:11,503
Why is everybody
bringing Bella into this?

431
00:19:11,539 --> 00:19:14,173
Because, like you...

432
00:19:14,208 --> 00:19:17,676
she was born a Lyon.

433
00:19:17,712 --> 00:19:19,978
So she's born into this.

434
00:19:21,549 --> 00:19:23,716
See this book?

435
00:19:23,751 --> 00:19:25,050
It's written by Kahlil Gibran.

436
00:19:25,086 --> 00:19:26,719
It's called A Tear and a Smile.

437
00:19:26,754 --> 00:19:31,356
Inside it is the story
of "The Criminal."

438
00:19:31,425 --> 00:19:35,160
It tells of a young man...

439
00:19:35,262 --> 00:19:37,229
who was very kind of heart,

440
00:19:37,298 --> 00:19:40,833
and he depended on the
kindness of humanity

441
00:19:40,901 --> 00:19:42,768
in order for him to eat.

442
00:19:42,870 --> 00:19:46,572
But after some time, he found
himself starving to death.

443
00:19:46,607 --> 00:19:49,274
And right when you thought
he was about to die,

444
00:19:49,310 --> 00:19:51,577
he realized his own true nature.

445
00:19:51,645 --> 00:19:54,780
You see, Keem, the
nature of humanity isn't

446
00:19:54,815 --> 00:19:59,952
love and peaceful,
it's dark and beastly.

447
00:20:00,020 --> 00:20:03,255
And it'll turn the meek and
the humble into a criminal,

448
00:20:03,290 --> 00:20:06,125
and the sons of peace into...

449
00:20:06,193 --> 00:20:08,727
destroyers of men.

450
00:20:14,268 --> 00:20:17,669
He became a destroyer of men.

451
00:20:17,705 --> 00:20:19,471
Because he had to.

452
00:20:30,684 --> 00:20:33,752
♪ No matter what, you
know I'm here forever ♪

453
00:20:33,788 --> 00:20:36,488
♪ No matter what, I know
you're here forever ♪

454
00:20:36,524 --> 00:20:39,258
♪ We've been through the storm
and we're still together ♪

455
00:20:39,326 --> 00:20:41,960
♪ We're back together now as ♪

456
00:20:41,996 --> 00:20:45,197
♪ One... ♪

457
00:20:45,232 --> 00:20:47,533
♪ It's you and me over everything ♪

458
00:20:47,568 --> 00:20:50,669
♪ One... ♪

459
00:20:50,704 --> 00:20:53,205
♪ It's you and me over everything ♪

460
00:20:53,240 --> 00:20:56,642
♪ Leave it all behind,
no more wasting time ♪

461
00:20:56,677 --> 00:21:00,712
♪ Too focused on what's behind us now ♪

462
00:21:00,748 --> 00:21:04,449
♪ Made it through the
fight, finally got it right ♪

463
00:21:04,485 --> 00:21:07,653
♪ This is what I've been waiting for ♪

464
00:21:07,755 --> 00:21:12,090
♪ Practically my whole ♪

465
00:21:12,159 --> 00:21:16,862
♪ Life... ♪

466
00:21:16,897 --> 00:21:19,198
Brother.

467
00:21:27,374 --> 00:21:28,941
What is... ?

468
00:21:33,380 --> 00:21:35,514
♪ See, I always stayed
down for my bros ♪

469
00:21:35,583 --> 00:21:37,816
♪ Because loyalty is all I
know, down to ride for 'em ♪

470
00:21:37,918 --> 00:21:40,652
♪ And I won't lose control even
when we hit bumps in the road ♪

471
00:21:40,721 --> 00:21:42,354
♪ We get money on our own ♪

472
00:21:42,456 --> 00:21:44,189
♪ And treat it like baseball
and bring it back home ♪

473
00:21:44,291 --> 00:21:46,191
♪ No King Kong, but we
strong, so just like the bank ♪

474
00:21:46,293 --> 00:21:48,093
♪ Better leave us alone,
like we car shoppin' ♪

475
00:21:48,128 --> 00:21:50,362
- ♪ Swear we been through a whole lot ♪
- That's too far.

476
00:21:50,397 --> 00:21:52,297
♪ We swerved around all the roadblocks ♪

477
00:21:52,366 --> 00:21:53,665
♪ I put my family over everything ♪

478
00:21:53,701 --> 00:21:55,334
♪ Like hot sauce on the stove top ♪

479
00:21:55,369 --> 00:21:56,535
♪ Don't want me retaliate ♪

480
00:21:56,570 --> 00:21:58,904
♪ Don't mess with nobody related ♪

481
00:21:58,939 --> 00:22:00,639
♪ I roll for my bros,
you know, for my folks ♪

482
00:22:00,741 --> 00:22:02,174
♪ I'm going as hard as the pavement ♪

483
00:22:02,209 --> 00:22:04,076
♪ If they need anything,
then I got 'em ♪

484
00:22:04,111 --> 00:22:05,811
♪ Promise all of their
problems my problems ♪

485
00:22:05,880 --> 00:22:07,412
♪ I could always tell
one thing about 'em ♪

486
00:22:07,448 --> 00:22:09,381
♪ They hold me down even
when I'm at rock bottom ♪

487
00:22:09,416 --> 00:22:11,350
♪ Through it all, when I fall ♪

488
00:22:11,385 --> 00:22:13,051
♪ They pick me up like a phone call ♪

489
00:22:13,087 --> 00:22:14,620
♪ No pretend, all my kin ♪

490
00:22:14,655 --> 00:22:16,255
♪ We going for the
win like a long ball. ♪

491
00:22:17,491 --> 00:22:18,891
Okay.

492
00:22:18,993 --> 00:22:21,360
Um, one, can you not
do the stool like that?

493
00:22:21,395 --> 00:22:22,794
It makes you look pissed.

494
00:22:22,863 --> 00:22:25,063
And then also, you are
literally out of bounds.

495
00:22:25,099 --> 00:22:26,431
That's what all this tape is for.

496
00:22:26,467 --> 00:22:27,532
You're, like, in my balcony.

497
00:22:27,568 --> 00:22:30,569
Yo, this whole performance is too soft.

498
00:22:30,604 --> 00:22:32,437
It needs to command respect, Mal.

499
00:22:32,506 --> 00:22:34,406
Yo, why you sounding like Lucious now?

500
00:22:34,475 --> 00:22:36,575
Hakeem, our performance
is tomorrow, okay?

501
00:22:36,610 --> 00:22:39,244
They're rearranging my entire
apartment, and we have a song.

502
00:22:39,280 --> 00:22:41,280
- A dope song.
- It is dope, but this verse,

503
00:22:41,315 --> 00:22:43,548
I need to use to clap back to my haters.

504
00:22:43,617 --> 00:22:44,716
No, you should not.

505
00:22:44,752 --> 00:22:46,451
You know what, you're literally

506
00:22:46,487 --> 00:22:48,520
gonna stand your whole career
doing clap-back records.

507
00:22:48,589 --> 00:22:49,621
That's fine, and I don't care,

508
00:22:49,690 --> 00:22:51,123
but do it on someone else's track,

509
00:22:51,158 --> 00:22:52,958
'cause you're not gonna
put that B.S. on mine.

510
00:22:52,993 --> 00:22:54,393
We got terms and conditions?

511
00:22:54,461 --> 00:22:55,994
If you had enough followers,

512
00:22:56,030 --> 00:22:58,764
you'd be doing this on your
own channel, not Empire XStream.

513
00:22:58,799 --> 00:23:00,966
You know what, bro, you
about to piss me off.

514
00:23:01,001 --> 00:23:03,735
Bro, you're the one
that needs this, not me.

515
00:23:03,771 --> 00:23:06,772
You're the one that's
losing his fans, not me.

516
00:23:06,807 --> 00:23:09,041
Now, if it's gonna be
terms and conditions,

517
00:23:09,109 --> 00:23:11,343
just think about it... it's mine.

518
00:23:11,378 --> 00:23:12,811
'Cause everybody knows

519
00:23:12,846 --> 00:23:14,546
this concert is life or death for you.

520
00:23:15,849 --> 00:23:17,582
Just think about it.

521
00:23:28,568 --> 00:23:30,134
Arms up.

522
00:23:30,170 --> 00:23:33,037
Hey, come on, man.
Hey, if I was packing,

523
00:23:33,073 --> 00:23:35,139
I would have violated
the terms of the sit-down.

524
00:23:35,175 --> 00:23:36,274
This is a violation.

525
00:23:36,342 --> 00:23:38,076
If I wanted to violate you,

526
00:23:38,111 --> 00:23:40,878
Shine, you'd be getting
patted down with some bullets.

527
00:23:40,914 --> 00:23:42,447
Yeah. Is that right?

528
00:23:42,549 --> 00:23:43,815
Well, I got four shooters outside

529
00:23:43,850 --> 00:23:44,916
that say you won't.

530
00:23:44,951 --> 00:23:46,317
No, you got three.

531
00:23:46,352 --> 00:23:48,553
One stayed back at a five-star hotel,

532
00:23:48,588 --> 00:23:52,490
where he's getting some room
service sent up by me right now.

533
00:23:52,525 --> 00:23:54,992
And if you like, I can
send your boys outside

534
00:23:55,028 --> 00:23:56,394
a snack, too.

535
00:23:56,429 --> 00:23:58,629
Don't forget I do this, Shine.

536
00:23:58,665 --> 00:24:00,498
No, you don't do this, Lucious.

537
00:24:00,533 --> 00:24:01,766
I do this.

538
00:24:01,868 --> 00:24:03,801
You ain't did this for years.

539
00:24:03,837 --> 00:24:06,237
You industry. And I'm
still in the streets.

540
00:24:06,272 --> 00:24:07,939
And if I got to blow somebody up,

541
00:24:07,974 --> 00:24:09,740
I don't care if I die with him.

542
00:24:09,809 --> 00:24:11,909
But you already know this.

543
00:24:11,945 --> 00:24:13,578
Look, maybe we got off

544
00:24:13,613 --> 00:24:15,413
on the wrong foot, huh?

545
00:24:15,448 --> 00:24:17,348
You want a drink or something, man?

546
00:24:17,383 --> 00:24:18,749
No, I'm straight.

547
00:24:18,785 --> 00:24:20,618
'Cause we can talk tough all night.

548
00:24:20,720 --> 00:24:24,822
But last time I checked, we had
something real good going with Nessa.

549
00:24:24,924 --> 00:24:26,958
Yeah, I thought so, too.

550
00:24:26,993 --> 00:24:28,993
That's until you and your son
tried to divide and conquer.

551
00:24:29,028 --> 00:24:30,261
You came at us first, man.

552
00:24:30,363 --> 00:24:31,629
What is this?

553
00:24:31,664 --> 00:24:34,532
What are we doing?

554
00:24:34,567 --> 00:24:36,901
Come on, Lucious, it's me, bro.

555
00:24:37,003 --> 00:24:38,903
I could have buried you a long time ago

556
00:24:39,005 --> 00:24:40,805
with any one of them bodies you got.

557
00:24:40,840 --> 00:24:42,640
You forget Camden?

558
00:24:42,675 --> 00:24:43,975
Hold on, man.

559
00:24:44,077 --> 00:24:45,877
It's me you're talking to.

560
00:24:45,912 --> 00:24:47,044
Calling me "bro,"

561
00:24:47,080 --> 00:24:48,679
and you're gonna bring
something like that up?

562
00:24:48,715 --> 00:24:51,482
Which I don't know what the
hell you're talking about.

563
00:24:51,518 --> 00:24:53,184
But if I did,

564
00:24:53,253 --> 00:24:55,753
that would be violating code right here.

565
00:24:55,822 --> 00:24:57,221
Okay, you know what?

566
00:24:57,257 --> 00:24:58,856
This is a waste of my time.

567
00:24:58,892 --> 00:25:00,825
Come on, Nessa, let's move.

568
00:25:00,894 --> 00:25:03,694
Shine. Hey, I thought
I heard you in here,

569
00:25:03,730 --> 00:25:05,830
waking up my baby.

570
00:25:05,865 --> 00:25:08,733
Look, Anika, we in the
middle of something right now.

571
00:25:08,768 --> 00:25:11,969
Oh, good. Did you tell him
about the idea that we discussed?

572
00:25:12,071 --> 00:25:13,471
My husband,

573
00:25:13,506 --> 00:25:15,239
just the other day, he had just said

574
00:25:15,275 --> 00:25:17,842
how much he really appreciates
having you around here.

575
00:25:17,877 --> 00:25:19,610
You know, putting your ear to Hakeem,

576
00:25:19,712 --> 00:25:21,045
bringing in Nessa.

577
00:25:21,114 --> 00:25:22,513
He even said that it was such a shame

578
00:25:22,549 --> 00:25:25,883
that your talent had been
slept on all this time, and...

579
00:25:25,919 --> 00:25:27,985
imagine what you could
do with your own imprint.

580
00:25:28,021 --> 00:25:29,854
Right, babe?

581
00:25:29,923 --> 00:25:32,056
But, you know, I mean,
if you ever need somebody

582
00:25:32,125 --> 00:25:34,158
to bounce anything off of, I'm here.

583
00:25:34,260 --> 00:25:36,160
Just let me know.

584
00:25:38,231 --> 00:25:40,198
Good to see you.

585
00:25:43,436 --> 00:25:46,170
Is that what you're offering, Lucious?

586
00:25:46,239 --> 00:25:48,072
My own imprint?

587
00:25:48,107 --> 00:25:49,941
That's what I was trying to get to

588
00:25:49,976 --> 00:25:54,245
when you came charging in like
King Kong or something, man.

589
00:25:54,280 --> 00:25:56,013
Is Nessa part of that deal?

590
00:25:56,049 --> 00:26:00,017
Look, Nessa's under a different
contract with Empire, but...

591
00:26:00,053 --> 00:26:02,019
we can cross-pollinate, man.

592
00:26:02,055 --> 00:26:04,322
What about Freda Gatz?

593
00:26:04,424 --> 00:26:06,023
I heard she out.

594
00:26:06,092 --> 00:26:07,692
I hear she's dope.

595
00:26:11,164 --> 00:26:15,800
Hey, if Freda gets it done
for you, she's all yours, bro.

596
00:26:15,835 --> 00:26:18,536
Freda's the one, Shine.

597
00:26:18,571 --> 00:26:21,138
And this could be a good deal for you.

598
00:26:21,174 --> 00:26:23,040
Oh, for me, huh?

599
00:26:23,076 --> 00:26:25,443
For us, Shine.

600
00:26:27,447 --> 00:26:29,313
We got a deal.

601
00:26:30,617 --> 00:26:33,551
Welcome to the Empire, baby.

602
00:26:37,357 --> 00:26:39,423
Hey, you okay? I barely got through,

603
00:26:39,459 --> 00:26:42,960
uh, last two meetings.

604
00:26:42,996 --> 00:26:45,329
You been talking to
my probation officer?

605
00:26:45,365 --> 00:26:47,665
Say what? No.

606
00:26:47,700 --> 00:26:49,800
Why would I do that?

607
00:26:49,836 --> 00:26:52,270
So, it's a total coincidence
that after I tell you

608
00:26:52,372 --> 00:26:54,805
I'm on supervised release,

609
00:26:54,907 --> 00:26:57,508
my P.O. starts acting strict with me.

610
00:26:57,543 --> 00:26:59,777
No, I don't know nothing
about that. It's not me.

611
00:26:59,812 --> 00:27:02,313
Hmm. Then it must be because
you're running for mayor

612
00:27:02,348 --> 00:27:04,148
and you want to keep me in check.

613
00:27:04,183 --> 00:27:06,817
Oh, uh, okay, look,

614
00:27:06,853 --> 00:27:09,854
I don't make a habit of
keeping women in check.

615
00:27:09,889 --> 00:27:12,690
You must've got me confused
with your ex-husband.

616
00:27:12,725 --> 00:27:15,059
Leave Lucious out of this, man.

617
00:27:15,128 --> 00:27:16,594
Well, how can I?

618
00:27:16,629 --> 00:27:17,762
He's making sure

619
00:27:17,797 --> 00:27:20,064
he's very much a part of this.

620
00:27:20,166 --> 00:27:22,333
And what the hell is that
supposed to mean, Angelo?

621
00:27:22,368 --> 00:27:25,036
Cookie, look, I'm feeling you.
Okay, I know you know this.

622
00:27:25,071 --> 00:27:26,771
But you and Lucious,

623
00:27:26,806 --> 00:27:29,240
y'all got some unresolved
issues you need to take care of.

624
00:27:29,342 --> 00:27:33,010
My only issue is being
told what issues I have.

625
00:27:33,046 --> 00:27:34,645
See, Angelo,

626
00:27:34,681 --> 00:27:36,714
- you don't know me like that.
- I don't. How can I?

627
00:27:36,749 --> 00:27:38,282
You don't let me. Every time I try

628
00:27:38,318 --> 00:27:40,017
to get close to you, you put a wall up.

629
00:27:40,086 --> 00:27:41,852
- Aw, man...
- See? Look, there you go.

630
00:27:41,921 --> 00:27:43,154
- I can't! What?
- Okay.

631
00:27:43,189 --> 00:27:44,689
Uh, let's just cut this night short,

632
00:27:44,757 --> 00:27:47,491
all right, 'cause we're both
getting reckless in the mouth...

633
00:27:47,593 --> 00:27:49,193
- Yeah.
- ... and one of us is gonna say something

634
00:27:49,262 --> 00:27:50,461
that we're gonna regret.

635
00:27:50,496 --> 00:27:51,696
Already did that.

636
00:27:53,333 --> 00:27:54,865
Good night, Cookie.

637
00:27:54,901 --> 00:27:56,434
Yeah, well, good night.

638
00:27:58,705 --> 00:28:00,604
- Thank you.
- Good luck.

639
00:28:12,118 --> 00:28:14,518
♪ Where there is smoke ♪

640
00:28:14,554 --> 00:28:17,221
♪ There is a fire ♪

641
00:28:17,256 --> 00:28:19,123
♪ Burnin' my heart ♪

642
00:28:19,225 --> 00:28:21,492
♪ Oh ♪

643
00:28:21,527 --> 00:28:23,861
♪ If they only know ♪

644
00:28:23,896 --> 00:28:26,063
♪ You're my desire ♪

645
00:28:26,099 --> 00:28:30,501
♪ The world would put an end to us ♪

646
00:28:30,536 --> 00:28:32,336
♪ I'll ride in the night ♪

647
00:28:32,438 --> 00:28:35,106
♪ On the back of your bike ♪

648
00:28:35,141 --> 00:28:39,510
♪ With my hands, my hands to the sky ♪

649
00:28:39,612 --> 00:28:41,545
♪ So fast we could fly ♪

650
00:28:41,581 --> 00:28:43,514
♪ Let's leave it behind... ♪

651
00:28:43,616 --> 00:28:44,915
Okay, fine. You're right, that's hot.

652
00:28:44,984 --> 00:28:46,050
I know.

653
00:28:46,119 --> 00:28:47,585
Yet you still disobeyed a direct order,

654
00:28:47,653 --> 00:28:48,953
and you lied to Tiana.

655
00:28:48,988 --> 00:28:50,421
This ain't Chutes and Ladders.

656
00:28:50,456 --> 00:28:52,256
It's the music business.

657
00:28:52,291 --> 00:28:55,793
I thought you people understood
what the word "business" meant.

658
00:28:55,828 --> 00:28:57,762
You know, Cookie is going to be pissed.

659
00:28:57,864 --> 00:29:00,731
I know. That's why I wanted
you to listen to the song first.

660
00:29:00,767 --> 00:29:02,733
You can help me convince
Cookie that this song is a hit.

661
00:29:02,802 --> 00:29:04,935
- I don't know that it is a hit.
- Yes, you do!

662
00:29:05,004 --> 00:29:06,604
The song is dope. Listen to it.

663
00:29:06,639 --> 00:29:09,306
More importantly, it's
what the artist wants.

664
00:29:09,342 --> 00:29:11,308
All we have to do is let
Cookie hear it tomorrow.

665
00:29:11,344 --> 00:29:13,778
She'll love it, and
all will be forgiven.

666
00:29:13,813 --> 00:29:15,446
Listen to her.

667
00:29:15,481 --> 00:29:18,048
♪ Under starlight ♪

668
00:29:18,117 --> 00:29:20,451
♪ So bright ♪

669
00:29:20,486 --> 00:29:22,753
♪ Fast life ♪

670
00:29:22,789 --> 00:29:25,055
♪ Tonight... ♪

671
00:29:26,592 --> 00:29:28,325
Damn, boy!

672
00:29:28,361 --> 00:29:30,594
I'm-a give you the number
to my cleaning lady,

673
00:29:30,630 --> 00:29:33,397
because this place
is disgusting, Hakeem.

674
00:29:33,499 --> 00:29:35,800
I should've known you
would have ran to Mom.

675
00:29:35,902 --> 00:29:37,435
So much for being a grown-up.

676
00:29:37,470 --> 00:29:38,803
Yeah, I played her the song.

677
00:29:38,871 --> 00:29:41,005
Yes, and it's fire, and you will do it

678
00:29:41,040 --> 00:29:43,407
the way you and Jamal
arranged it, end of story.

679
00:29:43,509 --> 00:29:45,176
How you gonna make me?

680
00:29:45,211 --> 00:29:47,411
- Why don't you stop acting like a baby.
- You the baby!

681
00:29:47,447 --> 00:29:49,413
You the baby, the dumb little
baby... that's what you do.

682
00:29:49,449 --> 00:29:50,581
And you the semi-bald-
headed-looking baby.

683
00:29:50,650 --> 00:29:52,917
Shut up!

684
00:29:52,952 --> 00:29:55,920
Now, what did I have, two
boys or two little girls?

685
00:29:55,955 --> 00:29:58,823
'Cause y'all sound like two sissies.

686
00:30:00,693 --> 00:30:03,761
Now, what did I tell y'all way
back at that investor showcase?

687
00:30:03,796 --> 00:30:06,997
Hmm? What y'all not gonna
do is come in between

688
00:30:07,033 --> 00:30:08,666
me and my money.

689
00:30:08,701 --> 00:30:10,768
Now, it's been too long
since you and your brother

690
00:30:10,870 --> 00:30:12,203
performed in front of the people.

691
00:30:12,238 --> 00:30:13,237
And that's what they want,

692
00:30:13,272 --> 00:30:14,538
and that's what we will give them.

693
00:30:14,574 --> 00:30:16,340
Y'all just trying to drag me

694
00:30:16,375 --> 00:30:18,209
into a fight y'all are
having with Lucious.

695
00:30:18,244 --> 00:30:19,810
Get your narrow ass back up here, boy.

696
00:30:19,879 --> 00:30:21,479
Don't you ever walk away from me.

697
00:30:24,584 --> 00:30:27,017
I'm trying to stop one son

698
00:30:27,053 --> 00:30:29,687
from clapping back at an artist
that's not even on our label.

699
00:30:29,789 --> 00:30:30,554
Mm-hmm.

700
00:30:30,590 --> 00:30:32,056
Oh. And I'm only trying

701
00:30:32,091 --> 00:30:34,391
to help my other son
get back to performing

702
00:30:34,427 --> 00:30:36,160
in front of his fans before they forget

703
00:30:36,229 --> 00:30:38,162
how much they love his stupid ass.

704
00:30:38,264 --> 00:30:40,030
Mm-hmm.

705
00:30:40,132 --> 00:30:41,765
If you are afraid

706
00:30:41,834 --> 00:30:45,236
of getting on the wrong
side of your daddy...

707
00:30:45,271 --> 00:30:48,305
you don't want to get on
the wrong side of your mama.

708
00:30:48,341 --> 00:30:49,607
You feel me?

709
00:30:50,710 --> 00:30:53,210
I said, do you feel me?

710
00:30:53,279 --> 00:30:54,778
Yeah, I feel you.

711
00:30:55,882 --> 00:30:57,548
Good. Come here.

712
00:30:57,617 --> 00:30:58,782
Mmm.

713
00:31:01,587 --> 00:31:03,020
Hey, Ma...

714
00:31:03,055 --> 00:31:04,622
Clean this damn place up.

715
00:31:04,724 --> 00:31:06,824
Smelling like ass in here!

716
00:31:06,893 --> 00:31:08,926
Next time, take your shoes
off in my house, please.

717
00:31:08,961 --> 00:31:10,961
- Shut up, Hakeem.
- Boy, you better clean this place up before

718
00:31:11,030 --> 00:31:13,330
I throw an acid bomb in
here. Nasty-ass pigsty.

719
00:31:17,004 --> 00:31:18,536
What's up, everybody?
It's your boy, Jamal Lyon.

720
00:31:18,639 --> 00:31:19,938
I want to say thank you
so much for tuning in.

721
00:31:19,973 --> 00:31:21,606
We are all the way
live on Empire XStream.

722
00:31:21,642 --> 00:31:22,707
That's my baby brother, Hakeem.

723
00:31:22,743 --> 00:31:25,977
We are here truly for love and light.

724
00:31:26,013 --> 00:31:28,580
So for all of y'all, this is for you.

725
00:31:28,682 --> 00:31:30,849
♪ Like the water to the fire ♪

726
00:31:30,884 --> 00:31:34,552
♪ We gonna find a way
to make it all right ♪

727
00:31:34,655 --> 00:31:36,554
♪ No looking in the rearview ♪

728
00:31:36,623 --> 00:31:39,824
♪ The front window shows
that our future's bright ♪

729
00:31:39,860 --> 00:31:42,193
♪ Together we stand, divided we fall ♪

730
00:31:42,229 --> 00:31:45,330
♪ Building up the bridge and
we're tearing down the walls ♪

731
00:31:45,365 --> 00:31:47,832
♪ See, we done been
through the worse ♪

732
00:31:47,868 --> 00:31:50,468
♪ Love conquers all
even if the truth hurts ♪

733
00:31:50,570 --> 00:31:54,673
♪ If... we don't ♪

734
00:31:54,708 --> 00:31:56,508
♪ Stand for something ♪

735
00:31:56,543 --> 00:32:00,345
♪ Then we'll fall for anything ♪

736
00:32:00,414 --> 00:32:04,082
♪ Blood is so much thicker than... ♪

737
00:32:04,151 --> 00:32:07,786
♪ Water ♪

738
00:32:07,821 --> 00:32:10,622
♪ Like a prince is
proud to say he's king ♪

739
00:32:10,691 --> 00:32:13,558
♪ I'm proud to say it's
us over everything ♪

740
00:32:13,593 --> 00:32:17,295
♪ No matter what, you
know I'm here forever ♪

741
00:32:17,331 --> 00:32:20,065
♪ No matter what, I know
you're here forever ♪

742
00:32:20,100 --> 00:32:23,134
♪ We've been through the storm
and we're still together ♪

743
00:32:23,170 --> 00:32:25,337
♪ We're back together now as ♪

744
00:32:25,405 --> 00:32:28,373
♪ One... ♪

745
00:32:28,475 --> 00:32:31,009
♪ It's you and me over everything... ♪

746
00:32:31,044 --> 00:32:33,778
Looks like my baby Jamal is back.

747
00:32:33,847 --> 00:32:35,714
Anybody can perform in the shower

748
00:32:35,749 --> 00:32:37,382
or in the middle of
his damn living room.

749
00:32:37,451 --> 00:32:38,516
Look at this.

750
00:32:38,618 --> 00:32:39,851
What are those, the users?

751
00:32:39,886 --> 00:32:41,453
Looks like the numbers
are staying steady.

752
00:32:41,521 --> 00:32:42,988
Yeah, but they need to go up.

753
00:32:43,056 --> 00:32:44,856
Hakeem's audience ain't even tuning in

754
00:32:44,891 --> 00:32:47,492
because they not here
for this Kumbaya crap.

755
00:32:47,561 --> 00:32:49,094
We need some fire in here.

756
00:32:49,129 --> 00:32:52,063
Okay, whatever, Lucious.
Get away from me.

757
00:32:52,132 --> 00:32:53,965
Okay.

758
00:32:56,937 --> 00:32:58,837
What happened to Gram, man?

759
00:32:58,905 --> 00:33:01,139
Lyons don't run from
beef. We crush that.

760
00:33:01,208 --> 00:33:03,108
I don't need to be beefing
over a chick who's my ex.

761
00:33:03,143 --> 00:33:04,609
Especially when I'm
about to have a new one.

762
00:33:04,644 --> 00:33:05,810
What?

763
00:33:05,879 --> 00:33:07,012
Nessa?

764
00:33:07,080 --> 00:33:08,780
Yeah. We been talking for a minute.

765
00:33:08,815 --> 00:33:10,415
I'm-a lock it down today.

766
00:33:10,450 --> 00:33:12,784
Well, I hate to be the
one to break it to you,

767
00:33:12,819 --> 00:33:15,553
but your brother
already got that on lock.

768
00:33:15,589 --> 00:33:17,522
My brother?

769
00:33:17,591 --> 00:33:19,257
Not Jamal.

770
00:33:19,292 --> 00:33:20,859
Dre.

771
00:33:20,961 --> 00:33:22,327
Nah, Andre wouldn't do that.

772
00:33:27,968 --> 00:33:29,334
Man, you better get your girl back.

773
00:33:30,837 --> 00:33:33,238
Come on, brother.

774
00:33:47,654 --> 00:33:49,687
♪ See, I always stayed
down for my bros ♪

775
00:33:49,756 --> 00:33:51,556
♪ Staying loyal should be how it goes ♪

776
00:33:51,591 --> 00:33:53,458
♪ I was ridin' with 'em,
but then we lost control ♪

777
00:33:53,493 --> 00:33:55,060
♪ When we hit some bumps in the road ♪

778
00:33:55,095 --> 00:33:56,928
♪ Ask Andre, bet he knows ♪

779
00:33:56,963 --> 00:33:58,663
♪ He was keeping secrets on the low ♪

780
00:33:58,698 --> 00:34:00,465
♪ All them lies that you told ♪

781
00:34:00,500 --> 00:34:01,733
♪ Thought you kept it
real, but you don't ♪

782
00:34:01,768 --> 00:34:02,801
♪ I knew the whole time ♪

783
00:34:02,836 --> 00:34:04,402
♪ That you was a fake one ♪

784
00:34:04,504 --> 00:34:06,604
♪ And then Jamal don't
want to say nothin' ♪

785
00:34:06,640 --> 00:34:07,839
♪ Just wanna act like a straight punk ♪

786
00:34:07,874 --> 00:34:09,641
♪ Plus Andre sick ♪

787
00:34:09,676 --> 00:34:11,810
♪ Hold up, yeah, I told 'em
that I'll never let you ♪

788
00:34:11,845 --> 00:34:13,645
♪ Lean on my shoulder, you know Nessa ♪

789
00:34:13,713 --> 00:34:15,146
♪ Soon as I left her,
I heard you had her ♪

790
00:34:15,182 --> 00:34:17,315
♪ Come and sleepin' over, then Jamal ♪

791
00:34:17,350 --> 00:34:20,085
♪ Kept it quiet, what you
thought I wouldn't realize it? ♪

792
00:34:20,120 --> 00:34:21,586
Don't nobody care about
them damn numbers, Lucious.

793
00:34:21,655 --> 00:34:23,488
♪ And if you got a
problem, see about it ♪

794
00:34:23,523 --> 00:34:25,490
♪ Too busy kissing your boyfriend ♪

795
00:34:25,525 --> 00:34:27,125
♪ You been dressing like a
girl since you were ten... ♪

796
00:34:27,160 --> 00:34:28,993
Oh, no, no, no! No!

797
00:34:29,029 --> 00:34:31,463
This is live, boy. Whatever he's mad at,

798
00:34:31,498 --> 00:34:33,465
let him be mad, or it's
gonna get worse, okay?

799
00:34:33,500 --> 00:34:34,866
♪ I don't rock with
either one of you at all ♪

800
00:34:34,935 --> 00:34:36,267
♪ Sick, boy, yeah, you sick, boy ♪

801
00:34:36,303 --> 00:34:38,169
♪ Lucious, let me know
you think you slick, boy ♪

802
00:34:38,205 --> 00:34:40,105
♪ You a has-been and you been gay ♪

803
00:34:40,140 --> 00:34:41,973
♪ And you both weak like a Wednesday ♪

804
00:34:42,042 --> 00:34:43,708
♪ Cash'll turn you into a trick for it ♪

805
00:34:43,743 --> 00:34:45,743
♪ You'll probably even
sleep with a chick for it. ♪

806
00:34:48,882 --> 00:34:50,782
- Is he out his damn mind?
- No, no, no...

807
00:34:50,817 --> 00:34:54,185
What the hell was that, Hakeem?!
What the hell was that about?!

808
00:34:54,254 --> 00:34:55,487
You got us doing this
Mickey Mouse performance

809
00:34:55,522 --> 00:34:56,888
about brotherhood when you know

810
00:34:56,923 --> 00:34:58,857
Andre's giant ass crushing my girl!

811
00:34:58,892 --> 00:35:00,258
What the hell are you talking about?!

812
00:35:00,327 --> 00:35:01,626
Andre and Nessa!

813
00:35:01,695 --> 00:35:03,094
- That's what I'm talking about!
- Hakeem,

814
00:35:03,196 --> 00:35:04,662
we could have talked about
this at a different time.

815
00:35:04,698 --> 00:35:06,131
You're trying to deny it?

816
00:35:06,166 --> 00:35:07,866
Calm down, okay? I didn't
even know you were into Nessa.

817
00:35:07,901 --> 00:35:09,334
- Of course you knew!
- I didn't know nothing.

818
00:35:09,402 --> 00:35:10,969
Wait, wait, wait, what are y'all doing?!

819
00:35:11,037 --> 00:35:13,505
- No, no, no, no, no, no! No, no!
- I don't give a damn

820
00:35:13,573 --> 00:35:14,806
what you are pissed off about.

821
00:35:14,841 --> 00:35:16,107
You took it to another
level, and I want to know why!

822
00:35:16,143 --> 00:35:18,977
Wack-ass performance was
your idea in the first place!

823
00:35:19,012 --> 00:35:22,013
I shouldn't have never listened to you.

824
00:35:22,048 --> 00:35:23,515
You just used me to do a performance

825
00:35:23,550 --> 00:35:25,216
'cause you can't get out
there and do it yourself!

826
00:35:25,252 --> 00:35:27,852
Fake-ass wannabe MC!
I will kill you right...

827
00:35:27,888 --> 00:35:30,321
Shut your big ass up, Frankenstein!

828
00:35:30,390 --> 00:35:31,489
Come on! Come on!

829
00:35:31,525 --> 00:35:32,524
Keep rolling! Keep filming!

830
00:35:32,559 --> 00:35:34,125
No, stop!

831
00:35:34,227 --> 00:35:35,326
Turn it off!

832
00:35:35,428 --> 00:35:36,728
What the hell is wrong with you?!

833
00:35:36,763 --> 00:35:38,163
Somebody plug this back in!

834
00:35:38,198 --> 00:35:40,031
You cannot just claim me,
Hakeem... nothing happened!

835
00:35:40,066 --> 00:35:42,967
We didn't do that duet together?
We didn't vibe together?

836
00:35:43,036 --> 00:35:45,503
- Oh my goodness, a vibe, a vibe!
- Shut up!

837
00:35:45,572 --> 00:35:47,005
Y'all, it's okay, don't worry about it,

838
00:35:47,107 --> 00:35:48,907
'cause Hakeem Lyon, he was just vibin'

839
00:35:48,942 --> 00:35:50,909
to some female, so it's all good.

840
00:35:50,944 --> 00:35:52,777
Turn these cameras off!
This is over! A wrap!

841
00:35:52,812 --> 00:35:54,045
Everybody out!

842
00:35:54,080 --> 00:35:55,513
Petty-ass dumb bitch!

843
00:35:55,582 --> 00:35:57,215
Shut your Frank Ocean wannabe-ass up!

844
00:35:57,250 --> 00:35:58,883
- You shut your fake-ass wannabe...
- Turn these cameras off!

845
00:36:01,937 --> 00:36:04,003
Hello, Becky. Come in. Have a seat.

846
00:36:04,039 --> 00:36:06,773
So, uh, Tiana...

847
00:36:06,875 --> 00:36:08,675
unfortunately, there
was a miscommunication

848
00:36:08,710 --> 00:36:10,510
in your lead song, so...

849
00:36:10,545 --> 00:36:14,047
we're gonna have to postpone
the release of your album.

850
00:36:14,082 --> 00:36:16,216
No... What do you mean,
a miscommunication?

851
00:36:16,251 --> 00:36:19,319
Well, Xavier told me that
you recorded "Starlight"...

852
00:36:19,387 --> 00:36:21,154
which that is lightweight snitchin',

853
00:36:21,189 --> 00:36:22,856
but we gonna deal with that later.

854
00:36:22,891 --> 00:36:25,558
I did not sign off on that song.

855
00:36:25,660 --> 00:36:27,627
So now we got to put
you back in the studio

856
00:36:27,696 --> 00:36:29,229
to record "Me," the song I wanted.

857
00:36:30,365 --> 00:36:32,298
So... you lied to me?

858
00:36:32,400 --> 00:36:33,933
No. I believed in the song.

859
00:36:33,969 --> 00:36:35,168
I can't work with no liars, Cookie.

860
00:36:35,203 --> 00:36:36,503
- I want her off my team.
- What?

861
00:36:36,538 --> 00:36:37,737
Are you serious?

862
00:36:37,772 --> 00:36:39,205
I'm the only one around
here fighting for you.

863
00:36:39,241 --> 00:36:40,773
Yeah, and look where it got me.

864
00:36:40,809 --> 00:36:44,711
T... Cookie, she's just mad right now.

865
00:36:44,746 --> 00:36:46,179
Please don't take me off her team.

866
00:36:46,248 --> 00:36:47,413
You said it, Becky.

867
00:36:47,516 --> 00:36:49,549
We got to give the artist
what they want. Now...

868
00:36:49,584 --> 00:36:52,519
I can try and talk to her and
see if I can change her mind,

869
00:36:52,621 --> 00:36:54,187
but... you did this.

870
00:36:54,256 --> 00:36:55,855
You need to learn how to listen.

871
00:37:00,262 --> 00:37:02,328
What happened? I thought
you liked the song.

872
00:37:02,397 --> 00:37:03,696
I did.

873
00:37:03,732 --> 00:37:05,865
So why didn't you have my back?

874
00:37:06,935 --> 00:37:08,902
It's just business.

875
00:37:16,311 --> 00:37:18,578
There she is. Cookie,

876
00:37:18,613 --> 00:37:20,580
I'd like to introduce you
to a good friend of mine,

877
00:37:20,649 --> 00:37:21,781
Gus Rodriguez.

878
00:37:21,816 --> 00:37:23,283
You know Ms. Davis.

879
00:37:23,318 --> 00:37:24,817
Oh, so...

880
00:37:24,853 --> 00:37:26,452
it's like this now, huh, Angelo?

881
00:37:26,488 --> 00:37:28,321
I'm here to apologize, Ms. Lyon.

882
00:37:28,356 --> 00:37:30,924
Ms. Lyon, Officer Davis
has been reprimanded

883
00:37:30,959 --> 00:37:32,959
for her overzealous behavior.

884
00:37:32,994 --> 00:37:34,460
She hopes that that will be sufficient,

885
00:37:34,496 --> 00:37:36,195
and you won't choose
to file a complaint.

886
00:37:36,298 --> 00:37:37,730
I'm not.

887
00:37:38,934 --> 00:37:41,167
Uh, what's going on here?

888
00:37:41,202 --> 00:37:42,569
It seems that we got

889
00:37:42,604 --> 00:37:44,737
some wrong information about
an ongoing investigation

890
00:37:44,773 --> 00:37:47,140
that has nothing to do with you.

891
00:37:47,242 --> 00:37:50,109
So who you saying told her
to put the squeeze on me?

892
00:37:50,145 --> 00:37:52,512
I'm not at liberty to say, but
you've been a model offender,

893
00:37:52,547 --> 00:37:55,582
and my office sees no reason
to extend your restrictions.

894
00:37:55,617 --> 00:37:57,584
I've known my man here
since we balled at Columbia.

895
00:37:57,619 --> 00:37:59,752
He says you're good
people; you're good with me.

896
00:37:59,788 --> 00:38:01,688
Okay. I'll wait for you out front.

897
00:38:01,723 --> 00:38:02,922
All right, man, thanks.

898
00:38:02,958 --> 00:38:04,891
I'll see you in three months, Hollo...

899
00:38:04,960 --> 00:38:06,192
Ms. Lyon.

900
00:38:06,227 --> 00:38:07,660
Give the kids my love, Sharlene.

901
00:38:07,696 --> 00:38:09,963
So you went to a lot
of trouble for me, huh?

902
00:38:10,065 --> 00:38:11,764
I saw your boys tonight

903
00:38:11,833 --> 00:38:14,767
on Empire XStream, and, uh...

904
00:38:14,803 --> 00:38:17,036
I realized something
about you and your family.

905
00:38:17,105 --> 00:38:19,272
Yeah, I'm sure the whole world did.

906
00:38:19,307 --> 00:38:22,609
Well, I realized that... fighting

907
00:38:22,677 --> 00:38:24,377
is your family's way of life.

908
00:38:24,412 --> 00:38:26,613
It's... it's like it's in your blood.

909
00:38:26,648 --> 00:38:29,015
But somehow, y'all got
the idea that I'm...

910
00:38:29,050 --> 00:38:30,650
I'm not a fighter.

911
00:38:30,685 --> 00:38:32,986
Look, I am not trying to
fight with you right now.

912
00:38:33,021 --> 00:38:34,988
Baby girl, I'm not talking about

913
00:38:35,023 --> 00:38:36,789
fighting with you...

914
00:38:36,825 --> 00:38:38,691
I'm talking about fighting for you.

915
00:38:40,829 --> 00:38:43,696
And if that means going
up against Lucious, well...

916
00:38:43,732 --> 00:38:45,365
then so be it.

917
00:38:48,503 --> 00:38:49,669
Hmm.

918
00:38:52,107 --> 00:38:53,973
You got me all the
way out in Brownsville.

919
00:38:54,009 --> 00:38:55,174
I hope you're ready to talk.

920
00:38:55,243 --> 00:38:56,743
Yeah, I'm ready to talk.

921
00:38:56,778 --> 00:38:59,178
You ready to be about that WITSEC life?

922
00:39:00,415 --> 00:39:02,849
WITSEC? You must be smoking.

923
00:39:02,917 --> 00:39:04,784
You ain't gonna be walking
around in the sunshine

924
00:39:04,886 --> 00:39:06,152
after giving me a body.

925
00:39:06,187 --> 00:39:07,487
Even you ain't that crazy, my G.

926
00:39:07,589 --> 00:39:08,855
What body?

927
00:39:08,957 --> 00:39:10,523
The one you and Lucious hid

928
00:39:10,558 --> 00:39:13,660
in a slab of concrete back in Camden.

929
00:39:13,695 --> 00:39:15,261
I don't know what you're talking about.

930
00:39:15,296 --> 00:39:16,629
You know what I'm talking about.

931
00:39:16,731 --> 00:39:18,731
Look, I ain't the one to
be playing with, Shine.

932
00:39:18,767 --> 00:39:20,600
I'm squeezing the Lyon
family on all sides.

933
00:39:20,635 --> 00:39:23,670
Got Cookie's P.O. to tighten
the leash on her, and I can

934
00:39:23,705 --> 00:39:25,471
turn that same heat
on you anytime I want.

935
00:39:25,540 --> 00:39:29,008
That don't sound like gratitude, Tariq.

936
00:39:29,044 --> 00:39:30,410
Especially when I'm about to make

937
00:39:30,445 --> 00:39:31,644
Christmas come early for you.

938
00:39:35,450 --> 00:39:36,649
Who's that?

939
00:39:36,718 --> 00:39:39,052
That's Freda Gatz.

940
00:39:39,087 --> 00:39:41,721
The rapper that shot
Jamal Lyon at the ASAs?

941
00:39:41,790 --> 00:39:43,723
Exactly.

942
00:39:46,661 --> 00:39:49,128
Do you know who her dad was?

943
00:39:49,164 --> 00:39:51,064
- Remember Frank Gathers?
- Of course I remember Frank.

944
00:39:51,132 --> 00:39:52,565
You, Lucious and Cookie,

945
00:39:52,634 --> 00:39:54,834
you used to run material
for him back in the day.

946
00:39:54,903 --> 00:39:56,235
Allegedly.

947
00:39:56,271 --> 00:39:58,204
More importantly, you know her father

948
00:39:58,239 --> 00:40:00,106
was locked up with Lucious at the BCC.

949
00:40:00,141 --> 00:40:02,809
You know, he got killed up there.

950
00:40:02,844 --> 00:40:07,080
Now, I can't tell if it was
a coincidence or... or what.

951
00:40:07,115 --> 00:40:08,981
I don't know.

952
00:40:09,017 --> 00:40:11,684
So you saying Lucious had
something to do with it?

953
00:40:11,753 --> 00:40:13,419
Nah, that's not what I'm saying.

954
00:40:13,455 --> 00:40:15,221
Actually, I ain't saying nothing.

955
00:40:15,256 --> 00:40:17,957
I'm just taking my dog for a
walk through the neighborhood.

956
00:40:26,668 --> 00:40:29,802
I know what you was up to in
that meeting with Shine today.

957
00:40:29,838 --> 00:40:31,971
I ain't mad at you, though.

958
00:40:32,006 --> 00:40:34,507
It was a good idea.

959
00:40:34,576 --> 00:40:36,442
Well, when it comes to good ideas,

960
00:40:36,478 --> 00:40:38,611
let's just say I learned from the best.

961
00:40:40,014 --> 00:40:42,381
Nah, I'm just glad I could help.

962
00:40:44,352 --> 00:40:48,955
I could continue being a help, you know.

963
00:40:49,057 --> 00:40:50,456
Shine's gonna need an A&R.

964
00:40:50,525 --> 00:40:52,959
Look at you.

965
00:40:53,027 --> 00:40:54,427
Trying to get something for yourself

966
00:40:54,462 --> 00:40:55,828
out of this whole thing.

967
00:40:55,897 --> 00:40:57,463
- I'm just saying.
- Yeah.

968
00:40:57,532 --> 00:40:59,232
I'll think about it, all right?

969
00:41:01,302 --> 00:41:03,669
Look, let me talk to
my boy for a minute.

970
00:41:03,772 --> 00:41:04,937
Okay.

971
00:41:09,811 --> 00:41:11,778
I'm-a place her right on your chest.

972
00:41:11,813 --> 00:41:13,813
She's so tiny, I think
I'm gonna break her.

973
00:41:13,882 --> 00:41:15,148
Nah, don't worry.

974
00:41:15,183 --> 00:41:17,717
Just trust yourself.

975
00:41:17,752 --> 00:41:19,418
Right there.

976
00:41:19,487 --> 00:41:22,622
Make sure her head is nice and relaxed.

977
00:41:22,724 --> 00:41:24,991
You were right, Dad.

978
00:41:25,059 --> 00:41:27,093
Yeah.

979
00:41:27,162 --> 00:41:29,462
I wasn't gonna let you
get punked like that.

980
00:41:29,531 --> 00:41:30,696
And if that means you got to

981
00:41:30,765 --> 00:41:32,198
go to war with your brothers, then...

982
00:41:32,300 --> 00:41:33,900
so be it.

983
00:41:33,935 --> 00:41:35,301
You were right about Jamal, too.

984
00:41:35,370 --> 00:41:36,335
Yeah, I know.

985
00:41:37,772 --> 00:41:39,205
So this means I don't have to

986
00:41:39,240 --> 00:41:40,706
play tug-of-war with you no more?

987
00:41:40,742 --> 00:41:42,675
I wasn't trying to do that.

988
00:41:44,345 --> 00:41:46,879
You want what's right for Bella, right?

989
00:41:46,915 --> 00:41:49,115
Want to set the world up for her.

990
00:41:49,217 --> 00:41:51,784
But I need to find
myself again, musically.

991
00:41:51,853 --> 00:41:54,353
But things are just so
tense with Shine right now.

992
00:41:54,389 --> 00:41:57,557
Ah, don't worry about
him. I took care of that.

993
00:41:57,592 --> 00:41:59,025
Look at her.

994
00:41:59,060 --> 00:42:00,593
Sound asleep in your arms.

995
00:42:02,530 --> 00:42:05,164
It's the first time she's
not screaming in my arms.

996
00:42:05,233 --> 00:42:06,365
Know why?

997
00:42:06,434 --> 00:42:09,535
You got your swagger back.

998
00:42:11,206 --> 00:42:12,371
Come on.

999
00:42:12,440 --> 00:42:14,674
Let's put her down over here.

1000
00:42:14,776 --> 00:42:16,409
When you swaddle a baby,

1001
00:42:16,444 --> 00:42:18,911
you want to bend down
the top of the corner

1002
00:42:18,980 --> 00:42:20,713
like you're making a nice "V."

1003
00:42:20,748 --> 00:42:23,216
Then you put her head,
the top of her head,

1004
00:42:23,251 --> 00:42:26,519
right there, right
there, at the top of that.

1005
00:42:26,621 --> 00:42:27,787
Okay. You got it.

1006
00:42:27,822 --> 00:42:30,523
She trusts you.

1007
00:42:30,558 --> 00:42:32,725
Yeah, support that neck.

1008
00:42:32,794 --> 00:42:34,026
- I got you.
- Oh...

1009
00:42:34,062 --> 00:42:35,461
Oh, little baby.

1010
00:42:36,497 --> 00:42:38,564
Oh, you got it,

1011
00:42:38,600 --> 00:42:39,932
you got it, you got it.

1012
00:42:40,001 --> 00:42:41,567
She's good, she's good.

1013
00:42:41,603 --> 00:42:42,869
All right.

1014
00:42:44,272 --> 00:42:46,305
Let's talk about this music of yours.

1015
00:42:46,341 --> 00:42:49,542
I have some thoughts about

1016
00:42:49,577 --> 00:42:51,377
who you should and
shouldn't be working with.

1017
00:42:51,412 --> 00:42:53,579
And, yeah, you should
do some songs with Shine,

1018
00:42:53,648 --> 00:42:55,715
but not all of 'em.

1019
00:42:55,850 --> 00:42:58,718
Maybe I'll produce you again.

1020
00:42:58,786 --> 00:43:02,021
Turn you into a destroyer of souls.

1021
00:43:04,500 --> 00:43:07,960
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