BRUH!!!!
Last week we saw our favorite used to be/gonna be/wanna be couple, Cookie and Lucious, get their shaboink on and then get caught by the crafty Anika.
The weeks episode chronicles Cookie's transition to jail via flashbacks. Cookie was dressed like Mary J. Blige during the My Life Album and lets just gone and put it out there - Her hair was laid like Wilona Woods back then. She had to say goodbye to her babies and the scene was beyond heartbreaking.
Good ole low down Lucious was singing some song and telling her goodbye all in the same sentence but he could have cared less. The next scene shows Lucuous and Cookie the morning after they shaboinked and Cookie quickly let him know that until he got rid of evil angel Anika? He wasn't getting nothing else from her cookie jar.
SITTING IN THE STUDIO TRYIN TO GET TO YOU BABY:
Hakeem and Jamal head to the church to say a prayer for their shady father and chop it up about how to make Lucious happy. They promptly hit the studio and impress their parents so much so that the four of them are in the studio doing a catchy song and plan to release it as a legacy of some sorts. Andre is later seen watching the four of them and feeling left out like a wanna be praise team member who can't hold a proper tune in church.
Hakeem and Cookie end up getting into it at the studio and Lucious lets them know that they need to basically make up and things work for the family and company. Hakeem checks Cookie and tells her that he knows that she loves Jamal more than she loves any of her other sons. Cookie has a heartfelt conversation with him and lets him know that she doesn't love any of her kids any more than the other.
Later on Cookie and Lucious manage to get it on in the studio even after he promised Anika that he would marry her very soon. We bet Cookie and Lucious was up in that studio squatting like no tomorrow.
Anyhoo!!
LUNCH OR DINNER?:
There's a new character on the scene this week, Rylan, a documentarian who is shooting a special on the family. Rylan basically comes on to Jamal and asks Jamal out on date. Jamal warns him that he would probably do better not letting Lucious know he is gay. Rylan is not afraid of Lucious but we know he hasn't truly met the real Lucious. Jamal and Rylan go out on the date and before long he tells Jamal that he should just come out and be who he is. It gets him to thinking but something about Rylan rubs us the wrong way.
Is he hired to get Jamal off track?
DADDY'S LITTLE WICKED GIRL:
Anika informs Lucious that her father may be in trouble for helping him out concerning his ALS. She coldly lets him know that if her father goes down? She's taking everything down with her. She also lets him know that she knows that he slept with Cookie. Lucious looked like had gas for three weeks and he lied like the low down ceo that he is. We don't know WHY they mess with Cookie Lyons. They KNOW Cookie don't mind getting straight ratchet up in the offices of Empire.
Lucious is pretty dumb when it comes to Anika!!!
ANDRE AIN'T GOT NO MANNERS MAN:
Andre has his sights set on taking over his fathers company and entices his lovable wife Rhonda to seduce a female board member of Empire. Andre ain't nothing but a younger and shadier version of his father but something tells us he is a crazed man who hasn't been taking his meds and is ready to rumble with his entire family. Andre and Rhonda go to dinner with the possible female conquest and over dinner she makes a complete fool of herself and vomits at the table.
During the Empire board meeting Andre tries to pull a fast one on his father by trying to take over the company. They vote and even though Cookie gives her crazy son her vote aka love? Lucious says nay!!! Shocks Andre's wayward ass right back into reality and Lucious throws his some some SERIOUS Fade.
HAKEEM WANTS TO TAKE IT TO THE BRIDGE:
Camilla and Hakeem decide to make it official at the fancy white party being held by Empire Records. Camilla is playing Hakeem like a Loretta Lynn fiddle and low key tells him that he should be last on the potential hit song with Jamal. Hakeem goes to Cookie and asks her if he can be last on the song. She obliges and says she will get with Lucious about it.
LUCIOUS GONE HAVE TO CATCH THEM L'S :
Anika and Lucious arrive to the white party and he is dressed like a Donald Lawrence Community Choir glorified choir director complete with a spanking brand new white robe. Lucious lets Cookie know that he and Anika will be getting married next week and Cookie gives him the heave hoe and a quick go to hell moment. Lucious stepped up to Cookie at that party and treated her like the wanna be bestie that she is!!
Cookie congratulates Anika on her upcoming wedding and basically lets her know that her and Lucious had sex AGAIN even though he told her he was done with Cookie. Consider Anika SHOOK!!!
Poe Thang!!
OLD CAMILLA IS IN THE BUILDING:
Hakeem and Camilla arrive to the white party and Camilla introduces herself but Cookie chews her up and spits her out like a old southern grandmother in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Camilla snaps back at Cookie and tells her she's not scared of her in any fashion. Cookie recovers and set Camilla straight but letting her know that if she was in jail with Camilla back in the day?? She would have pimped her out herself.
WELL!!!
JAMAL GOT SOMETHING TO SAY:
Jamal performs his song and its a hit to the crowd but he puts his own spin on it by coming out to the room. Lucious was pissed like James Evans when Florida brought that bad meat from Borgan's Supermarket. The next morning Lucious arrives to Empire pissed off and he didn't crack a good morning or goodbye.
Lucious meets with Andre and Vernon and ask both of them where their loyalty lies. Vernon is excused and Lucious tells Andre that ever since Andre brought his white wife to the his house he knew he couldn't accept him.
Now say what now Lucious???
Lucious cuts Andre to shreds and tells him that he will never leave the company to him but to someone who is worthy enough. Andre is later sitting in the studio with a gun to his head playing russian roulette with his life.
Lucious is one self righteous CEO/father/boss/lover/murder and he is leaving a trail of destruction all around Empire Records. After Andre is dismissed and wounded by his father, Lucious heads over to Cookie's office and lets her know that their legacy album is cut due to Jamal coming out.
Dude needs to simply:
Via Flashbacks we spot Cookie in her jail cell serving time and missing her family. Cookie was humming her legacy song in that cell like Mahalia Jackson waiting her beignets at Cafe Dumonde.
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