Uh, Hakeem? Hooking up with the lead singer in your all female group? That is an Unsung episode waiting to happen, stupid.

Cookie

Oh and Jamal, one last thing, I wanted to tell you first before you hear it out here in these streets. Me, Andre and Hakeem, we're starting our own company.

Cookie

Jamal, you think you on top now? Our little Dynasty gonna crush your Empire.

Hakeem

Pop, wait a minute! Pop! Pop! For years you rejected Jamal because of who he is, now he's running the company. Hakeem, he slept with your fiancee. Apparently you want him back at Empire. Here I stand, contrite, remorseful, humble and yet you look at me like I'm some kind of mutant. Why do you hate me?

Andre

I'm not going back to Empire. I'm not working for Dad or Jamal punkass. I'm a be hip hop legendary in my own right.

Hakeem

Let me tell you something ho, if it weren't for women like me, bitches like you would spend a lifetime on your knees. Or underneath my twenty year old son.

Cookie [to Anika]

Hakeem needs to be recording new music or this ship is going to sink before it even leaves the port.

Andre [to Cookie]

Cookie: I need you to give Hakeem his album back.
Jamal: Why would I do that?
Cookie: Jamal you already won. You run the Empire. All Hakeem's got is his music.

Mimi: You know, what I'd really like to know is why do you want to depose Lucious?
Cookie: He's lost his way. And I need to get my company back before he destroys it. Or destroys my family. I'm saving it for my sons.

It's crazy how I can love your ass and hate you at the same moment.

Lucious [to Cookie]

Hi. Game over, bitches. Bye bye.

Lucious

Jamal: Bill Clinton is out there.
Cookie: Yeah, he needs to be if he wants his wife to get elected.

Empire Quotes

Cookie's coming home.

Cookie

I started selling drugs when I was 9 years old in Philadelphia. I did it to feed myself. But it was the music that played in my head that kept me alive when I thought I was going to get shot. And it was the melodies that I dreamt about that keep me warm when I was sleeping in the streets.

Lucious