In the initially episode of Lee Daniel's tunes biz drama Empire, Lucious (Terrence Howard, Taraji P. Henson's Hustle and Flow counterpart) introduces his ex-spouse Loretha "Cookie" Lyons as the "heart and soul" of Empire Entertainment, the label she co-established ahead of finding shipped off to prison for 17 years just after using the slide for their mutual drug offenses so that he could make, very well, a musical empire.