ALEXANDRA ANDY ANGEL ARLENE AYANNA CARLOTTA COTTON DEE DEE_AND_GIRL DEREK DIRECTOR ELLIOT ENGINEER ENTOURAGE_MEMBER EVERYBODY FEMALE_VOICE GIRL GOON_1 GRACE GROUPIE JAHIL JAMAL JAVIER JAY JUVIE_GIRL KAREN MISS_BRUCE NOAH PEOPLE RACHEL REPORTER SECURITY_GUARD_1 SECURITY_GUARD_2 SHOP_ASSISTANT SIMONE STAR THERAPIST TV STAR Okay, so last time y’all saw Star JAY I just went up in that board meeting and got fired. They got a new head coming in. And she's a bad bitch. COTTON Hey, I gotta see my probation officer once a week, and then I gotta pay back Elliot the 20 stacks I stole. JAMAL Carlotta Brown, meet Ayanna Floyd, the president of y'all label. CARLOTTA My girls have been working really hard to. AYANNA Set up an appointment with my assistant. KAREN I like your shoes, baby. DEE Come up off them. SIMONE I ain't giving y'all nothing. DEE Yes, you is. ARLENE Hey, doll. It's Arlene. They know about those girls you set free. They're coming for you. JAVIER REPORTER It's a great day in Miami. Partly cloudy with low humidity. What a great day. TV JAVIER JAHIL JAVIER JAHIL Come on, brother. And you know what? I'm betting that maybe you had it smuggled here from Peru when you set up shop here in Miami. So, here's what I'm gonna do. I'm gonna give you three seconds to tell me where it is, before I paint these walls with the inside of your head. Where's my damn money? ANGEL Stop! JAHIL What's up, nephew? ANGEL You're supposed to be dead. JAHIL that's what I wanted people to think. Now, I need my money! JAVIER Then you're gonna have to kill me, then. Th-That money's gone, Jahil. JAHIL I'm not leaving here empty-handed, Javier. JAVIER You want to take something? Take your freaking nephew, then, huh! Because he doing nothing but taking up space aqui, anyway. ANGEL Hell of a reunion. JAHIL Como estas? STAR Carlotta! CARLOTTA Yeah? STAR Where you at? CARLOTTA I'm here. STAR We never get to come in here. It's cool! ALEXANDRA It's like Lord of the Wigs in here. CARLOTTA Shut up. ALEXANDRA CARLOTTA See? That's why this room is off limits. SIMONE Miss C, what is you and Miss Bruce's obsession with wigs all about? CARLOTTA It's not a wig obsession. It's a attitude, a lifestyle. SIMONE Okay. CARLOTTA See this girl, right here? She's telling you, "I'm mellow. I’m-I'm just relaxed. Everything is all good." But this one right here. ALEXANDRA Mm-hmm. STAR Got it. CARLOTTA She like, "I'm feeling myself." STAR Uh-huh. CARLOTTA I'm ready to hit the club, get my groove on. CARLOTTA see what's going on out there. SIMONE Looks like you haven't worn that one in a while. CARLOTTA Yeah. You right. Give it to Miss Bruce for a makeover. ALEXANDRA And, uh, what about this one? CARLOTTA To scare the hell out of a bitch. ALEXANDRA I can tell. CARLOTTA Come on. Who coming for you wearing this? SIMONE Not I. STAR Not one person. STAR No, but I don't see. CARLOTTA Y'all know we got to be on point for this meeting, right? STAR Yeah, we know. CARLOTTA Do you? I mean, when is the last time you had to impress a label head? STAR This is an out of date conversation, because labels are old school. That's not what people care about anymore. It's about views and uploads and likes on the Internet. The music game is changing. CARLOTTA It ain't changing that quick. You still got to play the game. Ayanna Floyd ain't no joke, so just follow my lead in there. STAR Yes, ma'am. ALEXANDRA Carlotta, how's it feel being on the other side of things, now. CARLOTTA feels good. AYANNA I don't give a damn. You're my lawyer. That's what I pay you for. Fix it or you're fired. AYANNA Go. ANDY Irving left word this morning. He said it was urgent. AYANNA Do you have my latte? ANDY What kind of question is that? Skinny, easy foam. AYANNA What's on tap, today? ANDY Well, the marketing team, they want to sit down and talk about strategy. I told them not to come up with those trash-ass PowerPoint presentations anymore. AYANNA Saw the mock-up. They don't grasp the direction of Midtown. Arrange a meeting. ANDY Will do. AYANNA What's next? ANDY Carlotta Brown has been in your office for about 30 minutes. She's with Big Trouble. Listen, I ain't trying trying to be petty, but. AYANNA Then don't. ANDY I don't understand how the winners of Atlanta's NextFest fit into our pedigree. AYANNA It's not for you to understand. Are we clear? ANDY As vodka. That exit never gets old. CARLOTTA So what do you think? AYANNA You won a talent show. And, although your sound is decent, it's not distinct. ALEXANDRA Excuse me? AYANNA Crane, your father came out of the gate swinging. I can name every song on his debut album. You don't have that, sweetheart. ALEXANDRA That's because he whored himself out and licensed every cut. AYANNA No, it's because his album was curated on the pureness of his sound. CARLOTTA Well, have you listened to all the music? AYANNA I've heard all of their music. Their lyrics are uninspired. I'm not saying that every track has to be Winehouse, Joplin, or Mary J, but until the lyrical pool they're swimming in is deeper, that's my thought. STAR I know you just got here, but we've been here for five months, and we have nothing to show for it. That's my thoughts. We have an expiration date. I know that. If we don't get our studio time in, we're done. We're not just gonna let you do that. AYANNA You're very low on my list of priorities. SIMONE So we may or may not be here? AYANNA They need an image re-branding, and that Rachel Dolezal look's gotta go. STAR Really? AYANNA Yeah, really. Simone, your unique shape needs to be handled more delicately. STAR Carlotta? AYANNA I'm speaking. We need to make sure that you're not accentuating what you don't have. Alex, you're a bit of an ice queen. Image is everything, especially when I can go out on YouTube and get the next Ed Sheeran, so warm it up. CARLOTTA Look, you and I can discuss the image later. Where does that leave us for now? AYANNA On my label, and the last I checked, being on any label as a talent show winner is a good look. So it's not nothing. For now. Thanks for coming in. MISS BRUCE Yo, I heard you this morning on the phone with Elliot. I thought y'all were done. COTTON He found out the terms of my probation and offered me a job. MISS BRUCE So he done got you locked up for stealing and he gonna offer you a job? COTTON I don't even know how the hell I'm supposed to trust him. MISS BRUCE It's a setup. Bitch, don't do it. Unless you want him back. Quit slamming doors in here! This is a business. Put them dirty towels in this trash bag. Alexandra, clean the sinks out. Where's Carlotta? STAR At the label, trying to make the new president like us. ALEXANDRA Or not hate every song I've ever written. STAR What you buying now? ALEXANDRA None of your business. STAR That's not gonna make you feel better about us. ALEXANDRA It might. STAR Bruce, she really tore us apart. She said I look like Rachel Dolezal. MISS BRUCE Who is that? STAR The point is, Bruce, this lady is vicious, and she don't like us. And she can end us any time she wants. MISS BRUCE Carlotta your manager, right? Let her manage. That's your problem. You want to control every damn thing. STAR It don't matter who's managing me, Bruce. I ain't gonna stop looking out for myself. ALEXANDRA Ayanna said she can go online and find new artists. There are bomb ass singers popping up everywhere, every day. STAR So what if she finds us? ALEXANDRA What do you mean, "find us"? STAR We been at that label, what, five months? They're not gonna get us with any producers. They're not gonna shoot a video for us. We got our own songs. Why don't we shoot our own? ALEXANDRA We don't have money for a music video. STAR We know a couple dudes in Atlanta we can finesse to bring out their cameras and shoot something. ALEXANDRA Did you not hear her say she didn't like my music? STAR I'm telling you, if we take that song and we shoot a little 2000s cheap video, people will watch it. ALEXANDRA It's not just one thing this lady doesn't like about us. She has a whole list. MISS BRUCE What else she say? ALEXANDRA She said that I'm cold. MISS BRUCE You is. STAR And that we need a new look. MISS BRUCE You do. Look, if y'all trying to get this lady attention, you need to switch it up. STAR Nah. I'm good. MISS BRUCE Ornery ass. Sit down. ALEXANDRA What? MISS BRUCE I'm about to teach you how to slay this bitch. STAR ALEXANDRA Oh, God. STAR Ah! MISS BRUCE Ain't nothing wrong with wigs and weaves. COTTON Girl, I got to see this. STAR Oh, we got scissors. ALEXANDRA Woah woah woah woah! What are you doing? STAR MISS BRUCE Girl, turn around, I’m about to finna cut your hair. STAR Cut it! Make it look like yours! MISS BRUCE You better shut up. STAR THERAPIST Let's talk about family. DEE My mom said she's supposed to come at 100. I don't even know why I believe her lying ass. THERAPIST Because she's your mom. JUVIE GIRL Or maybe it's because she never wanted you to begin with. DEE What? THERAPIST Sit down, Dee. Dee! Now! Now. Switch places with her. Go on. All right, let's try this again. THERAPIST Anyone else want to share? DEE What about Superstar? You don't never talk. THERAPIST Simone can speak whenever she's ready. DEE No. Superstar ain't got no problems. Except all that cracne. And-and she got a white sister named "Star!" GIRL Star. DEE So perfect! DEE AND GIRL KAREN Yo, Dee, chill, yo. DEE What? KAREN Chill out. DEE Oh, what? What? That's your girl, now? KAREN Nah, I'm just saying. DEE Oh, what? What is you saying? KAREN That you doing a lot right now, and it's not necessary. DEE Nah, what's not necessary is you calling me out. THERAPIST Now, Dee! Dee! Dee! KAREN Dee, why would I call you out? What you saying? DEE I don't know. You switching up on me, and I was. THERAPIST Hey, hey, hey! Ladies! KAREN I'm not switching sides. DEE Nah, bitch. Sta-Stand up, ho. Yeah. THERAPIST Code Green to multi-purpose. Code Green to multi-purpose, now! KAREN What’s really THERAPIST Now! Code Green! EVERYBODY Oh! DEE You lied to me, bitch. Oh. Who you loyal to? KAREN Get the hell off me, Dee! DEE I thought you had my back! SECURITY GUARD 1 Hey! Hey! Hey! Get up! Get off her! Get-Get up! SECURITY GUARD 2 Get off! Get her out of here! Just stay down. Down! PEOPLE SIMONE Thanks. For standing up for me. KAREN What? SIMONE I know you and Dee are friends. I'm just saying. It was real nice, what you did. KAREN That's my friend, a'ight? I just didn't feel like seeing your punk ass cry. Get out of here with your perfect-ass life. PEOPLE STAR You nervous? You look nervous. ALEXANDRA Yes. I would like to see. MISS BRUCE STAR It's cute! ALEXANDRA Oh, my God! I mean, how many more of these can you make? MISS BRUCE Mm-hmm. Told you. Now you about to drag that record label to the floor with this one. And what you got to say? STAR I loo. different. But I ain't no different. MISS BRUCE STAR Carlotta might know labels, but I know how to get attention. That's what we're about to do with these. ALEXANDRA Well, I'm about to go show Derek. Thanks, Miss Bruce. MISS BRUCE Mm-hmm. STAR The hell you do with this? MISS BRUCE Girl, wrap it, honey. STAR It's so flat. MISS BRUCE Wrap it that way, fool. ALEXANDRA Hey. DEREK Hey. Come look at this. A man goes to work and finds a noose resting on his desk. Like, people don't even want to be subtle no more. Wow. You look sexy. You cut your hair. ALEXANDRA No, I didn't. It's a wig. I just wanted to try something different, and. That new head at the label went in on my music. She said it was ordinary. DEREK ALEXANDRA Sounded just like my dad. DEREK Aw. Come here. Now, one thing you're no is ordinary. Look, let me touch this. ALEXANDRA No! No, do not touch my hair. DIRECTOR A'ight we gotta move, like, now. What's the holdup? STAR Oh, I'm sorry. Uh, Simone! Hurry up! ALEXANDRA Simone. SIMONE Is this shirt too tight? Does my stomach look okay? COTTON Girl, you serving. Come on. You got it. Trust me. MISS BRUCE Lord, bless her heart. STAR You look cute. DIRECTOR You three up front. Dancers in the back. I'll be moving this camera. You look right at me, okay? STAR Okay. Are you gonna be able to get it all shot and edited today? That's all we care about. DIRECTOR In enough time for me to take your fine ass out tonight. STAR Yeah, we'll talk about it if you get it done. DIRECTOR For real? All right, people! We're burning daylight! Let's go! SIMONE Gross. Bitch. ALEXANDRA Okay, so. STAR Well, what you think? So, you gonna post it on your website or nah? RACHEL Can't you post it yourself? STAR Why you think we brought you here? Oh, we have to kiss her ass, too? ALEXANDRA Look, Rachel STAR This is so stupid. ALEXANDRA You know nothing in Atlanta gets buzz without its biggest social media queen, which is you. RACHEL I try. SIMONE So, are you gonna post it on your site? RACHEL Tell you what, kiss from a little mama, and you got yourself a deal. ALEXANDRA Who. STAR I'm sorry, a kiss? RACHEL I didn't stutter. STAR That's all you want? You just want a kiss and you'll post the video? Okay, come here. RACHEL Not you. Her. SIMONE Me? STAR Simone. RACHEL Congratulations, ladies. Ya'll are about to break the internet. DIRECTOR Yo! JAHIL This is good. You make it? ANGEL Yeah, I've been working on it for a while. JAHIL No, I'm talking about the rice and beans. But the beats are dope, too. ANGEL Trying to be like you, man. JAHIL ANGEL Even though pops thinks I'm no good. JAHIL Well, that's because he thinks you're like me. ANGEL So, you gonna tell me what's up with you or what? Why'd you leave Atlanta? JAHIL Oh, come on, nephew. Things happened, man. It's all good now, though. ANGEL Come on, man. Tio, don't. You don't got to lie to me. JAHIL All right. I got into some trouble in Atlanta. I left town, because I thought I was gonna be framed up for a couple of murders, but the cops made an arrest. ANGEL So you're clear to go back. JAHIL I'm clear with the cops, but I double-crossed the devil's wife. That's why I'm here. I came to get my money, see if I could try to convince her to squash our beef. Guess I got to figure something else out now. ANGEL Take me with you. JAHIL ANGEL Come on, man. I'm trying to get my music out in the A anyway. It's a perfect. JAHIL Hey, hey, Atlanta ain't no place for you. Play me that beat again. And make me a copy, so I can take it on the road with me. A’ight? ANGEL Yeah, I got you. CARLOTTA Good. How much longer? ANDY Um, she's still in a meeting. CARLOTTA That's what you told me a hour ago. Yeah? MISS BRUCE Carlotta, this new stylist left a relaxer on too long. You got to get down here. CARLOTTA I can't right now, Bruce. I'm still at the label, trying to fix things with these girls. MISS BRUCE And you talking about some gir Carlotta! Seriously, I'm two seconds from pulling my switch blade out on this hoe. You need to get down here. CARLOTTA Bruce, handle it. MISS BRUCE Okay, when this hoe sue your ass from here to kingdom come, I'm not going to court with you. CARLOTTA All right, fine! I'm on my way. Damn. CARLOTTA I know you've been a loyal customer and I'm. I'll you what, here you go. Six free visits. Will that work for you? GRACE Hey. Ah. CARLOTTA Okay. All the best. Thank you, Grace. You take good care. I hope this wedding works. Three is the charm, Grace! MISS BRUCE Six free visits? COTTON Mama, we can't afford that. CARLOTTA Don't y'all know Grace is crazy enough to actually sue us? I ain't got time to be caught up with that. I'm trying to figure out what's going on with these girls and this label changes. I mean, we need to keep up. Where y'all been? STAR We shot a music video and had Rachel Wells upload it. CARLOTTA Why would you pull a stunt like that? You know Ayanna already don't like y'all. I just dodged one lawsuit, they walk me right back into another one. You know she'll sue us for everything we got, right? MISS BRUCE That ain't much. ALEXANDRA Okay. Yeah, we need to hear her out. You make a point. STAR Yo, let her come for us. Who cares? At least she's paying attention to us. CARLOTTA What's wrong with you, Star? Why wouldn't you run this past me first? Take the video down. STAR No! We're not taking the video down till we know she's seen it. CARLOTTA No, that's what you don't want. Is for her to see the video. Take it down. STAR We fought our way into that label. So, we're gonna have to keep fighting. If Jahil was here right now, he'd be in Ayanna's face, not mine. CARLOTTA You're really trying me right now. STAR I'm not. No, I'm not trying you, Carlotta. I'm doing what I got to do. Like always. NOAH Got to say, you are persistent. AYANNA Because I want you on my label. And what other label is going to sign you after you were arrested for beating up the exec at your last one? NOAH Man, that dude tried it. People get shot for way less. AYANNA We can argue the First Amendment later. You are a hothead, and you run with a hothead crew. Now, your friends might still think you're it, but no other label's gonna sign you but mine. NOAH We're in talks at Empire right now. AYANNA I talked to Cookie. That's a lie. Now, we can sit here and admire the high life you're representing on the Gram, or we can admit that you're not making enough. Midtown is your last stop. NOAH So, what's the deal? AYANNA Ah. Mm. Were you still nursing that? I'm having a very splashy showcase in three months. Leading up to that, I'm going to have a very public competition amongst the label's best artists. Five of those will be picked for the spotlight. But only one will be able to drop an album. NOAH So, what's that got to do with me? STAR Crickety-ass door. How you gonna only put out one album? AYANNA STAR That don't even make any sense. Your assistant let me in, by the way. He's mad cool. AYANNA You changed your hair. It's a good look on you. STAR Thank you. AYANNA I was just telling Noah that I'm looking for one new artist, who is going to let the industry know that Midtown Sound is back. STAR If you want to bring your label back, maybe you should go online and check out the video we put up. AYANNA I did. I took it down. You are artists on my label. When you go releasing what is the equivalent of video mixtapes, it bifurcates the focus from Midtown. STAR I'm sorry, I only understood like three of the words you just said. AYANNA All right, sweetie. Well then, let me educate you. STAR Please. AYANNA The industry has a long history of artists trying to usurp their label. You'll always end up on the short end. STAR Okay. So, your plan is to have all the artists participate in a musical Hunger Games? AYANNA It's not what I want. It's what the public wants. Makes them feel that they're a part of Midtown. Your group released property of this label without my written consent. As a result, you won't be competing for a spot in the showcase. STAR Okay. So, where does that put me and my group? AYANNA You’re parked. Indefinitely. NOAH Welcome to The Hunger Games, baby. ALEXANDRA SIMONE So, we're stalled until our contract expires? ALEXANDRA I thought Atlanta NextFest would have us leapfrog all this crap. STAR I think the video might have backfired. SIMONE Backfired? We got bitch-slapped to square one. STAR I wouldn't disagree with that. But if you were there, you would've seen it. There's something in her eyes that said she really loves us. ALEXANDRA Yeah, and so did the other 10,000 people that viewed that video before she took it down. That doesn't mean we have an album release date. STAR But it does. SIMONE Star, make sense. STAR We got under her skin. That's all that matters. She can deny anything she wants, but she cannot deny talent. And we have it, she knows it, and she can't control it. That freaks her out. She's gonna put all of the money from the label behind one album, and it's going to be ours. ALEXANDRA Look, if she doesn't drop us, she's gonna ride out the terms. SIMONE And then do what? ALEXANDRA Whatever the hell she wants. Look, she can have us doing scratch tracks, backup. Do you want to do backup? STAR So, we keep grinding! That's what we do. ALEXANDRA We've been on the grind! And where has that gotten us? 'Cause we still don't have a drop date. Every time we take one step forward, we take 30 steps back. SIMONE Yeah, and we keep trying to prove ourselves over and over and over again, Star! STAR This is the hustle that we chose! We could be doing a lot worse. Yo, we are in this, I'm not about to tap out. SIMONE Fine. Okay, then we need to talk to Miss Carlotta, and come up with some sort of game plan to fix all this mess. STAR I'm-a just say it. Maybe Carlotta's part of it. ALEXANDRA A part of what? STAR Maybe she's not the one to get us all the way there. I love Miss Carlotta, we all do. She's family. But for this group, for what we want and what we need right now, maybe we got to have somebody with the same hustle we got. Who thinks outside the box. She might be too old school. ALEXANDRA We're not firing Carlotta. Period. SIMONE Miss Carlotta's family. STAR We got to do whatever it takes, right? SIMONE You're ruthless. CARLOTTA I done told you to keep your drugs out of my house. MISS BRUCE I'm out of the house, am I not? CARLOTTA And the molly? MISS BRUCE Who is Molly? I don't know no Molly. But I did hear you were dealing with a real Becky. Ayanna Floyd? CARLOTTA Ugh. MISS BRUCE CARLOTTA I'm ready to go up in her mouth. She getting on my nerves. And the girls think they know better than me. MISS BRUCE You juggling too much. You need to focus on the girls and the girls alone. Let me handle the salon. CARLOTTA You might be right. You up to it? MISS BRUCE Up to it? Girl, I have some Caucasians and Asians in this equation. That's where your real coin gonna come from. CARLOTTA Mm-mm. See, don't get ahead of yourself. MISS BRUCE Is that a yes? CARLOTTA That's a “run things by me first” before you turn my salon into bougie central. MISS BRUCE Mm-mm. Bad and bougie central. ALEXANDRA Hi, yeah, it's Alexandra Crane. I know you're closing, but can you keep the store open? FEMALE VOICE Of course, Ms. Crane. You're a VIP customer. ALEXANDRA Okay, great. Yeah, I'll be there in ten minutes. Bye. JAHIL The hell? GOON 1 Welcome back to Atlanta. CARLOTTA Hey. Look, I know you may think you alone, but you not. You know, whatever we got to deal with, with Ayanna and Midtown, we gonna do it together. Something else going on? What's up? STAR Me and the girls been talking. We feel like our music is kind of in this crossroads spot, where it's either gonna pop off or flatline. CARLOTTA Say what's on your mind, Star. STAR So, we were thinking I was thinking. We might need a change. CARLOTTA What kind of change? STAR Like management. CARLOTTA STAR You gonna say something? CARLOTTA Nah, I'm straight. You just keep talking. STAR Carlotta, this is not easy for me. CARLOTTA No? What's hard for you, Star? Is it hard for you 'cause maybe you feeling some type of way, 'cause you know it's wrong? And who's supposed to manage the group? You? STAR Listen, if I could. CARLOTTA No, no, no. You listen. You think going at it alone in the world makes you unique. It don't. You sleep with the president of the label. Then, you drop a video without talking to me first, and who's there to clean up your mess? Me. So, this how you want to play this? 'Cause I'm not the problem here, Star. You are. You create your own drama. You not unique. You selfish. SHOP ASSISTANT Miss Crane. Miss Crane! ALEXANDRA Thanks for keeping the store open for me. SHOP ASSISTANT It's a rule for all VIP customers, Ms. Crane. ALEXANDRA Thank you. SIMONE Someone help! Please! Oh, my God! Oh, my God. Somebody, please! KAREN ELLIOT Hello. COTTON So, do I get my own parking spot? ELLIOT We can talk about that on Monday. 900 a.m.? COTTON But this is just business. JAHIL Ah-ah, ow! CARLOTTA Okay, okay, okay. Stop complaining, now. Maggie could've had you killed. JAHIL Ugh. She knew that dropping a dime on Leonard for killing Hunter and Eva would probably smoke my ass out. Ah, she never got over me letting those girls free from that van. CARLOTTA I'm-Look, I'm sorry. Oh. JAHIL But I didn't have no money for her. I paid her with the only thing I had. CARLOTTA I think what happened with Hunter and Eva is enough punishment. JAHIL Maggie's never gonna know that you helped me, Lottie. Never. JAHIL There enough blood? CARLOTTA Yeah, it's enough blood. I can't believe you got me in this mess. CARLOTTA When I said good-bye to you that night, I thought I was never gonna see you again. JAHIL CARLOTTA You okay? JAHIL Ah, yeah. Take off the gloves. JAHIL Take care of it, all right? CARLOTTA The keys. JAHIL No, no, no. Give it to her. CARLOTTA Cotton? JAHIL Yeah. CARLOTTA Where you going? JAHIL Look, even if I knew, I wouldn't tell you. But somewhere far from here. CARLOTTA You ain't coming back, are you? JAHIL Not if I want to stay alive. JAHIL I got to clean up. You know, Lottie. JAHIL If you didn't come tonight, if you-you didn't know what to do I probably would've just let them take me. JAHIL Thank you. JAHIL I got to go. JAHIL What's up with the girls? CARLOTTA They dumped me. JAHIL Oh, that Star ain't never gonna change, I'll tell you that right now. CARLOTTA And I ain't have no paper on them. I thought my word was cool. Maybe I been out of the game too long to know what the hell the new rules are. JAHIL This is the music business. There ain't no damn rules. If that's what you're looking for, go make your own. CARLOTTA This new label president, ah, she's trying to push them aside. I argue with her, but she ain't trying to hear me. JAHIL Stop arguing and just give her something that she needs. CARLOTTA Yo. You show up on my doorstep half dead giving me advice. JAHIL Hey, I could show up at your doorstep all the way dead, I still try to give you advice. CARLOTTA Nah, I don't play that ghost stuff. You ain't gonna have my hands in no clay. You ain't no Patrick Swayze. JAHIL Ow. Ow. CARLOTTA Careful. Careful. NOAH Hey, can you, uh, put that on loop right quick? ENGINEER Copy that. ENGINEER That good? NOAH Yeah. It's good. STAR Yo, looks like you decided to sign. Congrats, but I need the booth. Can you get out? ENGINEER What are you doing? STAR Oh, does this-does this talkback button not work? Does this talkback button not work? Get out the booth, I need it! NOAH Look. STAR Now! NOAH Can you turn the music up, please? Thank you. STAR Do not. ENGINEER Copy that. STAR You know what? Say I won't! GROUPIE This bitch is crazy. I'm outta here. ENTOURAGE MEMBER Hold on. STAR Get out the booth! NOAH Okay, okay, okay. All right. Come on, let's go. Let's get out of here. STAR Where are you going? ENGINEER Home. STAR What am I supposed to do, record myself running back and forth? ENGINEER Figure it out. It's track number three. And F.Y.I., all these buttons work. SHOP ASSISTANT Another glass of champagne? ALEXANDRA Only if you join me. SHOP ASSISTANT Uh. ALEXANDRA Come on. Aren't you basically off anyway? SHOP ASSISTANT You've got a point. To a great night of shopping. ALEXANDRA Yes. SHOP ASSISTANT Let me get these wrapped up and get you out of here. ALEXANDRA Okay. SHOP ASSISTANT What did I do with that bracelet? ALEXANDRA Is everything okay? SHOP ASSISTANT Nothing. It must be on the other tray. ALEXANDRA Probably the bubbly. AYANNA Really? Andy, you're fired! ANDY You're cute. Oh, and technically, HR would have to fire me, and they're closed right now. And besides, they love me. So, thanks again. See you tomorrow. Oh, and, uh, Carlotta Brown's here to see you. AYANNA I assume you heard your girls have been parked, since they released their video. CARLOTTA I did my homework on you. You the black sheep of the family. This is your last stop. And if this doesn't work, what you got left? Small trust fund and a mean shoe collection? AYANNA Do I need to call security? CARLOTTA I am security. I'm security for those girls, and if you take your head out your ass for a minute, you'll see that I'm security for you, too. You want to prove you belong at the head of the Floyd family table? Put my girls back in the showcase. Be the first to break a hot girl group. Don't let God-given talent pass you by just 'cause you got your perfect, surgically enhanced nose bent. AYANNA It was a bad doctor. CARLOTTA Put the music video back up. If we don't get a 100,000 views in five days, then we walk, empty-handed. But if we do, you put us back in the mix. ALEXANDRA We're not firing Carlotta. SIMONE You're ruthless. AYANNA You won't be competing for a spot in the showcase. CARLOTTA You not unique. You selfish. NOAH Move. STAR Will you leave me alone? NOAH Look, I'm trying to help you. Whatever you got inside you right now, let's put it down. Don't lose it. I got you. STAR What, you gonna record my vocals? NOAH Yes, I'm gonna record your vocals. Come on, get in there. Star. STAR You're a weird-ass dude. NOAH All right. What track is it? STAR Three. NOAH I'm ready when you are. STAR Give me a minute. NOAH STAR Can we get the lights down or something? It's super bright.