Taraji P. Henson was asked about her character, Cookie, from the TV show “Empire”: “Is she influenced by Foxy Brown? Certainly,” Henson says. “That’s where a lot of her style comes from—Salt-N-Pepa, all of that. That era of Hip Hop was her heyday, those are the woman she identifies with. Kim is everything,” she says. “Today it’s Nicki Minaj, but Nicki Minaj got everything from Kim. Kim came on the scene and made everything change for women—she made it feminine and sexy and hardcore. She was a champion, and she’s certainly Cookie’s champion.”