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Storyline [edit]. Hakeem Lyon was born to Lucious and Cookie Lyon. He grew up in a Philadelphia ghetto with his father, brothers, his cousin Bunkie Williams, and father's friend Vernon Turner.He was only a baby when his mother was arrested; she was helping his father sell drugs to pay for his music career.akeem begins dating an R&B singer named Tiana Brown (Serayah McNeill), but has a much older lover named Camilla (Naomi Campbell) whom he sees on the side. Hakeem's oldest brother Andre (Trai Byers) has his wife Rhonda (Kaitlin Doubleday) leak a video of Tiana making out with a female model to the internet.