UPDATE: We went ahead and just added the entire premiere below.

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Rapper T.I. and Mekhi Phifer begin their season-long arc on “House of Lies” on Sunday night playing a media mogul team in the mold of Jay Z and Damon Dash. Yahoo TV talked with show creator Matthew Carnahan to get the details.

Though Jay Z and Dash inspired the story, he said, “it definitely veers wildly from that.” They started with that relationship, and “the notion of what happens when business and loyalty collide and the lengths that the people will go to to succeed — that certainly resonated for me,” said Carnahan.

You can read more on the above clip at Yahoo! TV. The actual series airs on Showtime.

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