(verb) to cause to fall downward suddenly.

The Lil’ Kim Chronicles: Part Four
“The Epiphany”

As Nicki Minaj’s career skyrocketed, Lil Kim’s circa 1997 career quickly precipitated. The once very popular artist was now forced to use Pay Pal due to the fact that she hasn’t had a hit single since 2001. Her latest Black Friday mixtape was released just last year, but they can now be found sold at any local Dollar Tree for half off. She has miraculously sold a total of 12 mixtapes nationwide despite the fact that her career is at the lowest point its ever been since she began recording as a music artist. Recent articles have reported that Lil Kim has been spotted in local Dollar Tree stores buying her own mixtapes in an attempt to revive her dying career.

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It was another beautiful spring day as Lil Kim was rudely awakened by the sound of a garbage truck emptying mounds of rubbish from a revolting dumpster into its overflowing bin of trash that was to be taken to the dump later that morning.
“No! Not my house!” Lil Kim scrambled from her cardboard box bed lined with a makeshift blanket made of Dollar Tree plastic bags taped together. The removal of the dumpster from its usual place had caused the rest of Lil Kim’s house to collapse. It was made of traffic cones, cardboard boxes and careful stacks of her Black Friday CD mixtapes. she had plenty of copies ever since her career had been driven into the dirt by her arch nemesis, Nicki Minaj. The garbage truck had caused her home to collapse and Lil Kim had fallen to her knees. She began cradling her cracked and broken mixtapes in her arms as warm tears began streaming down her cheeks, ruining her poorly drawn makeshift Sharpie eyeliner. The startled garbage man stumbled out of the garbage truck and quickly ran over to Lil Kim. “Are you alright ma’am? Are you hurt?” Lil Kim only hung her head low and showed the garbage man her CDs.

“my CDs… they’re ruined.” she whispered.

the garbage man let out a sigh of relief. “thank goodness. at least nothing important was broken here.” he casually strolled back to his garbage truck, faintly whistling Nicki Minaj’s hit song “Super Bass”.
As Lil Kim sat there next to the remains of her crumbled home, she slowly stood up. She stood proudly with her head held high. She knew that this was no time to be moping around. She picked up her makeshift Walmart plastic bag purse and walked over to the remainder of her mixtapes in her off white Reebok’s that were in the clearance section at Ross (although they were two sizes too big). She began piling her remaining CDs in her slowly ripping plastic bag purse.
Lil Kim had made her way to a nearby Burger King in hopes to find breakfast in their dumpsters. She was in luck; a half eaten Whopper and two chicken nuggets. She even found a refreshment in an old used Burger King cup. As Lil Kim enjoyed her banquet, she reassuringly patted her plastic bag purse and whispered to her CDs,
“Looks like our luck is turning around, afterall.”
Tears of joy began rolling down her cheeks as she hurriedly made her way into Burger King in hopes of being able to use the restroom. The moment she pushed open the smudged glass doors of the Burger King entrance, she heard the voice of Nicki Minaj as her hit song was being played over the restaurant speaker system.
“This one is her the boys with the boomin’ system, top down AC with the coolin’ system” Nicki so excellently rapped. What had just been tears of joy were now slowly transforming into tears of envy and sadness. She ran into the ladies’ restroom and let the streams run down her face and into the dingy ceramic sink.

She wiped her tears with her expired 7-11 coupons and began reapplying her Sharpie eyeliner and Dollar Store foundation (which was much too light for her skin tone) .

As she reapplied her makeup, she stared deeply into her reflection of the bathroom mirror. A single salty tear fell down her cheek as she whispered,

“I’ll make my comeback. They’ll see. They’ll all see”.

She proceeded to pick up her plastic bag purse. “Today is a new day” she said softly as she headed out the door. She made her way to K-Mart for their 50% Off Sale that was soon to take place.