Well, Minaj's emotions may be complicated, but Mike Will Made It's torpid beat raises neither temperature nor tempo, and Minaj was clearly too overcome by her sad feelings to write a decent chorus: this one lists around in search of a hook before evaporating in a puff of embarrassment.
Repeated showings of the videotape of the beating raised unhappy memories here of the Rodney King case.
In 1929, E. B. White married Katharine Angell and, with his office mate, James Thurber, published his first book, a lampoon featuring fake Freudian sexologists, titled "Is Sex Necessary?" (Their answer: not strictly, no, but it beats raising begonias).
Without missing a beat, Howard raised the extreme spectre of a Donald Trump presidency or the alternative, Hillary Clinton.
Without missing a beat, he raised both hands in a peace sign and waved them back and forth.
Skechers started off with a strong rally in October that included an earnings beat and raised guidance.
A black man died on Sunday after being clubbed repeatedly by officers in a videotaped beating that raised new accusations of police brutality against blacks in Cincinnati nearly three years after the city was rocked by riots.
Held down, the victims' abdomens were sliced open by high priests wielding ceremonial knives, and their hearts – still beating – were raised to the spirits above and the crowd in the sacred precinct below.
The sun beat down, raising a sweet-oniony smell from the hundreds of mariposa lilies in bloom.
White took on all comers and beat them, raising the bar yet again in a sport he has owned for a dozen years.
