After years of marriage, Kobe Bryant and his wife Vanessa filed for divorce. The couple didn’t sign a prenuptial agreement when they got married in 2001, so Vanessa is entitled to half of their community property, approximately $150 million. Somewhere, Shaq is smiling

In a tweet, Common states that his three favorite rappers growing up were Big Daddy Kane, Rakim, and KRS-ONE. If we look at each of their debuts, it seems that each one lines up with one of the people in the line.

• Rakim’s debut, Paid in Full, makes him the hustler

• BDK’s debut Long Live the Kane, makes him the king. BDK is also known as King Asiatic Nobody’s Equal which confirms that he is the king.

• KRS-One’s debut Criminal Minded would make him the prisoner.

Every artist in the song up until this point has discussed mostly biblical or religious interpretations of heaven. Pops, on the other hand, believes that heaven is what he has now. He is perfectly happy just being with his family so he doesn’t care much for the idea of a biblical heaven. This contrast of a biblical heaven with a personal heaven supports the main theme of the song: Heaven exists, but it is what you make it to be. A similar idea was explored in Blu’s song, The World is…(Below the Heavens)

Erykah views heaven as a place of total equality. Nobody is rich or poor in heaven, since money doesn’t matter or exist there. She also says that heaven is our true home an idea presented in 2 Corinthians 5:8:

We are confident, I say, and would prefer to be away from the body and at home with the Lord.

From Revelation 21:21:

The twelve gates were twelve pearls, each gate made of a single pearl. The great street of the city was of pure gold, like transparent glass

From James 3:17:

But the wisdom that comes from heaven is first of all pure; then peace-loving, considerate, submissive, full of mercy and good fruit, impartial and sincere

Jill utters some of the same sentiments that Omar did about heaven being a place of peace, in contrast to life on Earth which is chaotic and hateful

From James 4:8:

Come near to God and he will come near to you. Wash your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded

It’s amazing, that I made it through the maze that I was in
Lord forgive me I never would’ve made it without sin

A reference to Genesis 1:27 which states:

So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them.

Also since Cee-Lo says that God will see his face, he seems to be optimistic about his chances of going to heaven.