References to the Rapture

The Rapture is when we all go to heaven or hell.  There are many references to this phenomenon are sprinkled throughout music and literature.  Here are some highlights:

What if today was the rapture and you completely tarnished?
The truth will set you free, so to me be completely honest
 – Kendrick Lamar

Second-coming-of-Christ flow, they like, “Whoa!”
Rapture you with lyricism, kidnap your soul – Logic

Preparing for the rapture, closet hillbilly threw the spinners on the tractor
I listen to Uncle Kracker
But, that’s white America for you, we all that matters
I’m walking backwards, shadowboxing with karate masters – Mac Miller

Lead by example, don’t get caught up in the rapture
Life is just a raffle, mostly pain, but some laughter – Big K.R.I.T.

I call it as it happen, the art of quality rapping
One autobiographical chapter could start up the rapture

And even though I walk in the narrow valley of death
All I see is green pastures, bitches screaming from the rafters
 – Jay Electronica

To escape the rupture they speak of rapture
While still going after the things they spiritually capture
Distaster faster and faster and faster – Lauryn Hill

Still young but a grown man, could tell by my stature
Stackin’ money and problems as I wait for the rapture
Death never been no threat, I be chillin’, relaxin’
Everybody bleed
 – Vince Staples

If you wit it, then you know that who’s really
Runnin this rap shit,niggas caught in the rapture
These niggas is just actors we shoot out on film – Joey Badass

Learn to survive through love and Jezebels and street pastors
Live as free as we can cause Hell on Earth is being recaptured
I’m caught in this ghetto rapture, spirit detached

I’m smoking backwoods looking for greener pastures – Jay Rock

Honeys form a line form a line cause I always seem to capture
Beats made of rupture, rhymes made of rapture – Pete Rock

Rollin’ out of the dealership in a McLaren
These rappers is Peter Pan, I’m Pan-African

Space invader blackin’ ‘em
Mixin’ Alexander McQueen with Haider Ackermann
Real rapture in the form of a living man – Black Thought

Comin’ to capture, your after-laughter
While I’m hanging from this rafter, I have to rip this rapture
Cause the cramps in my stomach, dismantle
When I tamper with your amplifier
, you damn-you die – Slug

The most common rhymes seem to contain laughter, capture and rafter in them.  Also unsurprisingly themes tend to include life, death and religion.  Shoutout to Mac for sole ownership of tractor, Uncle Kracker and karate master rhyme.