I get a different feel from the Pharrell verse. I think he wraps up the song quite well, saying he's wondering how God will paint today's canvuses (people) when there are so many different kinds of people in the world, the ballers, the no-names, the drug dealers. He then uses the allusion to VA Tech to show what people will do for fame nowadays, saying he bets the shooter wishes he was alive to see himself on the cover of time like he didn't do it, therefore recognizing someone the average person wouldn't before (random person on a magazine cover).
I get a different feel from the Pharrell verse. I think he wraps up the song quite well, saying he's wondering how God will paint today's canvuses (people) when there are so many different kinds of people in the world, the ballers, the no-names, the drug dealers. He then uses the allusion to VA Tech to show what people will do for fame nowadays, saying he bets the shooter wishes he was alive to see himself on the cover of time like he didn't do it, therefore recognizing someone the average person wouldn't before (random person on a magazine cover).