Pusha doesn’t always have to be a gentleman.

Kendrick’s mother was a sitter for others, and she also sold Section 8 vouchers (food stamps) as a source of income.

Section 8 of the Housing Act of 1937 (42 U.S.C. § 1437f), often simply known as Section 8, authorizes the payment of rental housing assistance to private landlords on behalf of approximately 3.1 million low-income households. It operates through several programs, the largest of which, the Housing Choice Voucher program, pays a large portion of the rents and utilities of about 2.1 million households. Kendrick’s family was one of these households that required aide.

The acronym m.A.A.d has two meanings:

1. “my Angry Adolescence divided”
2. “my Angels on Angel dust”

As explained by Kendrick in the clip below:

Essentially, Frank was about to start talking about how nothing is absolute, and everything is eventually forgotten, but that would lead to like. 5 more Tumblr posts.

Speaking of Frank Ocean’s Tumblr, here’s a post from it.

Frank Ocean on religion:

i was raised christian. only had a few friends from different religions growing up. these days i’ve got family from agnostic to islam. my grandmother was pentecostal evangelical. she brought much of that fire and brimstone back to her household. my uncle tony said the other kids teased him and his siblings, called them “holyrollers”. so as you may or may not expect, my mother was, and still is, less than imposing when it comes to a particular system of belief. i was a practicing catholic for a short time. me and moms started going to separate churches when i was like 13. i never sang or played in the church though, unfortunately. i remember being kind of intimidated by the idea of it actually. church was the hood julliard to me. all the coldest musicians came out of there. the lady in the video…summa cum laude.

Source: Tumblr

Alludes to the fact that this girl lives her life as if everyday counts.

“Live not one’s life as though one had a thousand years, but live each day as the last.” – Marcus Aurelius

Essentially a YOLO reference.

Or even more appropriate to the Roman Emperor’s words and Kendrick Lamar is the Latin maxim, “carpe diem” which means “seize the day.” While YOLO can be used to vaguely justify acts, no matter what the consequence; in essence “seizing the day” can be an encouragement to live life the best way you can. Lamar’s original statement, when looked at this way, can be more connected to the next verse poetic justice, which is a just end to your actions good or bad.