The arrows falling from the sun likely refer to enlightenment. With this enlightenment, the narrator is able to set down a different path than the one she seemed destined to keep following before she saw the light.

“Bitch” is a pejorative slang term for a woman, but it originally meant “female dog.” Tyler uses the word to link his inability to foster a connection with another living thing when he was younger to his relationship troubles today. Tyler is actually allergic to dogs, which he tweeted about in 2014:

“Threw a ball” could mean that he literally didn’t throw a ball, as in girls didn’t like him because he didn’t play sports growing up. It could be an analogy for the small talk and effort that’s usually required to strike up a romantic relationship, since this song is mostly about how the people around Tyler don’t go out of their way to reach out to him.

“Stem” also continues the garden theme throughout the album.

Part of Yachty’s signature look is the red beads in his hair. He claims these beads are becoming as iconic as Michael Jackson’s famous white sequin glove.

Tyler featured Frank on “Slater,” a track about riding bikes from his 2013 album Wolf. In a tweet from that same year, Tyler explained that Slater is the name of his favorite bicycle. “Slater” is a homophone of “slayed her,” which insinuates that he and his date had sex.

This is also a reference to Jay’s earlier “Big Willie” line. Tyler pronounces “Willie” like “wheelie,” just as Jay did. Big Willie Style was the title of Will Smith’s 1997 debut album.

“Fishtailing” is when a car loses its rear traction and the back end of the car skids side to side. Tyler’s use of the term connects back to Frank’s line about his bike sounding like a fishing rod when he rides it downhill.

This is a callback to one of Hov’s infamous lines on 1996’s “Can’t Knock The Hustle”:

Chilly with enough bail money to free a Big Willie
High stakes, I got more at stake than Philly

“Willie,” short for “Big Willie,” is a 1990s hustler term for a big shot. Jay also pronounces “willie” so it sounds like “wheelie” to paint a picture of him pulling wheelies on his motorcycle in traffic—a stunt which isn’t farfetched considering he said he’s been doing it since he was six years old on 2000’s “Best of Me Pt. II:”

Used to wheelie bicycles since I was six

The “bike life” is a large part of Philadelphia culture, and gangs of urban dirt bike riders will sometimes ride through the streets. This is also an allusion to Jay’s friend Will Smith, who was born and raised in West Philly; his 1997 debut studio album was titled Big Willie Style.

This could also be a reference to William Penn’s statue on top of City Hall in Philadelphia, which is one of the highest points in the city. It’s located in the middle of Broad Street and is visible when a driver is stuck in traffic.

On April 7, 2017, Kendrick released the iTunes pre-order for his new album and revealed the full list of composer credits. Fans assumed that mention of this juncture implied an album release date, however, Anthony “Top Dawg” Tiffith confirmed via Twitter that this was false—implying that the day originally coincided with a possible drop date for the album’s lead single, “HUMBLE.”:

Meanwhile, in poker and card-game terminology, an “ante” is a stake put up by each player as a required contribution to the group pot that becomes the winner’s prize. Kendrick is challenging other rappers to play the rap game at his level.

This ending is similar to the end of “The Heart Part 3”:

Will you let hip-hop die on October 22nd?

Kendrick’s critically acclaimed debut album good kid, m.A.A.d city was released on October 22, 2012. He anticipates this new album will raise the bar and warns the competition that they best be up to par if they want to compete.

He also mirrors Jay Z’s closing lines from his 2006 post-retirement single “Show Me What You Got”:

Get the fuck out the throne, you clone, the King’s back!
Y'all got less than two months to get y'all thing together
Good luck

This and the previous line also bear resemblance to Kendrick’s bars from the second part of ​"untitled 07 | 2014-2016":

What an accomplishment, broken promises
Kept my focus anonymous ‘till I dealt with the consequence
The greatest, the latest mogul, you know what time it is

This shot seems to be aimed at Tory Lanez. Drake has “sonned” Tory Lanez musically, so if they were to do a song together, it would be just like taking his kid to work with him.

Drake flips Lanez’s government name of Daystar Peterson—as well as the titles of his debut album I Told You and track “One Day”—into insults about the rapper’s lack of staying power and personal insecurities about success.

The two have been trading thinly-veiled jabs for years. Lanez said that Drake’s nickname for Toronto, “The 6,” was not cool, Drake used Lanez’s flow to call out new Toronto rappers on “Summer Sixteen,” and Lanez made fun of Drake’s OVO owl logo on “Drive You Crazy.”

Furthermore, the following line:

Behind closed doors, a lot of 6 God worshipping

may refer to Meek Mill publicly singing “Fake Love” in a club. Although the scene does not occur in a private area (behind closed doors), it still emphasizes how one of Drake’s worst enemies still showed him love: