In a Complex Magazine feature, Krit explained the central metaphor of this song:

When you get back to your surroundings, it’s about having a female that believes in you and is by your side regardless and understands you may have a job that you can’t be around all the time. Either doing music or being a traveling shoe salesman or whatever, when you have to be traveling and you hit her with the ‘Leave the porch light on.’ Where I’m from, it’s like, ‘I’ll be back so don’t turn the porchlight off’

Also, “leaving the porchlight on” means to help him find his way home, (to where he was before, metaphysically) after being on the road for so long.

The hook is sung by the legendary bluesman B.B. King who, like, Krit, is a Mississippi native. Krit explained to Complex how the unusual collaboration came about

I was riding around listening to [this song] one time, then I talked to my man Wally and said, ‘Yo, why don’t we fucking put B.B. King on the track?’ We were all laughing. ‘That’d be hot! That’d be dope.’ And we started talking about it because the shit we saying was mad real. Then I really thought about it and I was like, ‘Yo what if I really did it?’ Just to see, I had my lawyer reach out to B.B. King’s folks and he had an individual named Jason that does a lot of his marketing now. He was a fan of my music

He knew about my music. He kind of helped put the wheels in motion to get the record to B.B. and play it for him. He loved the record. I ended up flying to Las Vegas and actually ended up being in the studio with him while he sung the hook and played the guitar on the record. My grandmother put me on B.B. King growing up. She was a big fan of B.B. King. ‘The Thrill Is Gone’ is one of the first records I was introduced and it’s still being played right now. This is definitely for my grandma. This is monumental just for me as an artist and musician to do a record with somebody so legendary. He was so cool, man. He was talking to us about the tour life. He had mad jokes. He was just chilling. He was like, ‘Yo, I really like this song.’ I was like, ‘Man, I am glad you do’

At this point, Krit picks up the narrative from part 1. He explained the story to Complex:

There was a story in ‘My Sub’ in the first one that didn’t get finished so I am bringing it back. And this is the jacking, so this is what happens after I get to the club and I get to the female. I’m excited for people to hear this record and to what happens in part two

Legendary country singer and songwriter Willie Nelson is famous for his longtime public advocacy of marijuana. He is the co-chair of the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws advisory board

The green color of Domo’s (presumably strong) marijuana puts him in mind of the uniforms of the NBA’s Boston Celtics

Domo big-ups the spring 2012 release *The OF Tape Vol. 2*, a compilation record by the members of his collective, Odd Future Wolf Gang

He goes retarded in his solo track on the tape – “Doms”.

Producer Harry Fraud is a frequent collaborater with DZA, Curren$y, Action Bronson, and French Montana.

“Cue” is also a homophone for Q. The idea is that after Schoolboy Q’s verse and the final hook, the audience expresses their pleasure through applause. Hence, “That’s the Q for applause”.