Craps is a gambling game, where players make wagers depending on the results dice rolls performed in a series.

Q could be insinuating a couple of things with this line:

• Life is like a dice game, so why would you pass up on making wagers?

• Q could be pulling a double entendre, and by “craps”, he could also be saying that life is crap anyways, so you might as well wager it all, because it isn’t worth much, anyways.

Apart from the everyday his everyday normal hustling, when he sees that this cannot make ends meet, his mind forces him to hustle harder for his little girl, so she can have the things that little girls are supposed to have, it being a hard life living in his hood.

Now you won’t have to worry, because she’s swaggin' like her muthafuckin' daddy.

Q’s mom began a job as a AAA night-shift dispatcher. Thus in his school years she barely saw Q, but she’d leave money on the kitchen counter in the morning, and food in the microwave at night.

I used to leave the house, be gone until 6 in the morning, and my mom never even knew,

2Pac, a legendary California rapper, died in 1996, just a year before fellow California rapper, Suga Free, dropped his debut album. So, while they all mourn Pac, they also could bump Street Gospel.

It just so happens that Q got a song with Suga Free for his major debut album, Oxymoron, entitled Grooveline, Pt. 2. It’s a sequel to the tenth track on his second independent album, Habits & Contradictions.

CHECK OUT THE TRACK HERE!

When ScHoolboy’s grandmother died, he didn’t have anybody to raise him, so then was the moment of realization; he realized he had to support himself now and be his own parent, so when she died, he started moving crack to get money and in the process became a “G”, or a “Gangsta”.

There IS a possibility, depending on the way you listen to to this, that he could be saying “Became ma fuckin' G”. It would go well with what he is saying, since he is talking about how he had to replace her.

The thing about this that is significant, however, is he is saying he became “ma fuckin' G”, and could be also heard as “G-ma”, or an often used slang term for Grandmother.

You better try and be peaceful, because if you rile up K-Dot he’s gonna get violent with you.

This could be taken in the way of the commonly used idiom,

Hold your peace,

which means that people should keep their opinions to themselves. Kendrick could be saying here, that if they have anything bad to say about him, they should just keep quiet before Kendrick either disses them, or gets physically violent.

Piece could also be interpreted as a homophone for peace here, in that case, K-Dot would be telling you to hold your piece, or hold a weapon closely, because you already KNOW that Kendrick promotes violence, and will be quick to pull out his as well.

This sounds like a reiteration of how serious he is and comes with his bars, but it could mean a couple of things.

• Kendrick says a few bars back,

I’ll take you to them pearly gates,
Them golden streets

He most likely means with the “Do you believe” in the outro, that when you die you can have peace from Kendrick’s piece, referencing religion, as it does throughout this song’s entirety.

• Kendrick is a god, which is why he can take you to the pearly gates and the golden streets.

As Kendrick states earlier,

this is church

and if this is church, and Kendrick is spitting his own gospel. Kendrick is the “messiah”, and he wants to know if you believe in him or not, as do many people of christianity, and other people of atheism do not.

This would be the fifth and sixth line of this song referencing religion.

Also a reference to Jay-Z’s song Do You Believe (Hova Interlude), where he raps:

Do you believe, it’s Hova the God

A reference to the Hot Boys, a group signed to Cash Money Records.

Rock is about getting money, so that’s why he is hot, boy.