From Terrace Martin interview with Rolling Stone:

I said to myself: “What represents unity? What represents peace?” I love the Seventies, because the Seventies was when it was about making love, and smoking weed, doing LSD and lots of other cool shit. And also: “What represents California?” And even more than that, “What represents where I come from, the Crenshaw district of South Central Los Angeles?” And I thought about flowers, because of the Seventies. And flowers brought peace. Everybody loves flowers! Then I thought about sunflowers – just the sun, out in California – and I thought of polly seeds, because that’s just what we eat in the hood. That’s a hood delicacy. A polly seed is like a motherfucking … the most expensive shrimps, whatever, in France? It’s a polly seed in the hood.

I don’t care what you are. If you’re from the hood, you probably eat polly seeds. So I was trying to think of something that would bring all of us together, but still keep it hood. … We are all together, We are all one one body – like Voltron. That’s the whole concept of the Pollyseeds right there. It’s like love, sisterhood, brotherhood, togetherness – like we don’t discriminate on anything. If you know how to love, you a Pollyseed. Like, you probably a Pollyseed! Everybody can be a Pollyseed. This album is not ours. It’s [for] everybody pushing the peace line, that’s pushing love.