Khalifa goes in depth about why he chooses not to include any violence in his music. He feels that his younger fan base should have other options in hip hop music. “I kept violence—Well, I still keep violence out of my music because a lot of the kids from where I’m from and just not even where I’m from, but just the inner-city in general. That’s all we hear. That’s all we know. That’s all we really look up to. And it’s cool because we enjoy that from certain people, but I just always—just as a kid and being different I gravitated towards other things along with that. So, I just want to give kids an option to look at somebody who doesn’t talk about that stuff. Who they still think is [as] cool as those same people. You know what I mean? Cause that’s who I am in real life anyway. So, it’s not really hard to do that through my music.”