You don't have to be a certain thing to be cool. If you're white, you don't have to act black or whatever. Just be you and know who you are.
Yeah, baggy jeans are done. Nobody wants to wear big, baggy jeans. Baggy jeans are completely over with.
Whatever I do, I do it because I want to do it and because it's completely, 100% me.
There's people who I admire like... Dr. Dre, Puff Daddy, Master P, people who built their stuff and are still going.
Since I was younger I've been making the best out of nothing.
Philly is more East Coast than Pittsburgh. It's closer to New Jersey and New York, so the vibe is way more fast-paced.
People connect with me just as a cool, around-the-way type of guy.
My music and my fan base is really built off of my lifestyle.
My live performance, it just comes from feeling an energy and emotion from the crowd.
My dad has been a big influence on me, because he's always had his own business. He really taught me business sense and how to be a focused individual, but also how to have fun and make everyone around you have fun.
Just growing up in Pittsburgh and knowing different neighborhoods, having family there and just loving it, it's like no other place.
I've done a lot of work to get where I'm at, but I have to keep working.
I'm always hustling.
I want to be an icon.
I think wherever you go, when people hear good music, they will react to it.
I like a lot of old-school R&B, soul, and classic rock.
'Khalifa' is Arabic, it means successor, leader, shining light. My granddad is Muslim and he gave me that name.
I think hip-hop is really fun right now... And that's why people are using dance beats and singing more.
I never write from concept. The beat is the beginning, and then I fill in the rest of the song into what it should be.
I never want to confuse people or go over their heads.
I have an idea of who I want to be, I have a vision of my own success.
Every day is new. It's just a new day. I look at six hours at a time.
I don't take time off.
I made my first mix tape when I was 14.
