Snoop Dogg made a decision to stop rapping about “death and violence,” as he refers to in an interview with Rolling Out.

“On my second album, ‘Tha Doggfather,’ when I beat my murder case, I redirected my pen to write life because I felt like I had wrote death all up until that point,” Snoop told legendary deejay Fatman Scoop on Instagram live,” explained Snoop Dogg.

“When I started writing ‘Tha Doggfather,’ I lost a lot of fans. I lost a lot of homies because they wanted me to keep it gangsta after beating the murder case. They wanted me to glamorize and glorify, but I was like, somebody’s life was lost. My life was changed. This is a real situation,” Snoop said. “I have actual remorse. I feel bad.”