Although the nature of the relationship of music on students' emotional development remains an issue for continued research, my overall purpose is to provide adults with research-based methods to help children become better consumers of hip-hop music. First, I identify research-based recommendations to prepare adults as facilitators of children's developing pro-social behaviors. Second, I provide techniques that adults could use to help children interpret and analyze characters in popular lyrics within pro-social behavioral guidelines. Finally, partly based on findings from a national middle-school student focus group questionnaire, I offer a plan for easy-to-implement activities adults could utilize to help children assess and appreciate the feelings of characters described in popular musical lyrics. The following are appended: (1) Questions from the Middle School Student Music Preference Questionnaire; (2) Strategies that Adults Can Use to Engage Children in Pro-Social Behavior about Hip-Hop Musical Lyrics; and (3) Strategies that Adults Can Use to Engage Children in Pro-Social Behavior about Hip-Hop Musical Lyrics.