My mom would always tell me as a young boy, “You are who you hang out with, son." I also feel like music can have an impact on who you are. The language in music is told through the lyrics and context from artist to the listener (audience). As a young kid I could see how the types of lyrics in music influenced people around me in negative and positive ways. In my case it influenced me both positively and negatively by the different types of music influencing the decisions I made in my early teenage years as well as later on in life after having a child. I have also seen family members become violent and more sexual due to the genre of music they listened to as opposed to members in their own families acting differently while listening to different music genres. Music is a type of language that speaks to many people and can influence the way they live their lives in a negative and/or positive ways. From my childhood my parents let me and my six brothers listen to any type of music no matter the context of the lyrics. My parents are not the type to care about the future so they never stressed us to do good in life. They just let us become who ever we thought we should be. Growing up, my eldest sibling was someone I wanted to become like. But as time went by I saw how the type of songs he listened to influenced him in negative ways. His whole demeanor changed for the worst. He became more violent and had no respect for authority. He listened to rap music, mostly anything that had to do with Tupac’s “thug life” movement. Tupac’s music was always about drugs, guns, and have no respect for authority. As everyday went by I wanted to become less like my eldest brother even though my love for him never changed. The language and context of the music he listened to changed the way he thought, the way he spoke, and most importantly changed his actions. In “Why I Write”, Terry Tempest Williams says, “I write out of my anger I write