As I matured I started listening to more and more types of music. I was introduced to the rap genre in fourth grade when I received my first iPod Shuffle for Christmas. This moment was the beginning of my “musical journey”. @Eminem is known as one of the most lyrical rappers in the game, if not the most lyrical. My first impression of Eminem was that I couldn’t hear a word he was uttering. It wasn’t until I started reading his lyrics when I started to really understand and enjoy what he was creating in his music. Eminem introduced me to so many different lessons in literature, including figures of speech, double entendres, words I have never heard before, and phrases I still use to this day. Listening to Eminem and reading his lyrics at the same time is an example of how I used aural and lingual literacies to be a multimodal reader.
