Figurative language found in Jay Z’s on The Black Album : hip hop song

This research focuses on analyzing the types of figurative language used by Jay Z’s song on The Black Album: Hip Hop Song. The researcher proposes two statement of the problem. Those are what are the types of figurative language found in Jay Z’s on The Black Album: Hip Hop Song and what are the messages found in Jay Z’s on The Black Album: Hip Hop Song. The researcher used Perrine theory of figurative language to analyze the type of figurative language that is used by Jay Z on his song. The data are obtained through song ‘The Black Album’. To solve the problem, the researcher uses qualitative content analysis approach because the data collected are in the form of words. Finally, the researcher find out that there were eleven types of figurative language from 14 song they are simile, metaphor, personification, verbal irony, hyperbole, apostrophe, synecdoche, metonymy, allegory, paradox and symbol, but the researcher did not find understatement. The dominant type of figurative language in the Jay Z’s songs is metaphor. The researcher found 134 types of figurative language in the whole data. there are 36 simile, 40 metaphor, 12 personification,2 verbal irony, 10 hyperbole, 1 apostrophe, 9 synecdoche, 23 metonymy, 1 allegory, 2 paradox and 1 symbol.