ANALISIS KOMPONEN MAKNA PADA SLANG DALAM ALBUM SNOOP DOGG “MALICE N WONDERLAND”

Meaning always exists in every communication. Through semantics, those meaning are studied. One of media to communicate is song which generally conveys message and meanings. The Songs have special characteristic in their lyric. Each lyric is created to have a nuance. Unlike the general English songs, the lyrics of Rap and hip hop music’s mostly have their own way in expressing the lyric’s meaning by slang words that look odd for common people. The purposes of the study are to describe and classify the meaning of slang words recently by analysing one of major hip hop singer’s album. The writer uses descriptive qualitative method in presenting the data. In gaining the data, the writer uses non-participant observation by collecting all of slangs in the whole songs from the recently album. The writer uses componential analysis theory to analyze the data because it is used to identify the difference of meaning of the same words. From the study, the writer concludes that mostly specialization and full change meaning categorizations of slang are found in the analysis. Besides, there are some variant slangs which explain terms of sex, drugs and its effect. The result of the study has shown the outline of slangs which Black-American usually use recently