THE ANALYSIS OF ASSOCIATIVE MEANINGS USED IN MONA HAYDAR’S SELECTED RAP SONG LYRICS AS A DEPICTION OF MUSLIMS IN AMERICA

This research analyzes associative meanings in the lyric of Mona Haydar’s selected songs. The purpose of this study was to determine the types of associative meanings used in song lyrics and the most dominant meanings used in Mona Haydar's three religious rap songs. After that, the researcher presents the reasons for using the most dominant meaning. These three religious songs were chosen based on the selection results in which these three songs were created in three consecutive years and had interrelated meanings. The research data are words, phrases, and sentences in the Mona Haydar song from this research. The method used in this research is the descriptive qualitative method, which describes the data to facilitate the data collection. The researcher uses the documentation method by collecting by first selecting the data to be analyzed. The types of associative meanings found in this research data are Connotative Meaning with 9 data, Stylistic Meaning with 27 data, Affective Meaning with 32 data, Reflected meaning with 42 data, and Collocative Meaning with 18 data. The research findings show that the most dominant associative meaning used in the three religious songs of Mona Haydar is Reflected meaning with 42 data. This indicates that in Mona Haydar's song, many lyrics have double meanings that give new meanings based on the context. Meanwhile, Connotative Meaning is the type of meaning used the least in Mona Haydar's songs