JUSHPEN Vol 1 No. 2 Agustus 2022 | P-ISSN: 2829-0410 E-ISSN: 2829-0534, Page 20-26 20 DENOTATIVE AND CONNOTATIVE MEANING IN LYRIC “MOCKINGBIRD” SONG BY EMINEM Indah Lestari a , Dwi Nitisari b a Faculty of Letters and Culture, Indahlestari004@gmail.com, Gunadarma University b Faculty of Letters and Culture, Dnitisari@gmail.com, Gunadarma University ABSTRACT This research aims at analyzing several words, phrases, and clauses in 'Mockingbird' song sung by Eminem (2004) which have denotative and connotative meaning and finding the relation between the meaning found to the context of the singer's real life. In analyzing the denotative and connotative meaning of the selected words, phrases, and clauses, this study uses Palmer’s theory of denotative and connotative (1976) as a theoretical basis. The source of data was from “Mockingbird” song lyric by Eminem. This st udy uses descriptive qualitative as the design of study. After analyzing the data from the lyrics, this study found that (1) some lyrics contained with connotative and denotative meaning on referring a specific object or emotion. (2) Connotative meaning of these lyric have a relation with context family relationship in Eminem's real life Keywords: Connotative, Denotative, Meaning, Lyrics. ABSTRAK Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk menganalisa sekumpulkan kata, frasa, dan klausa dalam lagu 'Mockingbird' yang dinyanyikan oleh Eminem (2004) yang memiliki makna denotatif dan konotatif, serta menemukan hubungan antara makna lagu tersebut dengan konteks kehidupan nyata sang penyanyi. Dalam menganalisa makna denotatif dan konotatif pada pilihan kata, frasa, dan klausa, penelitian ini menggunakan teori Palmer mengenai denotasi dan konotasi (1976) sebagai teori dasar. Sumber data didapatkan dari lirik lagu 'Mockingbird' oleh Eminem. Penelitian ini menerapkan desain kualitatif deskriptif. Setelah menganalisa data, penelitian ini menemukan bahwa 1) beberapa lirik mengandung makna denotatif dan konotatif yang merujuk pada objek emosi; dan 2) makna konotatif dari lirik ini memiliki hubungan dengan konteks hubungan keluarga dalam kehidupan nyata Eminem. Kata Kunci : Konotatif, Denotatif, Makna, Lirik. 1. INTRODUCTION Language has an important function in society since language is a way to interact one with the other person, especially in communication. Through language, speakers can identify themselves as well as they view their language as a symbol of their identity. And so it is with music especially music with a vocal where the speaker can send a message to another person with music. Music is a form of language which is arranged in such a way with interpolate of various instruments to produce harmony for entertain the people. Music has many types and one of them is rap music. Rap is a vocal technique that is pronounced rapidly, while the singer is called rapper. Typically, rap is accompanied by DJ or band. Rap is part of African roots before music hip-hop. Many people consider rap music to be minority music because it is considered to have no artistic value. So do Indonesians. Rap music is not part of eastern culture for rap music comes from Africa. In Indonesia the development of rap music genre is not fast as the development of pop or dangdut music genre because of the background of Indonesian culture. Rap music is considered a music that originated in the west so it does not reflect eastern culture and is identical with bold diction. In facts, this kind of music has artistic value and it has existed since decades ago. Therefore, the researcher is interested in choosing this music genre to convey to Indonesia that rap music is a genre that