Figurative Language in Hip Hop

“God's a seamstress who tailor fitted my pain”

• simile

• metaphor

• hyperbole

“Yo, if rap gets jealous, words that were admitted // I used to be a public enemy, don't forget it”

• metaphor

• personification

• alliteration

“Streets on click clock. Eighty grand just to see the Jacob go tick tock.”

• onomatopoeia

• hyperbole

• personification

I'm blowin' up like you thought I would -Notorious BIG, "Juicy" is an example of...

• alliteration

• hyperbole

• personification

"I got a grill they call penny candy, you know what that means. It look like Now and Laters, gum drops, jelly beans" -Nelly, Grillz is an example of...

• metaphor

• simile

• personification

"I'm the bomb like tick tick..." - Lil Wayne is an example of

• oxymoron

• idiom

• onomatopoeia

"Big bag bussin' out the Bentley Bentayga" - Cardi B, "Up" is an example of...

• oxymoron

• simile

• alliteration

"I was tangled up in your drastic ways" -Juice WRLD, "Lucid Dreams" is an example of ...

• simile

• metaphor

• idiom

"His palms are sweaty, knees weak, arms are heavy

There's vomit on his sweater already, mom's spaghetti

He's nervous, but on the surface he looks calm and ready" - Eminem, "Lose Yourself" is an example of...

• imagery

• personification

• hyperbole

New York City, please go easy on me tonght - Fivio Foreign, Kanye West, Alicia Keys "City of Gods" is an example of...

• personification

• hyperbole

• imagery