Abstract Lyrical ingenuity has been influential in the rise and global spread of hip hop. This has extended to Nigerian hip hop artists, who battle for supremacy and relevance on the airwaves. In carving a niche for itself, Nigerian hip hop has appropriated globalised elements from its American counterpart, while simultaneously accentuating elements of domestication. The result is a hybridised variant, as is significantly foregrounded in the lyrics of Nigerian hip hop. The study presented here, which is text-based, analyses twenty selected Nigerian hip hop lyrics with a focus on its lyrical creativity. Relying on critical linguistic stylistics as a theoretical framework, the paper’s overarching concern is the foregrounding of the creative use of language, particularly with regard to functional conversion, neologism, lexical regeneration or extension of meaning, and syntactic ingenuity. These realisations, alongside influences from indigenous oral traditions, are significant in the propagation of the ‘glocal’ – that is, a blend of the global and the local – Nigerian hip hop variety.

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利用广播中的诗歌：在尼日利亚嘻哈歌词中挪用语言创造力

摘要 抒情的独创性对嘻哈的兴起和全球传播产生了影响。这已经扩展到尼日利亚嘻哈艺术家，他们在电波上为至高无上和相关性而战。在为自己开辟一个利基市场的过程中，尼日利亚嘻哈从其美国同行那里汲取了全球化元素，同时强调了驯化元素。结果是一种混合变体，正如尼日利亚嘻哈的歌词中所显着的那样。此处介绍的基于文本的研究分析了 20 首精选的尼日利亚嘻哈歌词，重点是其抒情创意。该论文以批判语言文体学为理论框架，主要关注语言创造性使用的前景，特别是在功能转换、新词、词汇的再生或意义的延伸，以及句法的独创性。这些认识，加上土著口头传统的影响，对“全球本地”（即全球和本地的混合）尼日利亚嘻哈音乐的传播具有重要意义。