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  • This study concerns on analyzing the syntactic variations of African American Vernacular English in Iggy Azalea’s selected songs, Down South, 1800 Bone, Yo El Rey, Flexin Finessin, and My World. The data were analyzed based on the theory from Wolfram (2004) in order to identify syntactic variations of African American Vernacular English and Miller (2002) in order to compare syntactic variations between African American Vernacular English and Standard English. In conducting the study, the qualitative approach was used where the data and the result of the study were presented descriptively rather than statistically. The purpose of this study were to identify syntactic variations of African American Vernacular English (AAVE), to describe the differences between syntactic variations of African American Vernacular English (AAVE) and Standard English (SE), and the last, to know which syntactic variations of African American Vernacular English were mostly used in Iggy Azalea’s selected songs. Thus, from the study, there are eight types of syntactic variations of African American Vernacular English, copula absence, Invariant be, remote been, subject-verb-non-agreement, specialized auxiliary (finna), double negations, the use of ain’t for negation, and demonstrative them. The most usage of syntactic variation of African American Vernacular English in Iggy Azalea’s selected songs is Copula absence with 12 data from 37 data. Keywords: Sociolinguistics, African American Vernacular English (AAVE), Standard English, Syntactic Variations, Iggy Azalea’s songs