Rianna, Flora, Carol & Sanel

Rihanna G4L lyrics

Verse

I lick the gun when I’m done, ‘cause I know that revenge is sweet

This is the gang; ladies thing

Any mother f*cka wanna disrespect…

Got this girls like a soldier

Chorus

You know I’m down, I’m down for life, load it and reload it, let’s go

Gangsta for life

Till the day that I die

I promise im standing by

‘Cause you know that im down

Gangsta for life

Verse

Nigga, we don’t play, no

The opening of the lyrics immediately tells the audience what the song is going to be about

The power of a woman and it’s for the ladies (people/women in a situation of getting revenge on someone)

This is showing Rihanna as a brave, powerful woman, trying to put across that it is not just men that are strong and ‘soldiers’.

Giving us an image of the gun

Reveals how she wants to be portrayed

Shows that she is not playing; a serious situation

Rianna, Flora, Carol & Sanel

Girls come on, we aint done got a lot to handle,

we aint took over the world yet

We’re an army, better yet a navy

Better yet crazy guns in the air

Guns in the air

Guns in the air

We got our guns in the mother f*cking air

I lick the gun when I’m done

Cause I know that revenge is sweet

Repeated at the beginning and end to finish the song; to create the effect of what it means.