This paper explores code switching as a sociolinguistic medium in Darey Art Alade's songs. The thesis examines why code switching is deployed in the selected songs. Moreover, against the belief that the utilisation of code switching is a sign of language deficiency or incompetence in either of the languages under use, this work affirms that code switching is employed as a strong sociolinguistic tool to achieve some purposes, it is a deliberate language choice by language users to achieve a particular goal, for instance: to communicate meaning; for identity brand, to accommodate more audience, for cultural reasons- to communicate a certain culture to the world. The linguistic data is selected purposefully using two popular songs from Darey Art Alade in which code switching is utilized. Consequently, the motivation for the study is to demonstrate that code switching enables second language users to be creative in their use of languages. The deployment of code switching for some effects reflects the multilingual nature of Nigeria.
