Completely uncool adult checking in here. I saw an ad for Snoop Dogg’s new album “Paid tha cost ta be tha Boss” and he was saying some completely unintelligible. And now he is going to be starting a TV show with MTV called: “Doggy Fizzle Televizzle” or something like that? Hunh?
What is that - is it basically a variant of Pig Latin or Double Dutch?
How does it work?
Nah, it’s just made up jibberish.
Rappers like to make up rhyms (sp?), unfortunately not everything rhyms, so they have to make up their own words.
Well, the -izzle part it just a continuation of intentional misproununciation of the “er” sound.
The progression sort of went like this:
1980s - “Fer sure”
1990s = “For sheezee”
2000s - “For shizzle”
This has been asked several times before (Here’s the most recent one, I believe). Long story short: it’s an old street slang convention (dating back to at least the 1970s), resurrected in the early 1990s by Snoop Dogg (at the time he was Snoop Doggy Dogg) – most famously on his album “Doggystyle” and the song “Da Shiznit.” Another variation kids sometimes use is “ub” talk, whereby you stick “ub” in the middle of words instead of “iz.”
Your nizzle,
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