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Encyclopedia > Shizzle

Shizzle is a rap slang word for "sure", coined by E-40 and popularized by rap star (and gap band sampler) Snoop Dogg. It has been adopted by several rappers and reggae deejays and is commonly used as: "fo' shizzle" as in, "for sure", often paired with "my nizzle" as in, "my nigga". Popular West Coast rapper Snoop Dogg performing for the US Navy. ... Slang is the non-standard or non-dialectal use of words in a language of a particular social group, and sometimes the creation of new words or importation of words from another language. ... E-40 on the cover of Grit & Grind E-40 (born Earl Stevens on November 15, 1967 in Vallejo, California) a. ... Cordozar Calvin Broadus Jr. ... Rapping is one of the elements of hip hop and the distinguishing feature of hip hop music; it is a form of rhyming lyrics spoken rhythmically over musical instruments, with a musical backdrop of sampling, scratching and mixing by DJs. ... Reggae is a music genre developed in Jamaica. ... Jamaicas style of rapping that was the predecessor of todays rap/hip hop. ... -izzle is a Pig Latin-esque suffix used for hip hop slang. ... For other uses, see Nigger (disambiguation). ...


The song Double Dutch Bus, written by Frankie Smith originally spawned the use of '-izzle' as a suffix for words. While used in its purest form and true meaning as listed above, izzle as a suffix was rarely used, with exceptions occurring in a song now and then. But as the pop and rap scene were particularly successful at said point, with the origin of "wassup" near that time, the phrase became quite popular. Those who heard the phrase, not understanding its meaning, often misenterpreted it, and further spread it without fully understanding it. This word modifier has a cultural origin in black culture, but has since been adopted into the general popular lexicon, gaining widespread recognition in the UK when the hit band Gimp and the Cools released Shizzle (My Nizzle) as a mainstream R&B single. Categories: Song-to-band redirects ... Frankie Smith is a funk musician and R&B/soul song writer. ... -izzle is an English suffix used for pop-culture hip hop slang. ... Gimp and the Cools, a popular 70s R&B band released thier first big hit single, Shizzle(my Nizzle) on 14th January 1975. ...


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`Shizzle' has fizzled (811 words)
Nor was I familiar with a U.K. copyright‑infringement case from last spring where confusion over the meaning of "fo' shizzle my nizzle" and several other slang phrases led a High Court judge to declare hip‑hop lingo a foreign language and call in "experts" to decode it.
A "shizzle" search also reveals a strange fondness for hip‑hop colloquialism amongst business writers, a fact that brings to mind images of the deskbound drones from Mike Judge's Office Space escaping the dreariness of their cubicles with a constant audio diet of Ice Cube.
One hopes the turn of phrase was the work of a bored intern quietly taking the piss out of what sounds like one of the dreariest events ever convened.
www.myspace.com/shizzleno1 (1437 words)
Shizzle wanted a name that was different but also reflected his culture, The name Shizzle was chosen all because of a dance 'The Shizzle ma Nizzle' which he was really good at so every time he was seen about in the dancehalls people would chant Shizzle ma nizzle because they wanted to see the dance.
Shizzle brings a breath of fresh air to the scene as his music is aimed at every one of all ages and all cultures.
In the past Shizzle was part of a crew called East connection that were on De ja vu fm but he was soon to realized his potential as a solo artist; Shizzle decided to go at it alone.
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