I'm coming for the work and the cash in your stizzash
I scoop up the goodies and then I'm gone in a flizzash
I'm outta town before the word spread like a rizzash

from Freddie Gibbs – Fear No Evil Lyrics on Rap Genius

Gibbs here plays with the Snoop Dogg-popularized “izzle” slang. The use of that slang on record dates back to Frankie Smith’s 1981 hit “The Double Dutch Bus.” Hear the song here. Smith’s 1981 album Children of Tomorrow also contained the song “Slang Thang (Slizang Thizang),” which outlined the rules of this slang

Now take the first letter of every word
Put an “iz” behind it (Insert an “iz” behind it)
Then say the rest like it was ‘posed to be heard

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0wYLzG1mQ1M

One RG reader writes to us about his early, pre-Smith experience with the slang:

The “Izzay” talk goes back further than Double Dutch Bus, 1981. It used to be used in all kinds of children’s games in the 70s. It was just a new spin on Pig Latin. I suspect it was used primarily among African American youth

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