Teenage slang "schiznick/shiz" (= great, cool)--Query

[Grant Barrett]

You'll usually find it spelled as "shiznit." It's from the same
language well as foshizzle and hizzouse. The izz infix might go back to
jazz, but as far as I can take it back is the 1985 album "UTFO" by UTFO
which features the song "Roxanne Roxanne" which includes several lines
of this speech.

http://www.seeklyrics.com/lyrics/UTFO/Roxanne-Roxanne.html

I don't be in no casino, and baby while you knizzow
The izzi is the grizzeat Kizzangizzo.'
[...]
Then crizzi to gizzone and seen number izzone
Crizzin ricking tizza of mizzac mic dizza

But I would guess Snoop Dog is the more recently popularizer.

On Feb 3, 2004, at 21:16, Gerald Cohen wrote:

> A former student just sent me an e-mail about a new teenage-slang
> term I had never heard of. Is anyone else familiar with it? Might
> anyone know its etymology?