“No Diggity” is a song by Blackstreet featuring Dr. Dre and Queen Pen in her first recorded appearance.

It sold 1.6 million copies in 1996, and won the 1998 Grammy Award for Best R&B Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals. The track incorporates multiple samples of Bill Withers' 1971 hit “Grandma’s Hands.”

Teddy Riley, the esteemed R&B producer and Blackstreet member, was the driving force behind the song. He cowrote and coproduced the track with William “Skylz” Stewart. Riley talked about developing the sound with Stewart in Vibe:

How I came about ‘No Diggity’ it was myself and Will Stewart… It came in where I heard Will with that sample working on the MPC in the B room of Future recording studios. And I said give me that sample. He brought it in the room and I put that sample in Logic…After I finished making the track, Will came in and was like, ‘This record is a smash. But what do you want to write to it?’

The lyrics came out of an older song. Riley revisited “I Like the Way You Work It” from Blackstreet’s debut album. LL Cool J did a verse intended for that track’s remix, and came up with “no diggity, no doubt.” Riley decided to make that into its own song. He had a hard time recruiting the rest of the group to record the track. He did the first verse (the second verse in this version of the song) to get the group on board. His friend had to convince Jimmy Iovine, head of Interscope that the song was worth doing.

This beat was also the original “Toss It Up” by 2Pac, but as soon as Dre left Death Row, he took it with him, and Pac was forced to remix the beat for All Eyez On Me.