No Diggity

"No Diggity"
Single by Blackstreet featuring Dr. Dre and Queen Pen
from the album Another Level
B-side"No Diggity - Billie Jean Remix"
ReleasedJuly 29, 1996 (1996-07-29)[1]
Recorded1996
Genre
Length
  • 5:03 (album version)
  • 4:27 (music video)
LabelInterscope
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s)
  • Teddy Riley
  • William "Skylz" Stewart
Blackstreet singles chronology
"Tonight's the Night"
(1995)
"No Diggity"
(1996)
"Get Me Home"
(1996)
Dr. Dre singles chronology
"California Love"
(1995)
"No Diggity"
(1996)
"Been There, Done That"
(1996)
Queen Pen singles chronology
"No Diggity"
(1996)
"Man Behind the Music"
(1997)
Music video
"No Diggity" on YouTube

"No Diggity" is a song by American R&B group Blackstreet as the first single for their second studio album, Another Level (1996), featuring Dr. Dre and Queen Pen. Released on July 29, 1996 by Interscope, the song reached number one on the US Billboard Hot 100 and in Iceland and New Zealand. It ended "Macarena"'s 14-week reign atop the Billboard Hot 100. In the United Kingdom, the song peaked at number nine. "No Diggity" was the final number-one single of Cash Box magazine. The track 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. It uses samples from Bill Withers's "Grandma's Hands". The music video for the song was directed by Hype Williams.

"No Diggity" ranked at number 91 on Rolling Stone and MTV's "100 Greatest Pop Songs". It was also ranked at number 32 on VH1's "100 Greatest Songs of the '90s", number 407 on Q Magazine's "1001 Best Songs Ever",[2] number 33 on Blender's "Greatest Songs Since You Were Born",[3] and number 43 on NME's "100 Best Songs of the 1990s".[4]

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  2. ^ "Q - 1001 best songs ever (2003)".
  3. ^ "Blender Magazine: Greatest Songs Since You Were Born". Blender. Archived from the original on February 20, 2008. Retrieved July 29, 2020.
  4. ^ "100 Best Songs Of The 1990s". NME. May 8, 2012. Retrieved April 2, 2020.

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