How great is "No Diggity"?

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I'm listening right now and it sounds like the best song ever recorded. Anybody think of any other examples of stompin "doo-wop g-funk"?

― Tracer Hand, Friday, 13 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Pretty frickin' great. Go to my website, spongiex.pitas.com, and you'll see it ranked third in my top 100 singles of the 1990s.

― Michaelangelo Matos, Friday, 13 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Michaelangelo - are you still planning on doing that Dave Marsh-style top 1001 on your site ? I'd love to see that.

― Patrick, Friday, 13 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Quite possibly, Patrick. I'll let you know more as I think of it....

― Michaelangelo Matos, Friday, 13 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

How good is "No Diggity"? VERY, very good and its the only example of stompin' doo-wop g-funk that comes to mind for me anyways. "We be the baddest clique!!"...Whatever happened to Blackstreet and by the way what was that tune they did with Slash? I cant remember the name of it.

― Michael Bourke, Friday, 13 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

I wonder what happened to Blackstreet- No Diggity is fantastic without question, and that track they did with Ol' Dirty Bastard, Fishbone (!) and Slash (?) was alright, too.. Aside from, well, Slash.. but still.

Montell Jordan? Warren G? They don't quite have the "doo-wop" down, though.

― Bobby D. Gray, Friday, 13 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

A sonic blast of moonlight!

― Kodanshi, Friday, 13 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Godlike...but even the original pales in comparison with DJ Hype's remix of said tune.

― Omar, Saturday, 14 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

EVEN BETTER? Impossible.

Best recorded song title tonight goes to "Horse and Carriage" by Cam'ron feat. Mase.

― Tracer Hand, Sunday, 15 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

That Hype remix is fantastic. It does indeed have even more bollocks than the original. He did a pretty good (albeit similar) job on Jay-Z's "Aint no nigga" (although they re-titled it "Aint no playa" for the UK market).

The man has lost his skill on the R&B remixes though - anyone catch the tragedy that was his "Oh no" mix? Nu-skool breaks garbage...

― jacob, Tuesday, 17 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Yeah, there was an overlooked golden age of GRATE Ganja Kru R&B mixes circa 97 - the tracks from Missy's first album especially and above and beyond all the indescribably excellent remix of Mel B's "Want You Back".

Also: "No Diggity" was brilliant, yo. I also liked "Girlfriend/Boyfriend" too. FYI, Blackstreet basically folded post Finally and Teddy Riley went and reformed Guy instead - the line between the two groups tends to be a bit hazy though IMHO.

― Tim, Tuesday, 17 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Michael and Bobby: I think you're thinking of "Fix", which was a above average song in its own right, despite having the unappetizing combo of Blackstreet, Slash, Fishbone, and ODB.

― palpable, Tuesday, 17 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

fff... shudder. What's next, Tricky and Alanis Morissette?

― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 17 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

eleven years pass...

Smithers, release the hounds.

― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 14 February 2013 15:43 (eleven years ago) link

I liked this version better when sung by a singing fish:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dMQCyQzRQGQ

― MarkoP, Thursday, 14 February 2013 15:53 (eleven years ago) link

i think the medieval peasant hat the guitar player is wearing is the worst single article of clothing i've ever seen in my life

― call all destroyer, Thursday, 14 February 2013 15:55 (eleven years ago) link

^^^ this sentence alone tells me I never need to watch this video

― Ima R.A.E.D. (DJP), Thursday, 14 February 2013 16:23 (eleven years ago) link

You are correct.

― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 14 February 2013 17:44 (eleven years ago) link

I like the Chet Faker version! Not sure I want to see the video, though

― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 14 February 2013 17:45 (eleven years ago) link

This jackin house version is my favorite cover of recent times though -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hxP92JmP1KE

― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 14 February 2013 17:46 (eleven years ago) link

two years pass...

http://poly-graph.co/timeless/

― canoon fooder (dog latin), Wednesday, 26 August 2015 13:34 (eight years ago) link

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