No Diggity - Intellectual

Blackstreet member Teddy Riley was also in Wreckx-n-Effect, a new jack swing group who had the multi-platinum hit “Rump Shaker” in 1992/1993, which was produced by Teddy Riley.

Dre saw “Rump Shakers” and wanted to be in this song’s video. He relayed that message to head of Interscope Records, Jimmy Iovine, who relayed that message to Teddy Riley. Riley told Vibe:

…that was also Dr. Dre who told Jimmy, ‘I want to be in this video when Teddy does this video! Because I missed ‘Rump Shaker’ and I know Teddy is going to have some hot girls in that video.’ So Jimmy calls me back and says, ‘No Diggity’ is going to be a big record. Dre wants to be in the video.’ And I’m telling him, ‘Well, Dre can’t be in my video unless he raps on the song.’ Because I had been trying to get a Death Row artist on one of my songs for a long time. But Suge Knight (former notorious Death Row head) would not let a Death Row artists be on my album unless we paid him $50,000 and joined his label. And that’s how Dre got on ‘No Diggity.’

Pen’s crew (clique) are the hardest bad girls around.

Back in the 90’s there was another popular “Kliq” in the mainstream…

They even had their own ‘Bad Guy’

Simply put, you just can’t stop thinking about them because of how much you care for them. And you probably should act on this desire, so long as you’re sure you’re not coercing them into doing things against their wishes.

As long as I’ve got credibility as a producer, I’ll never be empty-handed.

Even though Teddy Riley is technically a member (and founder) of Blackstreet, Dre most likely drops his name separately since Teddy produced the track. Also to be noted is the next line where he refers to “Rump Shaker”, a hit Teddy had before Blackstreet fame.

Dre begins his verse with an allusion to film, where fading to black is often used as a dramatic transition. Here, he replaces black with Blackstreet.

This began as an older song—“I Like the Way You Work It,” a cut off their self-titled debut album. Riley tapped LL Cool J to come remix that original song, and he was the one to inadvertently to come up with the lyric “no diggity, no doubt.”

Teddy Riley told the story on Lorna’s Corner:

We got the single from a song that we did called “I Like the Way You Work” which was on the last album. We wanted to just take it to another level—because we felt like there was just something that wasn’t there. But it was a great hook. So we add on “no diggity, I got to bag it up.” It was also part of a remix we were supposed to do for “I Like the Way You Work” and it was done with LL Cool J. He was saying “I like the way you work, kid, no diggity”—you know, as a rap. We just said ‘we wanna make this into a song.’ And we did that.

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She’s talking about luxury shades worn by her girlfriend. This is probably Queen Pen’s first but not last hint to her sexual lifestyle which at the time was considered taboo.

The word “Playettes” here, refers to a female version of the word Player, something the Urban Dictionary refers to as “Usually a boy who makes you feel special. He makes you feel like the only girl in his life, when really you are just one of 100.”

A shoutout to playettes foreshadows some of what the song is about a little later on

There’s a double entendre here. “You don’t even know the half of it” and other variations of the phrase mean “You have no idea,” as in “You have no idea how sexy she is.” But a “half” is also a half-ounce of weed, continuing the theme of comparing their sexuality to smoking out.

Word is bond means you’re telling the truth, in comparison, faking moves or otherwise not telling the truth is not what Queen Pen does

While there is no shortage of rap lyrics about men attracting women (or, indeed, music in general), Dr. Dre had a particular reputation as being charming, which got him into trouble in a number of incidents, as he also has had a problematic history of violence against women.

Dr. Dre discusses history of abuse towards women: "I was out of my fucking mind" - NME — NME Music News, Reviews, Videos, Galleries, Tickets and Blogs | NME.COM

Dr Dre has discussed his history of assault and abuse towards women, stating that he "was out of [his] fucking mind." Dre's violent assault of former television show host Dee Barnes was detailed in a 1991 Rolling Stone article.

Teddy Riley told Vibe:

I wanted the song to start with ‘Shorty get down…’ And then I thought, ‘Well, can we add the words Good Lord to the track?’ I’m like, ‘Man, it’s sounding like a gospel record.’ [laughs] So we came up with, ‘Shorty get down, good Lord, she got it working all over town…’

She’s a playette so like players
she’s not gonna catch feelings/fall for anyone.

Queen Pen is using Teddy Riley as a middleman to tell fellow Blackstreet member Chauncey Black what the deal is.

This line can act as a double entendre:

“No diggity, I got to bag it up”

Can mean: ‘No doubt, I have to put on a condom’. Meaning for sure, he’s down to fuck.

“Bag it up” can be slang for cuffing a chick – You make her your (kinda) girlfriend a la buying groceries.

Teddy Riley’s cowriter and coproducer on this track—William Stewart—came up with this line.

What does it mean when someone says something is their forte?
a person’s strong suit, or most highly developed characteristic, talent, or skill; something that one excels in: So she excels in getting paid.

A common trope in hip-hop music, Queen Pen is saying that whoever is listening can’t judge her because they don’t actually know her.
In addition, she is subverting expectations by assuming the traditionally male role of aggressive rapper in a song about females.

A reference to Gwen Guthrie’s 1986 R&B hit, “Ain’t Nothin' Goin' On but the Rent.”