We had an iconic ’90s hit that went platinum ahead of going off the radar. Can you bet who we’re?

You could not get away their huge hit within the early 2000s that gained them a Grammy award and went triple platinum. And 25 years later, we wager you continue to comprehend it. 

The nine-member band’s well-known tune lately seemed in a Spruce Super Bowl advert for a pet-friendly weed killer this is protected for pets to smell round and play within the backyard whilst it dries. 

This reggae musical staff, which hails from the Bahamas, has greater than 25 gold and platinum awards, was once the primary Bahamians to win a Grammy in 2000 and changed into an in a single day luck with a raunchy tune about creepy males hitting on ladies. 

Do you realize who they’re? 

Need every other trace? Did somebody ever ask you the query: ‘Who let the canine out?’ 

So ‘who, who, who, who, who’ is that this? 

And what are they as much as 25 years after their spoil hit? Well, they are again within the studio and Dyson Knight (left) and Ric Carey (proper) dished to DailyMail.com all about their upcoming tasks

The Baha Men! 

And what are they as much as 25 years after their spoil hit? Well, they are again within the studio, they usually dished to DailyMail.com all about their upcoming tasks. 

All nines of the band have holed themselves up in Nassau, Bahamas – their homeland town – this week and the following to paintings on new songs, however they don’t seem to be promising an album simply but. 

‘I will’t say an album simply but, however you realize, we have now a slew of singles that we now have been striking out. We by no means in point of fact stopped,’ singer Rik Carey instructed the DailyMail.com. 

‘So we are again within the studio developing with an excellent manufacturer… We’re simply preserving it going, you realize, with the tune, doing what we like.’ 

This time round, they are having a look to include extra Bahamian taste into their sound, which incorporates goatskin drums, horns and whistles. 

‘We at all times attempt to fuse the whole thing with our native sound, which is junkanoo,’ Carey, who nonetheless is living within the Bahamas, mentioned. ‘This sound that we’re running with now’s certainly extra Bahamian culturally [and] rhythmically pushed.’ 

Fellow singer Dyson Knight instructed the DailyMail.com that they ‘like to blow their own horns’ their tradition, particularly because the Bahamas is a vacationer vacation spot. 

The band was once the first Bahamians to win a Grammy in 2000. All nines of the band have holed themselves up in Nassau, Bahamas – their local – this week and subsequent to paintings on new songs, however they don’t seem to be promising an album simply but

Their well-known tune lately seemed in a Spruce Super Bowl advert (pictured) 

‘That’s a chance to blow their own horns our tradition,’ he mentioned. 

Although 9’s a birthday celebration within the studio, they insist they adore it that approach and feature a ‘herbal chemistry’ with each and every different, as one does after greater than twenty years in combination. 

‘I may do a nice tune on my own. Ric may do a nice tune through himself, however if in case you have 9 very good musicians that come in combination to do one tune, it will sound as though 9 geniuses got here in combination to do one tune,’ Knight instructed the DailyMail.com. 

‘That’s the adaptation between us doing a solo challenge and us doing a Baha Men challenge, as a result of it is simply such a lot of good musicians coming in combination on the ones data. It makes an enormous distinction.’ 

With the sort of massive staff, they naturally to find themselves dividing into two teams: artists and entertainers. 

For Knight and Carey, they establish as artists, they usually take their time within the studio critically, running eternally to craft one thing new and lovely. 

Herschel Small, Pat Carey, and Anthony ‘Monks’ Flowers additionally fall on this class. The others, they are saying, are the entertainers who come and do as they are instructed, however in point of fact thrive on level. 

‘Others are like: “Just show me what to play, just tell me this is what you want.” Which is superb too, as a result of they do as they are instructed very, rather well,’ Knight, who joined the band in 2006, mentioned. 

‘We roughly meet within the heart, and I feel we finally end up simply getting a vibe that is authentic.’ 

Another distinction of their upcoming tune is that ‘we are simply now not making a song about dancing in those data,’ Knight mentioned. 

This time round, they are having a look to include extra Bahamian taste into their sound, which incorporates goatskin drums, horns, and whistles (pictured: the band within the Smile tune video)

‘We at all times attempt to fuse the whole thing with our native sound, which is junkanoo,’ Carey, who nonetheless is living within the Bahamas, mentioned. ‘This sound that we’re running with now’s certainly extra Bahamian culturally [and] rhythmically-driven’ 

One factor they are now not looking to do is recreate their most famed tune, Who Let The Dogs Out.  

‘If you attempt to reproduction, it does not come off authentic,’ Carey instructed DailyMail.com. ‘The tune is over 20 years outdated and it is nonetheless slapping… [but] I’ve by no means been one to wish to recreate one thing that has already created an power of its personal. 

‘We have been by no means on that complete: “Okay, we need another Who Let The Dogs Out.” If it comes up, that is nice, however we might simply at all times focal point on simply developing nice tune.’ 

‘We paintings in point of fact exhausting within the studio,’ Knight agreed. ‘We do not wish to quick trade it and be flippant in regards to the workout.’ 

If they have been to have a tune transform as a hit as Who Let The Dogs Out – which has accrued 172.45 million streams on Spotify – ‘it will be a plus,’ Knight mentioned. 

They additionally wish to supply feel-good songs, particularly among the darkish background of the sector review in recent times. 

‘There’s a struggle right here, there may be terrorists there, and individuals are getting pissed off,’ Knight instructed the DailyMail.com. ‘The artist needs folks to loosen up, the artist needs folks to reconnect with your self, together with your interior being, and understand numerous this stuff are exterior. 

‘It’s what is inner, that is what subject extra, just like the circle of relatives you spend time with that is proper in your home, the seaside that you’ll be able to stroll on, the lawn that you’ll be able to odor flora. These issues are necessary.’ 

The band needs their legacy to be proving to different ‘island boys’ that they are able to be musicians too and make it within the trade. ‘I simply need the Baha Men’s legacy to be that it’s the luck tale that claims that as a Bahamian, as a tender Caribbean individual, you’ll be able to make it in tune, you’ll be able to make it within the arts,’ Knight instructed DailyMail.com 

But it is extra than simply giving folks a cheerful tune to hear, like their newest unmarried Smile, but in addition proving to different creatives at the Bahamian islands that they, too, could make it. 

‘We’re island boys,’ Knight instructed DailyMail.com. ‘We have a 50-year tradition, we now have been the Bahamas just for 50 years. 

‘We’re very, very younger and for the Baha Men to have the world and international luck that it has is one thing that we wish to platform the message to younger artists, Bahamians, or small island folks, Caribbean people who it’s imaginable to have this stage of luck.

‘I simply need the Baha Men’s legacy to be that it’s the luck tale that claims that as a Bahamian, as a tender Caribbean individual, you’ll be able to make it in tune, you’ll be able to make it within the arts.’

The making in their hit tune

Their most well liked tune nonetheless stays Who Let The Dogs Out, adopted through Best Years Of Our Lives, which seemed in Shrek, which has 11million streams on Spotify. 

Who Let The Dogs Out was once firstly launched through Trinidadian singer Anslem Douglas underneath the identify Doggy. 

In 1999, manufacturer Steve Greenberg approached the Baha Men with the soon-to-be huge hit and Isaiah Taylor, the band’s chief, concept it was once loopy. 

Their most well liked tune nonetheless stays Who Let The Dogs Out, which has greater than 170million streams on Spotify (pictured: Who Let The Dogs Out tune video) 

‘You’ve were given to be loopy. I assumed the person was once out of his thoughts, however thank god he wasn’t,’ Taylor instructed Vice in 2021. 

Douglas recorded the tune in 1997 for a competition the following 12 months in Trinidad. The tune was once impressed through his radio DJ brother-in-law who used to invite: ‘Who let the canine out?’ when he were given house. 

When he were given within the studio with Ossie Gurley, a manufacturer, he made up our minds to make it a ‘revenge tune.’ 

‘I attempted to do a social statement as a birthday celebration tune,’ Douglas instructed Vice. ‘But the birthday celebration tune overshadowed the social statement facet of it.’ 

And he isn’t mistaken. Many could not inform you the which means in the back of the tune, which is set asking the age-old query of who let creepy males into the bar. 

Greenberg requested the Baha Men to do the tune and Taylor refused, telling him that they were not a canopy band.  

However, tragedy struck when the lead’s frontman Nehemiah Hield hand over the band and Greenberg left London Records after the corporate became down the tune. 

Rik Carey, whose dad may be within the band, stepped as much as take the lead, however he did not at all times consider within the tune. 

Despite the tune’s luck, the band is not having a look to recreate the hit. ‘If you attempt to reproduction, it does not come off authentic,’ Carey instructed DailyMail.com. ‘We have been by no means on that complete: “Okay, we need another Who Let The Dogs Out.” If it comes up, that is nice, however we might simply at all times focal point on simply developing nice tune’ 

‘Because I used to be new to the sport, I already had all this in entrance of me, so I used to be extra taken with simply getting it proper,’ Carey instructed the DailyMail.com. ‘I did not wish to disappoint the blokes. I did not wish to disappoint the lovers of Baha Men. 

‘It was once my first time in point of fact coming into one thing this large, so I did not really feel it after I did it.’ 

After the tune was once a quick luck and he discovered himself in New York City’s Central Park acting it, he discovered simply how large it in fact was once. 

‘I did not understand till most likely that second that “oh damn, this song is really that big,’ he told DailyMail.com. ‘That’s when I realized: “Okay, yeah, s**t is actual.”

‘But I had no idea in the studio, [I did] realize this song was going to be this big, man.’ 

Greenberg went on to create his own label to prove the industry wrong. He made deals with sports teams to play the song at games, such as the New York Yankees and Mets. 

From there, the song took off and the band was asked to play the song at games and other places. 

And the remainder is historical past.