Who wrote the song " who let the dogs out? "

Who wrote the song ' who let the dogs out? ' My dog would like to know, and so would I. It is a rap song and it is hugely popular.

Baha Men

the ba ha men

originally written by a rapper from Danville, VA named Chuck Smooth, who also owns a small chain of cell phone retailers called Digital Domain and One Stop Cellular

According to eJams (c 2002), which is the best answer I have found so far and which matches, to some extent other sites, the song was originally written by Anslem Douglas and Ossie Gurley under the title 'Doggie' in 1998 in the Caribbean. Chuck Smooth heard the song while vacationing in Antiqua licensed a new version under the title: 'Who Let the Dogs Out.' It debuted at #20 on Billboard's Hot Rap Singles chart in November of 1998. (see more: http://www.ejams.com/baha_men.htm )

Wikipedia cites Anslem Douglas as the original composer for Trinidad and Tobago's Carnival season of 1998. It was heard and taped on a float by hairdresser Keith from the London salon Smile, who played it for Jonathan King, who recorded it and released it under the name Fatt Jakk and the Pack of Pets.

Two sources cite Steve Greenberg as producing it with the Baha Men... after hearing it...

haha the Baha Men not that hard... if you even googled that one lol

Baha Men recorded it in 1999, a year after it was first released by Chuck Smooth.

(see Aug 27th answer, 2007)