Da Muttz Concert History

In late 2000, when a Budweiser advert had everyone screaming "Wassuup," it put that expression even more into popular vocabulary. U.K. producer/writers Alez Rizzo and Elliot Ireland saw the chance for another novelty hit, called "Wassup," and released it under the name Da Muttz. This was the duo's second foray onto the pop charts. A year earlier -- at the same time as Lou Bega's "Mambo #5" -- they had scored a major international dance hit as Shaft with "Mucho Mambo," based on Rosemary Clooney's 1955 track "Mambo Italiano.