Backyard Dog is a musical duo from

Manchester Manchester () is a city in Greater Manchester, England. It had a population of 552,000 in 2021. It is bordered by the Cheshire Plain to the south, the Pennines to the north and east, and the neighbouring city of City of Salford, Salford to ...

, consisting of Aniff Akinola and Lloyd Hanley. The name "backyard dog" comes from when Akinola booted Hanley out of his

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, culminating in him saying "you can't treat me like this, you're treating me like a backyard dog". Their 2001 single, " Baddest Ruffest", reached No. 15 on the

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, and was used as the

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theme, and in the films ''

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'' and ''

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''.

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Musical groups from Manchester English musical duos Male musical duos East West Records artists Ragga musicians English dance music groups {{England-band-stub