On BBC World Service radio chart run down it was mentioned as "Smack" and was not played. On the chart rundown, other tracks from the single release were played, and the title "Smack My Bitch Up" was not mentioned. The song was banned by the BBC and only a lyric-free version was played on Radio 1.
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The Jonny L remix was released through a free CD that came along with the January issue of Muzik magazine in 1998, while the Slacker remix was never officially released, although it surfaced on a rare and limited set of white labels. Eventually, Howlett chose the DJ Hype remix to be released on the single. Prior to the release of the single Liam Howlett was presented with three remixes of the title song, one by Jonny L, one by DJ Hype and one by Slacker. The female vocals in "Smack My Bitch Up" were performed by Shahin Badar. Keith had previously been sampled by the Prodigy in the track "Out of Space" using his spoken vocal "I'll take your brain to another dimension", this time sampled from the Ultramagnetic track "Critical Beatdown" from the 1988 album of the same name, on Next Plateau Records. The original lyrics, performed by rapper Kool Keith, are: "Switch up change my pitch up / Smack my bitch up like a pimp". The vocals are sampled and altered from the Ultramagnetic MCs song "Give the Drummer Some". The band defended the song, saying that the lyrics were being misinterpreted as misogynistic and the song actually meant ".doing anything intensely." The song led to a publicised disagreement at the 1998 Reading festival after the Beastie Boys asked the group not to play the track. The lyrics "Change my pitch up / Smack my bitch up" are repeated through the whole song, as can be heard in the sample below. The song was very controversial because its lyrics and music video were believed to promote violence against women. It was the third and final single from the album The Fat of the Land.
"Smack My Bitch Up" is a song by The Prodigy, released as the band's twelfth single on November 17, 1997.
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