Rappers React To The Prodigy "Smack My B***H Up"!!!
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- On this segment of Rappers React, Smokey and Hollywood go in the deep waters and check out "Smack My B Up" by The Prodigy!!!. Any suggestions, send them our way!!!
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We wanted to watch the video for this one yall but youtube said "NOPE"!!!
Shame, the video really turns this song on it's head. I remember watching the premier on Channel 4
Yup that video was banned all over the world haha
Thanks for answering that. It’s pretty lame that they let the video exist for viewing, but then they don’t let you show it. I’m curious if they would allow the Queens of the Stone Age video “Smooth Sailing”. That one depicts a night of debauchery. That song is kind of a deeper cut, so it’s a mystery. 😁
Yeah was wondering why you were listening and not watching.... Lol but honest.... Either is good .... Video is just so different lol
The sample of “change my pitch up, smack my b1tch up” is from Give The Drummer Some by ULTRAMAGNETIC MC’S - legendary 80’s Hip Hop crew, the line is by Kool Keith.
I’m definitely a metal head but Prodigy is an exception. Can’t deny the energy of the music. Them and Massive Attack.
Same. Early Chemical Brothers for me too. First album, basically.
It's the triphop genre that is often used in or very close to some alt metal and numetal tracks. Triphop is vibes.
Prodigy is a band that unites metal heads, rockers, edm heads, and rap fans.
England was in fusion during the 90's musically
Same with you I’m a big metal head I even were a slipknot mask but the prodigy and gorillas is a big exception
Prodigy got plenty of cred with the metal community and would often be on the lineup at metal concerts.
Indeed. I was a metal head who bought their albums.
They’re like if you made a metal band do edm
The Prodigy is the metal of electronic music
Atari Teenage Riot is the punk of electronic music
Last time I saw them live (2015) they played with Rotting Christ and Judas Priest. Awesome times man!
@@lavenderllamamusic Totally, the first thing that came to mind the first time i heard Atari Teenage Riot's "SPEED" was holy shit, this is cyberpunk.
The Prodigy & Atari Teenage Riot should have been in Cyberpunk 2077
"Change my pitch up, smack my bitch up" is a sample from the late 1980's track "Give The Drummer Some" by legendary rapper Kool Keith's former band the Ultramagnetic MC's. Kool Keith then did the track "Diesel Power" with the Prodigy on this same album "Fat of the Land". You really should check that one out next, you'll love it! Saw the Prodigy live around 5 times during the 90's. They always put on an intense live show and the crowd were always nuts! RIP Keith Flint.
Love Diesel Power
Hands down my favorite track from FotL is Diesel Power
Diesel Power is the shit. I really hope they check it out
A bit different but have any of you guys listened to Add N to X? Great analog duo, especially the Black Regent song.
“change my pitch up, smack my bitch up, like a pimp” - hell yeah if i’m not mistaken that song was in one of the GTA games 👍
Fun fact, this song won for best dance video and best breakthrough video on the MTV Video awards waaaaaay back in the day (like 96 or 97) despite the video being banned on MTV for a variety of legitimate reasons that have nothing to do with the lyrics.
The video is a complete and total mind trip. Especially at the end.
Wild boy was a girl actually.
Great video
Song is about "smack" and having fun while on it.
people need to stop spreading that lie, MTV played it, just at night rather than daytime
@@skurinski true they did play it after midnight, but eventually it did get banned. It really was a remarkable video.
Next Prodigy song to check out should definitely be "No Good (Start the Dance)", another huge banger.
Claustrophobic sting and Their law before that. 😁
One of my Favs!
I agree 👍 start the dance is savage
The first time I noticed Prodigy was on MTV with the music video to “No Good”. That would be great!
I agree that should be next! "No Good" is my favorite! I turned it up at home a while ago and my 8- year old and my 3-year old were dancing with me 😀
You ain’t heard this until you are in middle of an 90,000 crowd and Prodigy doing the damm thing live, the drop after the middle breakdown when the woman is singing 🤯
True
Biggest mosh pit I've ever been in was during this monster.
🙌🙌
You haven't heard it unless you heard it in a proper car sound system
@@BobbyDeniroX lol I'm sure hearing it live in an arena trump's a car Soundsystem
Edit : and I have on six occasions the bass rattles every bone in your body
No dudes, as a woman who loves this song, you need the original video for context as there’s a massive twist. This isn’t a gratuitous song condoning domestic violence at all
go to Afghanistan baby
Oh man! The 90's ! Drink, drugs, and now 20 years later I don't remember anything about it! 😆♥️🤘
Would you wanna remember, I wouldn't, peace
The nineties are a myth didn't happen as i remember history it went from 1989 and then hello 2000s or was i drunk?
Another thing Cuzz Nice to see you represent LORD LEMMY KILMISTER AND MOTORHEAD BEST YOU REACT TO MOTORHEAD LIVE AT WACKEN OPEN AIR FESTIVAL (OVERKILL) POSSIBLY THE GREATEST ROCK N ROLL SONG EVER AND ONE OF THE BEST LIVE RECORDINGS EVER 🤘👍 WICKED FUCKING WICKED oh yeah CITY NEWTON BOMBERS LIVE AT GALATOS LOOKING PRETTY GOOD FOR THE NEW YEAR and THE GUN'S OF NEWTON
Three old ladies sitting on a park bench seat when a flasher steps in front of them and flash's them the first old lady had a stroke and the second old lady had a stroke BUT THE THIRD poor old lady couldn't reach
Realest comment ever...... What happened in the 90's, stays in the 90's.
The original video was such a shock fest for people at the time because all you can see is the POV of the camera, and then the reveal at the end says it all. It’s a song about self harm, let’s just say. They could only show it after certain hours. RIP Keith. My favorite by Prodigy is Diesel Power. It’s a banger. And... do I have to request The Chemical Brothers or The Crystal Method, now? Keep hope alive, y’all
I remember seeing it for the first time on MTV back in the day. They had a disclaimer before they played the video. It was after midnight. Blew my mind.
Fuck yeah to the crystal method and chem bros I remember this time was around 9 and turned to this music along with Rammstein. I want to see them react to trip like I do
"My only memories of the 90's are flashbacks" -- Eddie Vedder
I hope you get around to reacting to "Diesel Power" off this same album. Full of bars, Kool Keith goes off on it and can't wait to hear you break it down.
Most definitely Diesel Power yo
The Fat of the Land is full of awesome songs. Almost every song I knew from this guys is on that album…. Pure fire
Diesel Power and Minefields are my 2 favorites
@@ayearinthelifeofanxietyjoe4413 the whole album is a banger from start to finish tbf. I love how the end of Narayan mixes into Firestarter, sounds proper deep on decent headphones.
@@nicolasfracchia have you heard Baby's Got A Temper? It came out around the same time they released The Fat Of The Land and The Prodigy presents... The Dirt Chamber Sessions Volume 1.
Gotta admit, this songs amazing, it's on my regular running play list.
The official music video is absolutely unhinged, banned on mtv for real for... a lotta reasons, but it's worth watching to get the context of the song and the time period. Might make for a good patreon video?
THIS!!
right here
The lyrics are "Change my pitch up, smack my b**** up"
It's a sample from 'Give The Drummer Some' by Ultramagnetic MC's - an oldskool hiphop crew who Liam Howlett was a BIG fan of.
There's probably no further context other than Liam thought it was a cool sample!
Jim Pavloff did a amazing recreation with all the samples used a few years back here for anyone interested:
czcams.com/video/eU5Dn-WaElI/video.html
I remember back in the 90s my cd player had a bass boost button and I would absolutely blast this song on it lol
Tread lightly? Who is saying to tread lightly? god I am so tired of these people trying to ruin great things and put negative connotations on them.
The song is not about a man beating on a woman, it’s not about DV against women.
The saying is essentially meaning when you pump yourself up, get yourself hyped, doing something intensely, you are smacking your own bitch up, like when a boxer psychs himself up before a fight or when you get yourself pumped up and ready to let loose the dance moves at a rave.
People need to chill out and stop ruining good things that are harmless but attaching negativity to them where it’s not justified
Well said.
If people actually watched the video they would see the twist at the end.
Saying that tho you are right, it’s not really about smacking anyone.
@@shifterbbr1986 exactly, nobody talks about the fact it’s actually a woman who is doing it, maybe that’s deliberate, for ideological reasons or they just don’t watch that far, they are easily triggered and switched it off.
I think the music video is very clever because it plays into the narrative that it’s men who are the perpetrators and it holds a mirror up to those people in a metaphorical way and a literal way.
If I remember correctly the music video was a deliberate poke at those who made assumptions about the song being about man beating women, which it never was, so in response, when they made the video they chose to make it as those people perceived so they would be watching it saying, see, I told you, it’s about a man beating on women but then the last laugh was on them because it turns out that it was actually a woman, making the point that even if it was about beating on a woman, it doesn’t automatically mean it is a man doing it, it could just as easily be a woman. It was actually really well done, I do sadly still to this day hear people say that they can’t believe they would make a music video of a man beating on women etc
It was banned for a multitude of reasons including depiction of drug use, graphic nudity, sex, driving under the influence, hit and run, violence, vandalism and wait for it, misogyny after feminists complained it was misogynistic proving they clearly hadn’t watched the video and just went of the name of the song and so proving the point The Prodigy were making with the video and that was back then so it’s no surprise to me at all in this day and age that you would get people saying tread carefully or still trying to place negative connotations on to it. When did kids stop transitioning from children to adults, it’s like the world is full of adults who never grew out of being children.
If WWI had kicked off 100 years after later than it did, we would be F*cked
I thought the same thing lol
At the time this came out, 'smack my bitch up' was slang in parts of England for have a good time. There isn't often a deep meaning to the Prodigy's lyrics, it's just fire music to bop to. Keith Flint and Maxim Reality (the black dude) were/are vocalists and dancers, all the music is done by the other guy, whose name I can't remember.
Liam Howlett
Liam Howlett is the DJ and main songwriter. Keith was brought in as a dancer initially. Liam has said it's not got a hidden meaning. He said it's just saying 'do anything intensely' and it's often misinterpreted. It won many awards and is still appearing in movies and videogames to this day.
Master H 🔥🤘
He is indeed a DJ, but only in his spare time (he has a pretty good DJ album, which was a solo project, but he released it as a record by The Prodigy). In The Prodigy, he is the producer and he plays synths live. He hasn't got turntables in his setup with The Prodigy.
You obviously have to watch the original video, not show it because you can't have that video on CZcams (you have to make a google search for it and you will find it) but the video is PURE AWESOMENESS... the music by itself doesn't have much lyrics to analise like you saw, but paired up with the video it goes to the next level!
The 80s teenage me would never believe rappers in the future would be wearing Venom & Motothead t shirts
🎶🎧💙🎧🎶 I was so excited to hit play on this video! "Change my pitch up" is something a DJ does. There's a knob on the mixer to play with the pitch. Watching y'all jam to this totally made my day! P.L.U.R.R from ATX!!
Saw them live last week in Amsterdam. Still going strong. Even without Keith flint. I do miss him. He committed suicide in 2019. The concert was great. An ode to him. They're a live act. Prodigy 90s and prodigy 2000s are very different. Dance beatz 90s, electronic rock later on. They're touring again after his dead. Would love more reactions videos about prodigy.
DO DIESEL POWER! Being rap fanatics you'll love this song from the prodigy!
Ik heb ze gemist! Hoop dat ze dit jaar weer komen. Heb ze al 3 keer live gezien
Tool and prodigy are my top two favorite of all time!!!
And prodigy live is EPIC unbeatable in there department!!!
If you want more Prodigy fire, I strongly suggest "Warrior's Dance (Uncut)", great dance track, awesome video, 100% The Prodigy!!!
The actual video for this song is absolutely amazing.
You have to see the video, to fully appreciate the track.
When you have seen them live and felt the music vibrate through you. it's one of my best ever memories x
I remember being in Middle school when this Fire album came out!!! From start to finish its FIRE!!!!!
I am a feminist and I love this song. And I truly appreciate how much you guys get into the music.
It's "Change my pitch up", not "Change my picture" - in other words, make me hyper, get me up. And it sounds like that's exactly what the music did to you!
Chris Rock: Wow, it was a G I jane joke
Song: Smack my bitch up
🤣🤣🤣
🤣🤣🤣
This album would have to be the sound track to one of the best years of my life. ❤🔥
You HAVE to watch the official video. 😳 The song isn't about what you think...it's about going full-tilt
Oh man, this song's official music video should almost be mandatory. They got a ton of push back about the word in the song. The music video was their response... made people think.
I just discovered your channel and I love your spontaneous and natural reactions.
Keep it up!
Morning! I really like the prodigy! Great tunes! Seen the video once but they had a bunch of it blurred out lol....loved y'all's reaction to this! Thanks guys!❤️🤓
OMG this is so much fun, takes me back to the day, tore the shit out of the dancefloor with this stuff..... here i was thinking 'it's nice to see you boys doing something more in your wheelhouse' then Hollywood pulls out the 'I thought Maynard was going to sing pyscopathy... :) :)
"tread lightly" is an understatement for a video that was BANNED from MTV lol also the guy who did the vocals on this is named maxim, keith flint was the dude with the double spiked mohawk whos the one who died
Actually, the vocals are sampled and the vocalist is Kool Keith from the Ultramagnetic MCs. He was also sampled on many other tracks by The Prodigy, such as Out Of Space, You'll be Under My Wheels, We Live Forever, and he provided the vocals for Diesel Power and Wake Up Call.
Yo you should of done the reaction with the official video,it's terrific!!
Changes the whole buzz,then listening to it watching a still photo
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I think the video is banned, but I agree that it's important to see it while hearing the song. Maybe they can check it out off camera.
@@Reani71 the video is completely banned on CZcams.
Another Hollywood dance party. 😁. I really enjoyed this. Definitely a good workout song. Have a good one everybody!
Oh yes.
The deepest bass on the Fat of the land album.
Brilliant track,also the best one.
I never get tired of The Prodigy, love your reaction and it's kinda sweet that you're so worried about the context 😉 would love your reaction to "Diesel Power" "Funky Shit" "Climbatize" but really the entire Fat of the Land album is fire!!
This song just HITS.
This one clinched a subscribe. It's an absolute shame you couldn't react to the video as it takes the song to an entirely different level. That aside, the evolution of Prodigy from a straight dance and big beat band to incorporating electropunk and metal elements was amazing. Too many great hits to list and their influence is still heard today. MORE OF THIS! RIP Keith...
It's been 20 years since I went to a rave and this kind of song gets me in the mood!
And dude yes you can get triggered with music!
This is on my bucket list. Im seeing them nxt yr. when they tell ppl to get down and drop the lyric as ppl then raise from the floor. To trash talkers you have to review this on a live session. Omg the energy.
This song is fire and hits so hard! I remember the rave days with the parachute pants. Went to a lot in Charlotte. So many different clubs....Mythos, Midnight til 6, Scorpios, Ibiza, Club 2000. Even had a couple of Flavors at the Charlotte Hornets Traning Facility. Sadly, never saw Prodigy but I do love their style. ❤️🤘
Charlotte in the 90s, lol. Ever go to The Pterodactyl?
Love.
The reveal at the end got me first time watching for sure :-)
Great song for this morning happy Monday my dudes
Liam is the producer and the other two are MCs Keith and Maxim!
The trash talkers looking like the Thrash talkers today😄 Loving the shirts guys
Me, age 24, July 1st 1997, the day this album dropped. Co-worker of mine carpools myself and another from the office. The car is a new Q4 with a Bose sound system. The friend from the office unwraps the cd and asks to load it up. This track plays. The car stays in the office parking lot. Does not go anywhere. The driver is dumbfounded. The track ends and goes into Breathe. All three of us are just motionless in disbelief. Mind blown.
Music so slamming that you forget how to drive.
YEESSS!!!
Blowing people up with those glow sticks back in the day, my friend!!
from what i recall when this was released, there was a kickback to the lyric and the band essentially responded with it was an off the cuff rhyme to "change my pitch up" and they just ran with it. They didn't really intend anything with it.
There's some awesome triphop bands from this era, Trickie, Portishead, Massive Attack, Goldie (though that was more towards drum and bass), they all collabed at various points. Prodigy wise, transcending outer space was cool, Voodoo people is another grimy dope track
Climbatize off this album is straight up perfection…!!!! Rest in power keef ❤️
Great band, opened my eyes for electronic music as well, as I recall most rockers/ skaters/ punks dug them 👍
Any time I've ever heard this song was at a Club or Rave. I've never cared about a meaning to this song. Some tunes are meant to dance and enjoy with other folks around.
This song is future proof...
I still get chills when the woman's vocals come on, that chanting is like otherworldly lol
Seeing them live was amazing considering they roared on stage on bikes and delayed axel rose.
It was hilarious and awesome :D
Loved your genuine presence and opinions. added a lot of value. Please react to no good by the prodigy . Greetings from Turkey
Freakin love you guys!!!♥️♥️♥️
Two Rappers, one with a Venom T-Shirt, the other one with one from Motörhead !
Love it !
Keep on rocking !!!!
You guys well and truly need to watch the video for this, even if it's just in your own time to spare a strike on the channel. It makes the song hit a lot differently.
Great song and t shirts
The deeper meaning is in the original video
My 7yr old son went to his Catholic primary school singing this classic in the playground needles to say we had a phone call 😂😂😂
You guys don't get it😂...I saw this album LIVE in a stadium in 1997 when this first dropped.Literally nobody in the crowd had heard anything but firestarter.When I heard this and breathe,I almost had a fit.Prodigy was at the height of their superpowers and that mosh pit was absolutly insane.This song is different in a crowd of 50,000 people
You need to go earlier with Prodigy. No Good (Start the Dance), Out of Space and Charly are absolute stone cold rave CLASSICS, and that's coming from a lifelong metalhead. Those tracks, anything from the Music For A Jilted Generation album really, blow this later stuff OUT OF THE WATER, and that is no dig at what you've heard cuz I love them too.
The whole Jilted Generation album!!
Go to The Prod gig and this starts and the place goes mental. I'm a metalhead at heart but love The Prodigy
"Voodoo people" will always be my favorite by the prodigy
Dude! Love that Motorhead shirt!!!pretty cool
This tune is timeless
This brings me back lol. Another great one of theirs is "breath"
Been done did czcams.com/video/KgDUJUlzyyE/video.html
I spent my youth thinking it was "Change my picture" and was really surprised to find out it was actually "Change my pitch up!"
That took me back. 🔥🔥
This is full on memories of my youth!!! Also.. I was in LOVE with Keith Flint 🥰 RIP
The video for this is legendary.. utter club banger that got the metallers moshing hard every time we played it in the clubs
One of the best live shows I’ve seen at the big day out here in Sydney
I need more vids from you i watch them all without exception you should be on alot more subs if there is justice in this world
The first time the video ever aired on MTV, Kurt Loder came on air and gave a parental advisory/legalese spiel per what you were about to see. Never saw that before or since.
... just for your private consideration (or what ever, do it here) Treat yourselfs the official clip to this gem and prepare for the flip at the the end. peace ...
This is the first song i played when i got my upgraded stereo in my first car. Epic bass.
I saw prodigy at download 2006/2007 and it’s still one of the most crazy experiences I’ve had
I remember when I first saw this video uncensored in the A.M. times on MTV and I recorded it on VHS
love everything by The Prodigy seen them twice live i so need you to react to break and enter my go that tune boooomed outa my car
It was so f!@$%^g great to be a teenager in the 90s. Be at The Prodigy gig, hear Smack my b!@$h up live for the first time, that was something to experience :).
REALITY CHECK FOR EVERYONE: The video is on Prodigy's channel here on CZcams. If nobody (since the MTV days) is cancelling Prodigy or the song and CZcams isn't banning the actual song from the platform, nobody's going to cancel you just for listening to it. I mean, if you were cheering on the idea of beating women as you listened to it, then yeah, you'd get some flak but nobody's coming after you just for listening to a song that's still available everywhere AND is one of the band's biggest hits.
TL;DR: No one's getting second-hand cancelled when the original isn't even cancelled.
Also, lots of reaction channels have reacted to this. Everybody's fine. All these people who are acting like you're gonna get charged with some sort of thought-crime just for letting this song enter your ears and enjoying the beat are WAY overreacting. It ain't that serious.
And finally, the band themselves have said multiple times that the song isn't about hitting women. The original sample from Kool Keith was "Change my pitch up / smack my b**** up like a pimp" but the Prodigy reinterpreted the line into a song about going hard in everything you do. In that sense, the B in question is your own inner B that needs a kick in the ass to rise to the occasion. Either way, there are many interviews where the band has laughed at Americans misinterpreting the meaning of the song and getting all up in arms about it.
E.g:
- Liam told Q magazine in 2009: "The Americans picked up on it and wanted to make out it was a song about violence. We thought we'd have a laugh with it and set out to make an extreme video. That's the one time we thought we'd be controversial."
- On the subject of the Beastie Boys asking them not to play the song because it "promoted violence against women," Liam said, "I loved the Beastie Boys, so I was disappointed at the time. I'd still love to do a tune with Ad Rock and I was gutted when I heard about MCA passing away. It was Americans not understanding our Britishness."
- Asked about the controversial title and lyric, Liam told Seven Years of Plenty in 1998 that in part it stemmed from gangsta rap acts like the Ultra-Magnetic MCs and Schoolly D with "on the edge" lyrics that he used to enjoy listening to.
- He also said that he was inspired by the furor in the newspapers when "Firestarter" came out ("Ban this sick fire record"). "I thought this time I might as well really give them something to write about," Howlett said.
Only thing I found on their channel is this live performance
czcams.com/video/WDmUd8qyJOI/video.html
Dude, the video clip for this song is banned on CZcams full stop. No it’s not on the official channel, and yes they would get a takedown notice if they showed it
@@ocat1979 When I said "video," I meant it in CZcams terms, not the MV. The audio for the song, like everything on YT, is posted as a video file and that's on Prodigy's actual channel. I used a term that was unintentionally unclear and that's my bad but the point still stands: Hollywood and Smokey were going in worried that just listening to the song was going to get them in trouble and debated whether they should dance to the beat if they enjoyed it. That's what I meant when I said people are overreacting. The song's everywhere including on the official channel, the band isn't cancelled (even MTV only banned the video, not the band), and nobody's getting cancelled for listening to the song and enjoying it.
All that being said, I just watched the video again to refresh myself and the controversy around it is stupid. I mean, obvs, you couldn't show all the nudity and relatively graphic POV sex on MTV but the "problematic" parts are the bits where the POV character drunkenly paws several women as they walk by in the club. The advances are unwanted, the women react with disgust, and that's obviously not the way to treat people... but it's a depiction of a drunk, drugged-up person going CRAZY on a night out and being an a-hole to literally EVERYONE, male and female. It's not a celebration of forcing yourself on or hurting women. I mean, the dudes in the video get brutally beaten down... but that isn't what people are talking about when talking about why the video is a problem. It was the POV character grabbing a woman's boob on the way by or trying to kiss a random woman who ended up pushing them pretty much immediately away.
TBH, I think it's just the lyric combined with the visual that got it banned. If the same video (minus the nudity and POV sex) had instead been set to a Radiohead song people would've called it artistic. If it was set to a Motley Crue song about partying hard or the trials and tribulations of Nikki Sixx's drug addiction, no one would've batted an eye. And if it was a sequence in a movie or TV show, it would've won awards. People were just primed to be angry by the lyric and went in looking to be mad at something that, ultimately, you could see in a million other places.
That's why the twist at the end is the big punchline from Liam and company. "Oh, you think this song is about men hitting women? Well, I got news for you..."
On a side note: Before I found the full, uncensored video outside of CZcams, I did see it on a reaction channel. He censored the problematic bits by blurring them (notably, DIDN'T blur the bits where men were getting beaten down or f'd with) but the video's been up for over a year so, y'know, reacting to the video is doable...
Prodigy was signed on with Madonnas record label Maverick. She helped Prodigy conquer America, along with Alanis Morissette and Candelbox.
Song isnt about slapping girls!
Its about kicking it up at a club or party n goin to extremes!
It also references dj jargon
Change my pitch up (not take my picture! As many people think it says)
If you peeps get a chance watch the original video!
It debuted on MTV at 2:00 in the morning got played a few times and got pulled!
It got banned 4 a lil nudity sexual situations
Drug imagery, drinking, partying n pretty much going out of control all for a good time party night!
Its filmed in 1rst person & in the perspective view of the main person in the video…
Watch it all the way to see the big shocking WTF reveal at the end.
Which will blow you away cause you never expected it or saw it coming for that matter!
Great video!
Too bad it got banned!
Hopefully you can find the original uncut online!
Smokey & 6 keep up the jams!
For those about to rock!
We salute you!
If you haven't already you need to watch the video, it gives the song a whole different dynamic.
I remember this coming out, it was referred to as 'a new song by The Prodigy' and never played on radio or shown on T.V.
Also check out Out Of Space for some old skool Prodigy.
I am 52 now but this shit was the stuff back in my day. I still remember when this album dropped....I knew I had to have it. I saw some random review from them doing the Phoenix Festival and I was gobsmacked. They were as fresh as you could get at the time. Can I request something else from them? Try Funky Shit. Same album as this. Thanks guys.
It's weird listening to the song without watching the iconic video with it! 😊
I bought that album when it came out, i can remember vividly being in New Orleans in summer vacation lol. greatest cd i ever bought when i was young
They don't have a DJ. Liam Howlett is the musical genius behind The Prodigy. He performs live with the band using synths and computers. They still perform.
The band was Liam, Maxim, and Keith. Up until 1999 Leeroy Thornhill was also part of the band as a dancer. Maxim is an MC/Hypeman, Keith was a singer and a dancer. Firestarter was the first song Keith Flint sang on - that was on their third album.
On stage they perform as a band with a live-drummer and guitarist.
The band once released a VHS tape named 'Electronic Punks'. A fitting description of this once a rave band turned into a big beat act mixing musical genres together.
They are truly unique and a big inspiration, not just to me but to the music industry itself. Heck, even Madonna wanted Liam Howlett to produce her music (which he turned down).
I love the twist at the end of the music video
This song was and is an eye-opener. You'll understand the reason why the music video is banned EVERYWHERE once you see it. It really made people sit up and say 'hang on, that can't be right' and Prodigy just smiled, gave everyone the finger and said 'of course it is' while pointing at their own creation.
I mean it's so fucking weird it's still censored, even on here. So much more controversial content available.
“Change my pitch up”
The Prodigy sampled that from a rapper and used in this song. He says "Change my pitch up, smack my bitch up."
I remember watching the only time the video was played uncut on mtv... full screen warnings beforehand and all
Drum & Bass at its best
And a piece of jungle
it's actually Big Beat, but D&B is pretty cool too.
Prodigy is the second best live bands i have ever experienced. Rammstein, number 1