The Prodigy's ICONIC hit is given a 'PC rewrite' after facing non-stop backlash ... trends now
Iconic 90s band The Prodigy have reportedly rewritten one of their most famous hits after facing 26-years of backlash.
The track Smack My B***h Up which was first released in 1997 has faced calls to be banned after being accused of glamorising domestic violence.
Now after years of refusing to change the lyrics lead singer Maxim opted to miss out the offending line and simply repeat 'change my pitch up' at two recent London gigs according to The Sun.
Despite the original controversy the track reached number eight in the charts performed by the group's then frontman Keith Flint, who died in 2019 aged 49.
At the time the BBC Radio 1 banned the song while the ITV Chart Show refused to display it's title on screen when the video was played.
Moving with the times: Iconic 90s band The Prodigy have reportedly rewritten one of their most famous hits after facing 26-years of backlash (late frontman Keith Flint pictured in 1997)
Trouble: The track Smack My B***h Up which was first released in 1997 has faced calls to be banned after being accused of glamorising domestic violence (new lead singer Maxim pictured)
MailOnline have contacted the band's reps for comment.
Late frontman Keith owed £7.3million in debts and taxes when he died in 2019.
His £11.6million estate was slashed by two thirds to £4.3million after his suicide at his Essex mansion.
Keith had made more than £1.5million in the last two years of his life with The Prodigy releasing its seventh consecutive number one album, No Tourists and starting a world tour.
But the star, who battled depression, had split with his Japanese wife Mayumi and put the £1.5million mansion 'he loved' in Dunmow, Essex, up for sale on the eve of his death.
And it emerged that his pub firm De Bohun Inns Limited, which owned several Essex pubs including the Leather Bottle in Pleshey, had debts of more than £500,000.
Keith had admitted he would spend his
