The Prodigy’s ICONIC hit is given a ‘PC rewrite’ after facing non-stop backlash – 26 years after storming the charts

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 money rather than keep it for a rainy day and said in 2015: ‘I’m not saving for anything. I’m cashing it all now. I’ve always had this thing inside me that, when I’m done, I’ll kill myself’.

Figures from the Probate Office revealed that his £11.6million fortune was reduced to £4.3million after £7.3million in debts and taxes needed to be paid, The Sun has said. 

All change: Now after years of refusing to change the lyrics lead singer Maxim (R) opted to miss out the offending line and simply repeat ‘change my pitch up’ at two recent London gigs (pictured in 2015)

Hit: 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 (pictured in 2009)

Controvesy: 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 (the band pictured in 1996)

Keith had drunk alcohol and taken cocaine and codeine before his death in March, an inquest heard.

The Firestarter singer was found hanged at his £1.5million home, leaving fans around the world devastated.

Tests found he had a number of substances in his system, although how much and whether they may have impaired his thinking was not divulged at the inquest.

He had spoken of kicking drugs and alcohol after meeting Japanese wife Mayumi. 

After his death at the age of 49 it emerged the couple had split up and their four-bedroom Tudor mansion in Essex which he ‘loved’ had recently gone on the market.

Tragic: Late frontman Keith owed £7.3million in debts and taxes when he died by suicide in 2019 (pictured in 2010) 

Ex: 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 (pictured together in 2009)

Essex senior coroner Caroline Beasley-Murray said there was insufficient evidence to show he had committed suicide, saying: ‘To record that I would have to have found that, on the balance of probabilities, Mr Flint formed the idea and took a deliberate action, knowing it would result in his death.’ 

She also found insufficient evidence to conclude his death was the result of an accident, for example if he had been ‘larking around and it all went horribly wrong’. 

Mrs Beasley-Murray added: ‘We will never know what was going on in his mind on that date, so that’s why I am going to record an open conclusion.’

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