The Chart Show refused to display the name of the song when the video was played during one of their episodes. Yet on the first episode of Top of the Pops in which it charted, the DJ Hype remix was played over the Top 10 countdown, including the offending lyric of "Change my pitch up, smack my bitch up." 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. Only a lyric-free version was played on Radio 1. Last time something like this happened was 1987 when George Michael's song Your Sex was banned too. British BBC Radio 1 also banned Smack My Bitch Up for radio playing because the lyrics of the song. It has been blacklisted by many US and Canadian radio stations. The most controversial single in Prodigy's history. This is the Prodigy’s third and last single from The Fat Of The Land album, released on November 10, 1997.
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