The lyrical
sample was
rapped by noted
nutjob Kool Keith in the
Ultramagnetic MCs song "
Give the Drummer Some" off the
LP "
Critical Beatdown".
I'm ready
And now it's my turn to build
Uplift, get swift, then drift
Off... and do my own thing
Switch up
Change my pitch up
Smack my bitch up, like a pimp
The
Prodigy's use of the lyric
out of context in their own music prompted the
Beastie Boys to call them
misogynists and demand they be kicked off the bill to
Reading 1998. Of course, MC
Maxim Reality declared that "the way things go, I do what the fuck I want!", the band played the song, and the
media turned it into a
giant battle.
Of course, the original
criticism was
ironic coming from a band who used to have
caged dancing girls and
20-
foot phalluses as stage props.
So it goes.