Taking centre stage in the intense visual, ‘Firestarter’ marks Flint’s first track as a vocalist for The Prodigy. Meanwhile The Mail on Sunday ran with the headline “Ban this sick fire record” The video also broke an impressive record: achieving the highest number of complaints ever received by the BBC. Several channels banned the song altogether after concerned parents complained that scary Keith Flint was causing their darling children to cower in fear behind the sofa. Shot in a spooky abandoned London tube station (Aldwych, to be precise) The Prodigy’s video for ‘Firestarter’ terrified thousands watching Top of the Pops in ‘96. As we remember and pay tribute to a true icon of dance culture, these visuals show the group – and Keith himself – in the most fearsome form. The band’s mohawked dancer, frontman, troublemaker and music video menace Keith Flint has sadly passed away at the age of 49. From winding up parents with their provocative antics, to the iconic moment that the group’s Keith Flint terrified impressionable youngsters around the UK during one notorious appearance on Top of the Pops, they’re a band that embody brilliant, unchained chaos everything that dance music should be. But later on it was just like, ‘You made a song about me.The Prodigy have always pushed every boundary going. He was like, ‘Oh shit.’ But at the time, there wasn’t really too much to like because when you’re faced with a situation like that nothing really excites you. Everything is gonna be alright.’ At the end, he did get arrested, but we won trial. I was kinda just telling, ‘Hold your head up. Havoc: We laid our feelings on the page and took it from there. Everything we say about that shit is real. “The Ds caught him and when we found out about it, we were on our way to the studio, so we decided to make the song about what was really happening in our lives. “Temperature’s Rising’ is a song that happened when Hav’s brother had went through a little murder situation and he was on the run from the police,” Prodigy said in a Complex interview. In his 2011 autobiography My Infamous Life, Prodigy revealed that the song was about Havoc’s brother, Killa Black, who had just murdered a man over Walkman speakers and was on the run from the police. While most of the songs were grounded in the duo’s reality, it turns out “Temperature’s Rising” was actually based on a true story that was unfolding right in front of their eyes. Prodigy’s dead-eyed, menacing flow and demonic voice combined with Havoc’s knack for conjuring up hell on earth beats ( with some help from Q-Tip) made The Infamous one of the grimiest hip hop albums of the ’90s.įrom “Survival of the Fittest” to “Give Up the Goods (Just Step)” to “Trife Life”, it felt like Mobb Deep were projecting exactly what they were going through on the streets straight through the speakers with crystal clear clarity. Standing tall amongst all these classic albums is Mobb Deep’s The Infamous, a timeless, hyper-realistic look at the day-to-day life in the Queensbridge housing projects. Here’s just a few of the albums dropped that year: Raekwon’s Only Built 4 Cuban Linx…, 2Pac’s Me Against the World, Ol’ Dirty’s Return to the 36 Chambers: The Dirty Version, Bone Thugs-N-Harmony’s E. 1995 was an incredible time for hip hop music.
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