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TIL Prodigy's video for "Smack My Bitch Up" depicts a night out in London, graphically portraying snorting cocaine, using heroin, drinking and driving, violence, vomiting, vandalism, nudity and a sex scene, all filmed from a first-person perspective . It was banned everywhere.

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