Elevate My Mind

"Elevate My Mind"
Single by Stereo MC's
from the album Supernatural
Released1990[1]
Recorded1990[1]
GenreHip hop[1]
Length3:15 (7" Version)[1] 5:07 (12" Version)[1]
Label4th & Broadway, Island Records[1]
Songwriter(s)Stereo MC's[1]
Producer(s)Stereo MC's[1]
Stereo MC's singles chronology
"On 33"
(1989) 		"Elevate My Mind"
(1990) 		"Lost in Music"
(1991)

"Elevate My Mind" is a song by English hip hop/electronic dance group Stereo MC's, with female vocals provided by Cath Coffey. It made #74 on the UK Singles Chart,[2] #36 on the Hot Dance Music/Maxi-Singles Sales[3] and #39 on the Billboard Hot 100,[3] making them the first British rap group to make the Billboard Hot 100.[4] It features a sample of "White Lines (Don't Don't Do It)" by Grandmaster Melle Mel.

Critical reception

A reviewer from NME wrote, "Watch out! Here they come, back again to distress the session with another corker of a tune. A bouncy rhyming rap in true Stereo MCs fashion over a bubbling backbeat and '70s-style Hammond riff. A fine taster from their forthcoming LP."[5]

  • "Elevate My Mind" was used on the soundtrack of Bad Company (1995) starring Laurence Fishburne, Ellen Barkin, and Frank Langella.[6]
  • The song is used in Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare, in the Zombies map Rave in the Redwoods.

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h "Stereo MC's - Elevate My Mind". Discogs. Retrieved 18 June 2013.
  2. ^ "STEREO MC'S". The Official Charts Company. Retrieved 18 June 2013.
  3. ^ a b "Stereo MC's - Awards". AllMusic. Retrieved 18 June 2013.
  4. ^ "Stereo MC's - Music Biography". AllMusic. Retrieved 18 June 2013.
  5. ^ "Groove Check". NME. 8 September 1990. Retrieved 24 February 2023.
  6. ^ "Bad Company (1995), a film by Damian Harris". Theiapolis. Archived from the original on 20 June 2013. Retrieved 18 June 2013.


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