Elevate My Mind Explained

Elevate My Mind
Type:single
Artist:Stereo MC's
Album:Supernatural
Released:1990[1]
Recorded:1990
Genre:Hip hop
Length:3:15 (7" Version) 5:07 (12" Version)
Label:4th & Broadway, Island Records
Producer:Stereo MC's
Prev Title:On 33
Prev Year:1989
Next Title:Lost in Music
Next Year: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]

In popular culture

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Stereo MC's - Elevate My Mind. Discogs. 18 June 2013.
  2. Web site: STEREO MC'S. The Official Charts Company. 18 June 2013.
  3. Web site: Stereo MC's - Awards. AllMusic. 18 June 2013.
  4. Web site: Stereo MC's - Music Biography. AllMusic. 18 June 2013.
  5. NME. Groove Check. 8 September 1990. 24 February 2023.
  6. Web site: Bad Company (1995), a film by Damian Harris . https://archive.today/20130620072508/http://cinema.theiapolis.com/movie-08AC/bad-company/ . dead . 20 June 2013 . Theiapolis . 18 June 2013 .