"Elevate My Mind" is a song by English hip hop/ electronic dance group

Stereo MC's Stereo MC's are an English Hip hop music, hip hop/electronic dance music, electronic dance group which formed in Nottingham, England, in 1985. They had an international Top 40, top 20 hit with their single "Connected (Stereo MCs song), Connected ...

, with female vocals provided by

Cath Coffey Catherine Muthoni Coffey is a British singer who was one of the earliest members of British hip hop band Stereo MCs. The single " Elevate My Mind", from the Stereo MCs album ''Supernatural'', in which Coffey was the backing vocalist, was the fir ...

. It made #74 on the UK Singles Chart, #36 on the Hot Dance Music/Maxi-Singles Sales and #39 on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100, making them the first British rap group to make the ''Billboard'' Hot 100. 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."

In popular culture

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

References

1990 singles 1990 songs Stereo MCs songs 4th & B'way Records singles Island Records singles {{1990s-hiphop-song-stub