Elevate My Mind

"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.

"Elevate My Mind"
Single by Stereo MC's
from the album Supernatural
Released	1990[1]
Recorded	1990[1]
Genre	Hip hop[1]
Length	3:15 (7" Version)[1] 5:07 (12" Version)[1]
Label	4th & 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)

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

• "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.