"Elevate My Mind" is a song by English

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group

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, with female vocals provided by

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. It made #74 on the UK Singles Chart, #36 on the

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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 "

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" by

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Critical reception

A reviewer from ''

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'' 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 ''

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'' (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