Free Your Mind (song)
1992 single by En Vogue / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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"Free Your Mind" is a song by American female group En Vogue from their second album, Funky Divas (1992). The track was composed and produced by Foster and McElroy.[citation needed] They were inspired by the Funkadelic song "Free Your Mind and Your Ass Will Follow."[2] The guitar and bass tracks for the song were written and recorded by San Francisco-based guitarist Jinx Jones. The opening line: "Prejudice, wrote a song about it. Like to hear it? Here it go!", is adapted from a line originally used by David Alan Grier's character Calhoun Tubbs from Fox's In Living Color.
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Single by En Vogue | ||||
from the album Funky Divas | ||||
Released | September 24, 1992 | |||
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Label | East West | |||
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Producer(s) | Foster & McElroy | |||
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"Free Your Mind" on YouTube | ||||
Issued as the third single from Funky Divas on September 24, 1992, "Free Your Mind" became a top-10 hit on the US Billboard Hot 100 and a top-20 hit on the UK Singles Chart. Billboard named the song No. 41 on their list of "100 Greatest Girl Group Songs of All Time".[3] An alternative version of the song with different lyrics appears on the 1992 Summer Olympics compilation album Barcelona Gold.[4]