This list was compiled by New Nation - Britain's best selling Afro-Caribbean newspaper in association with MOBO - Music Of Black Origin - in June 2004
1 What's Going On - Marvin Gaye
2 Off The Wall - Michael Jackson
3 It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back - Public Enemy
4 Songs In The Key Of Life - Stevie Wonder
5 lllmatic - Nas
6 Thriller - Michael Jackson
7 Catch A Fire - Bob Marley And The Waiters
8 Ready To Die - Notorious BIG
9 Straight Outta Compton - NWA
10 The Miseducation Of Lauryn Hill - Lauryn Hill.
11 Midnight Marauders - A Tribe Called Quest
12 Kind Of Blue - Mites Davis
13 A Love Supreme - John Cottrane
14 Innervisions - Stevie Wonder
15 What's The 411 - Mary J Bilge
16 Brown Sugar - D'Angelo
17 Death Certificate-Ice Cube
18 The Chronic - Dr Ore
19 I Want You - Marvin Gaye
20 Only Built 4 Cuban Linx - Raekwon
21 Rapture - Antta Baker
22 Club Classics Vol 1 - Soul II Soul
23 Baduizm - Erykah Badu
24 Talking Book - Stevie Wonder
25 Exodus - Bob Mafley
26 Greatest Hits - Al Green
27 Let's Get It On - Marvin Gaye
28 Superfly - Curtis Mayfield
29 The Harder They Come - Various
30 Doggystyte - Snoop Doggy Dogg
31 Paid In Full - Eric B And Rakim
32 3 Feel High And Rising - De La Soul
33 Reasonable Doubt - Jay-Z
34 The Score - Fugees
35 Natty Dread - Bob Martey And The Wallers
36 'Til Shiloh - Buju Banton
37 Hot Buttered Soul - Isaac Hayes
38 Mary J Bilge - My Life
39 Everybody Loves The Sunshine - Roy Ayers
40 Electric Ladyland - Jimi Hendrix
41 Bad - Michael Jackson
42 Revolution - Dennis Brown
43 3+3 - Isley Brothers
44 Curtis Live! - Curtis Mayfield
45 There's A Riot Going On - Sly & The Family Stone
46 Legalize It - Peter Tosh
47 Birth Of The Cool - Miles Davis
48 By All Means Necessary - Boogie Down Productions
49 Me Against The Wortd - 2Pac
50 Blue Train-John Coltrans
51 Live At The Apollo Vol.1 - James Brown & The Famous Flames
52 Can't Get Enough - Barry White
53 12 Play - R Kelly
54 Da Real Thing - Sizzla
55 Shaft - Isaac Hayes
56 Live - Donny Hathaway
57 Control-Janet Jackson
58 Fete Kuti - Coffin For Head Of State
59 The Night I Fell In Love - Luther Vandross
60 Life After Death - Notorious BIG
61 Criminal Minded - Boogie Down Productions
62 Diary Of A Mad Band - Joded
63 For Pleasure - Omar
64 All Eyez On Me - 2Pac
65 Follow The Leader - Eric B And Rakim
66 What Cha' Gonna Do For Me - Chaka Khan
67 Winter In America - Gil Scott-Heron
68 Equal Rights - Peter Tosh
69 Forever My Lady - Jodeci
70 Peace Beyond Passion - Me'shell Ndegeocello
71 Sex Machine - James Brown
72 New Moon Daughter - Cassandra Wilson
73 The Revolution Will Not Be Televised - Gil Scott-Heron
74 Lady Day: Best Of Blllie Holiday - Billie Holiday
75 Sign 0' The Times - Prince
76 Music Is Life - Beres Hammond
77 Everything Is Everything - Donny Hathaway
78 Original Rockers - Augustus Pablo
79 Young Gifted And Black - Aretha
80 Aquernini - Outkast
81 Street Songs - Rick James
82 Who Is Jill Scott? - Jill Scott
83 This is Madness - The Last Poets
84 Marcus Garvey - Burning Spear
85 Whitney Houston - Whitney Houston
86 Road To Freedom - Young Disciples
87 Step Into The Arena - Gang Starr
88 Voodoo - D'Angelo
89 Anthology - Nina Simone
90 Otis Blue - Otis Redoing
91 Confusion - Fela Kuti
92 One Nation Under A Groove - Funkadelic
93 Guy - Guy
94 Wolves And Leopards - Dennis Brown
95 CrazySexyCool - TLC
96 Raising Hell - Run CMC
97 Mama Said Knock You Out - LL Cool J
98 Don't Be Cruel - Bobby Brown
99 Tracy Chapman - Tracy Chapman
100 Stronger Than Pride - Sade
