| Lonnie Liston Smith | Sunset | Visions of a New World | RCA |
| Donny Hathaway | To Be Young Gifted and Black | Everything Is Everything | Rhino/WEA |
| Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes | Wake Up Everybody | The Ultimate Blue Note | Sony |
| Ledisi | Free Again | Soul Singer | Independent |
| Erykah Badu | Telephone | New Amerykah: Part One | Motown |
| Roy Ayers | Searching | The Millennium Collection | Polydor |
| Stevie Wonder | Love is In Need of Love | Natural Wonder | Motown |
| Sarah Vaughan | Summertime | Verve Remixed | Verve |
| Donald Byrd | Wind Parade | The Best of Donald Byrd | |
| James Moody | The World Is A Ghetto | The World is A Ghetto | |
| Omar Sosa | Light in The Sky | Afreecanos | |
| Bob Marley | Concrete Jungle | Chant Down Babylon | Tuff Gong |
| The Roots | Right On | How I Got Over | Def Jam |
| The Last Poets | Black Is | This Is Madness | |
| Marvin Gaye | Trouble Man | Trouble Man Soundtrack | Motown |
| Donny Hathaway | Little Ghetto Boy | These Songs for You Live | Rhino |
| Steel Pulse | Handsworth Revolution | Island 50 Reggae | Island |
| Pete Rock | | | |
| OC | Times Up | Wild Pitch Classics | Wild Pitch |
| Slick Rick | Hey Young Word | The Great Adventures of Slick Rick | Def Jam |
| Mos Def | Little Brother (Black Star) | We Are Hip Hop | |
| Anthony Hamilton | I Use To Love Someone | Soul Life | |
| The Fugees | Rumble In the Jungle | Rumble In The Jungle | |
| GD | Found | Message Universa | Look |
| Watts Prophets | Sell Your Soul | Things Gonna Get Greater | |
| Guru | Living In the World | Jazzmatazz Vol 2. The New Reality | Chrysalis |
| Mos Def | Umi Said | Black on Both Side | Rawkus |
| Nnkea | God of Mercy | Concrete Jungle | Epic |
| Outkast | Elevators | Atliens | La Face |
| Jeru the Damaja | You Can't Stop the Prophet | Chuck D Presents Louder than a Bomb | |
| Public Enemy | Prophets of Rage | It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back | Def Jam |
| Yejide The Night Queen | Earth Tones | Seventh | Independent |
| Jimmy Cliff | King Tubby Meets the Uptown Rockers | Island 50 Reggae | Island |
| Freestyle Fellowship | InnerCity Boundaries | Inner City Griots | 4th And Broadway |
| The Brand New Heavies | Brother Sister | Remixes and Excursions | Delicious Vinyl |
| Mos Def | Auditorium | The Ecstatic | Downtown Records |
| Tupac | Tupac Interlude | The Rose That Grew From Concrete | Amaru/Interscope |
| Do D.A.T | The Paper Chase | The Skinny | Independent |
| N'Dambi | Lonely Woman | Little Lost Girls Blue | Motown |
| Les Nubians | Desolee | Princess Nubiennes | Higher Octave |
| Dorothy Ashby | Come Live With Me | Afro Harping | Blue Note |
| DJ Krush Feat Zap Mama | The Danger of Love | Stepping Stones | Red Ink |
| 4 Hero Feat. Lady Alma | Gonna Give It Up | Play With the Changes | Raw Canvas |
| Erykah Badu | Window Seat | New Amerykah: Part Two | Motown |
| Sam Cooke | A Change Is Gonna Come | The Man and His Music | RCA |
| Aretha Franklin | Angel | Hey Now Hey (The Other Side of the Sky) | Rhino |
| Fela Kuti | Center of The World | Underground | MCA |
