NOTE: Yes, the Waiting to Exhale soundtrack made the list … a lot.

If you had a black mom in the in the 90s you already have most of these songs memorized. You had no choice in the matter, they were pounded into your brain and soul courtesy of plastic CD organizers or, if she was fancy, a grocery bag-mangled cd changer in the trunk.

Have Your Voice Heard: Become an Odyssey Creator

Well, it’s the future now so it’s time mom had her own go-to Spotify playlist. If Luther and the "Bodyguard" soundtrack don’t take her back then nothing will.

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Spotify Version

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YouTube Version

Faded Pictures - Case & Joe

No Diggity - Blackstreet

Back at One - Brian McKnight

Exhale - Shoop Shoop - Whitney Houston

Not Gon’ Cry - Mary J. Blige

Lifetime - Maxwell

Un-Break My Heart - Toni Braxton

Never Too Much - Luther Vandross

The Sweetest Taboo - Sade

Real Love - Mary J. Blige

Always and Forever - Luther Vandross

Poison - Bell Biv Devoe

Casanova - Levert

I Wish - Carl Thomas

Remember the Time - Michael Jackson

I’ll Make Love to You - Boyz II Men

It Never Rains (In Southern California) - Tony! Toni! Tone!

Superstition - Stevie Wonder

Signed, Sealed, Delivered - Stevie Wonder

It Hurts Like Hell - Aretha Franklin

Sitting’ Up In My Room - Brandy

This Is How It Works - TLC

Wey U - Chante Moore

Love Will Be Waiting At Home - For Real

Don’t Leave Me - Backstreet