Born Jamericans was a reggae

Reggae

Reggae is a music genre first developed in Jamaica in the late 1960s. While sometimes used in a broader sense to refer to most types of Jamaican music, the term reggae more properly denotes a particular music style that originated following on the development of ska and rocksteady.Reggae is based...

/hip hop

Hip hop music

Hip hop music, also called hip-hop, rap music or hip-hop music, is a musical genre consisting of a stylized rhythmic music that commonly accompanies rapping, a rhythmic and rhyming speech that is chanted...

 duo formed in Washington, D.C.

Washington, D.C.

Washington, D.C., formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as Washington, "the District", or simply D.C., is the capital of the United States. On July 16, 1790, the United States Congress approved the creation of a permanent national capital as permitted by the U.S. Constitution....

, popular in the 1990s.

The group comprised Norman "Notch" Howell and Edley "Shine" Payne. Notch's voice is smooth and melodic, while Shine's is rougher and tends more toward rapping

Rapping

Rapping refers to "spoken or chanted rhyming lyrics". The art form can be broken down into different components, as in the book How to Rap where it is separated into “content”, “flow” , and “delivery”...

. Their debut album, Kids from Foreign, was released in 1994 on the hip hop label Delicious Vinyl

Delicious Vinyl

Delicious Vinyl is an American independent record label founded by Matt Dike and Michael Ross in 1987 and based in Los Angeles. Throughout its history, the label has had distribution deals with [Island Records/[PolyGram]], Warner Music Group, EMI, Red Ant, Rhino and Universal Music Group.-Early...

, and following its success the group toured with Buju Banton

Buju Banton

Buju Banton is a Jamaican dancehall, ragga, and reggae musician.Banton has recorded pop and dance songs, as well as songs dealing with sociopolitical topics....

, Shabba Ranks

Shabba Ranks

Shabba Ranks is a Jamaican dancehall musician.He was one of the most popular dancehall artists of his generation. He was also one of the first Jamaican deejays to gain worldwide acceptance, and recognition for his 'slack' lyrical expressions and content, when "ridin' di riddim"...

, Zhane

Zhane

Zhané was an American R&B/hip hop soul duo, best known for their 1994 hit "Hey Mr. D.J.", which reached #6 in the U.S. Other popular hits include "Groove Thang" and minor hit "Sending My Love," both released in 1994...

, and Shai

Shai

Shai was the deification of the concept of fate in Egyptian mythology...

, and toured Japan

Japan

Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...

 with Shinehead

Shinehead

Shinehead is an English-born Jamaican reggae singer/toaster/rapper.-Career:He began his music career by performing for different New York reggae dancehall sound systems in the 1980s, most notably Tony Screw's Downbeat The Ruler, based in The Bronx.His recording debut was in 1986 on the African...

 and Mad Lion

Mad Lion

Oswald Priest, better known as Mad Lion, is a dancehall, ragga musician and rapper. He frequently collaborates with fellow hip hop artist KRS-One — most recently on a DVD promoting the Temple of Hiphop...

. In 1996, they contributed the soundtrack to the film Kla$h. The duo's second album, released in 1997, featured guest appearances from Mad Lion, Shinehead, and Johnny Osbourne

Johnny Osbourne

Johnny Osbourne is a popular Jamaican reggae and dancehall singer, who rose to success in the late 1970s and mid 1980s. His album Truths and Rights was a notable roots reggae success, and featured "Jah Promise" and the album's title track, "Truths and Rights"...

. Both albums were chart successes in the United States.

Discography

• Kids From Foreign
  Kids from Foreign
  Kids From Foreign is the debut album of Born Jamericans.The song "Boom Shak-A-Tack" appears in the videogame Saints Row 2. The official remix of the song called "Boom Shak-A-Tak " appears on this album with a music video that marked the directorial debut of Bille Woodruff.-Track listing:#Instant...
  
  (Delicious Vinyl
  Delicious Vinyl
  Delicious Vinyl is an American independent record label founded by Matt Dike and Michael Ross in 1987 and based in Los Angeles. Throughout its history, the label has had distribution deals with [Island Records/[PolyGram]], Warner Music Group, EMI, Red Ant, Rhino and Universal Music Group.-Early...
  
  , 1994) U.S. #188, U.S. R&B #36, U.S. Reggae #2
• Yardcore
  Yardcore
  "Yardcore" is the name of the second album by Born Jamericans.It's also their last album as the duo "Born Jamericans".There is also a single by Born Jamericans called "Yardcore", it was released on CD and a 12" single with several remixes....
  
  (Delicious Vinyl
  Delicious Vinyl
  Delicious Vinyl is an American independent record label founded by Matt Dike and Michael Ross in 1987 and based in Los Angeles. Throughout its history, the label has had distribution deals with [Island Records/[PolyGram]], Warner Music Group, EMI, Red Ant, Rhino and Universal Music Group.-Early...
  
  , 1997) U.S. R&B #65, U.S. Reggae #2

Charting singles

Year	Title	Chart Positions
		U.S. Pop Singles Billboard Hot 100 The Billboard Hot 100 is the United States music industry standard singles popularity chart issued weekly by Billboard magazine. Chart rankings are based on radio play and sales; the tracking-week for sales begins on Monday and ends on Sunday, while the radio play tracking-week runs from Wednesday...	U.S. Hot Hip-Hop/R&B	U.S. Hot Rap Singles	U.S. Hot Dance/Maxi Singles
1993	"Boom Shak-a-Tack"	#84	#57	#15	#20
1994	"Cease & Seckle"	-	#82	#32	#34
1997	"Yardcore"	-	#45	#8	-
1998	"Send My Love/Send One Your Love"	#72	#60	#19	-