caption vocals years_active label article_title past_members background genre image origin name
edley shine and notch rapping , singing 1990s delicious vinyl eastwest records born jamericans
 norman howell edley payne group_or_band ragga / hip hop / reggae born jamericans.jpg washington , d.c. , united states born jamericans
born jamericans

born jamericans was a reggae/hip hop duo formed in washington , d.c. , popular in the 1990s .
the group comprised norman `` notch '' howell and horace `` edley shine '' payne .
notch 's voice is smooth and melodic , while shine 's is rougher and tends more toward toasting .
their debut album , `` kids from foreign '' , was released in 1994 on the hip hop label delicious vinyl , and following its success the group toured with buju banton , shabba ranks , zhane , and shai , and toured japan with shinehead and mad lion .
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 .
both albums were chart successes in the united states .
