Artist Info: General Trees

General Trees (born Amos Edwards, Drews Land, Kingston, Jamaica, c.1960) was one of the most popular jamaican dancehall deejay of the 1980s, best known for his hits in the latter half of the decade.

General Trees is widely regarded as the best Jamaican speed rapper of his era, the "fast style" of delivery commonly accepted as arriving in Jamaica from the UK, through London-born Phillip Papa Levi. He first found fame as a sound system star, working on Maurice Johnson's Black Scorpio system [read more...]