Imagine, if you please, a crack unit of army drop-outs, institutionalised, dislocated from their surroundings and generally fucked in the head, and then let out on day release to devastate a city near you. That, my friends, is the Generals, a full-rhymer tag team who make up for what they lack in sanity with pure chops.

The mastermind behind this explosion of dysfunctional rhyme armament? It was long-time Herbaliser collaborator Jean Grae who decided to bust out a group of frontline MC soldiers from right across the USA and bring them together to cause mayhem. Brooklyn, Boston, Atlanta, Harlem and the Bronx – never before has such a team of misfits been featured together on one record…