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Forest Cameron Smith (born November 29, 1992), better known as R3B3L General (or RG for short), is an American rapper and singer-songwriter. He released his project album, Maxed Out, Vol.1, in 2014. His song "Ma"X"ed Out" from that mixtape was featured in an article on The Truant where it was described as "worth a listen and is definitely better than any of the hip-hop acts I have heard coming from [the area] in quite some time." and that the lyrics were "something that is a huge removal from commercial rap artists"

Early Life
General was born Forest Cameron Smith in Olympia Field, Illinois on November 29, 1992. He Spent most of his early life moving and facing difficult situations such as living in apartments with no furniture. General lived in Chicago, and Panama City before settling in Las Cruces, New Mexico where he attended Oñate High School. General's influences include Black Veil Brides, Blink-182, MGK, T.I, Bring Me The Horizon, and Wiz Khalifa.

Career
His stage name is derived from the first group he started MBG or Military Brat Group where he was the "general" of the group. He has also said his name came from people always coming to him for guidance and has always been natural born leader. He lived a hard early life, but he went on be a star athlete in high school in track and football for Oñate High School. He studied in the media program were he met a group of friends interested in music. During that time he began experimenting with music, and after graduating he enrolled to NMSU where he met a couple of guys who were into rapping, which led to the birth of MBG. After the fall of MBG, he continued on solo where he began to grow rapidly not only as an artist but as a businessman. He decided to unify his followers and crew members under the name "The Rebels" thus making him the Rebel General. After many trips to Los Angeles, California he decided to move there in 2013 where he helped found the clothing line Liberty Public, which later became PoetXSociety