A Free Album Better than Many For Sale! | Posted March 26, 2013
Social Club is a group that is really carving its own niche in the industry of hip-hop. These Florida boys (rappers F.E.R.N. and Marty Mar) are starting to create quite a buzz with their Southern flow, nice choice of beats and their honest and transparent lyrics. It's no wonder why many youth are able to identify with this group.
They released a free album, titled Misfits, which could have easily been sold on various digital outlets. They decided to get their music out for "FREE99," so that people could really get a full feel of what they are about. The Social Club Misfit Gang (or SCMG) is just getting started.
Hearing the female voice say, "Social Club is the best!" may throw you off and cause you to wonder whether or not this group has a pride issue. However, after listening to their music, you realize that these guys do not mean any harm.
Rey King provides the beat and provides a banging introduction with SCMG via the song, "STRT TRBL." "Glow In the Dark" has the elements that will people to scrunch up their nose and give the "stink face." Not because it's bad, but it's "the jam." Fernie (as he calls himself) and Marty Mar skillfully rap about being a light in this world. They do this over a Gawvi (a.k.a. G-Styles) beat while Gawvi flips the beat mid-chorus (which he's singing by the way) into dubstep.
SCMG realizes that they may be shunned by people in society and in the church because they do not sugar-code their shortcomings or issues while longing for God. Check, Marty Marr's bars on the the chill and reflective "S&G" which stands for Sodom and Gomorrah. "Look I relate to kids when they fill left out / I'm feeling all alone / feeling empty in this house." Marty Mar feels like a "misfit" for issues he is dealing with such as the fallout with his uncle and his cousin.
They continue to keep it "100" on the Hot Handz-produced "Venetian Blinds," featuring Tragic Hero while Marty and Rhema Soul's Butta P touch on the heartbreak of relationships that "got away." With "Chocolate Bobka," it's good to hear them talk about how far they have come--from the shunned high school years to rappers repping for Christ. Fernie especially kills his verse while you will get sucked into singing the hook, "It's the Social Club Misfit Gang… AHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!"
To say that "Screwed Up Kids" is a certified banger is an understatement. Wit lays the dopest "boom bap" with killer bars from SCMG, Dre Murray, and Rhema Soul's Juan Love and K-Nuff. Don't listen to this one first because you will neglect the other great songs on the album. Fernie chants the hook that sums it up, "I thank God for the gift of grace / blessed my life for a few / when I change my ways / From the dark place to the throne room / I lay sitting just amazed at what the Lord's doing."
Closing Thoughts:
It almost seems like a crime to have an album this good to be offered for free. Download it! Give it to your friends. If you are an adult, give it to those who love good hip-hop. Give it to those who feel like outcasts and feel there is no hope. They are Christians who can identity!
Song to Download Now:
The whole thing. It's free, after all! Download here.
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