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Social Club Misfits, known as Social Club from 2012 until 2016, is a
Christian hip hop Christian hip-hop (originally gospel rap, also known as Christian rap, gospel hip-hop or holy hip-hop) is a cross-genre of contemporary Christian music and hip-hop. It emerged from urban contemporary music and Christian media in the United State ...
duo from
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, Florida made up of rappers
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and Marty Mar. They formed their musical partnership in 2011 and released their first free album, entitled ''Misfits,'' on November 27, 2012. Then, the duo released two
EPs An extended play (EP) is a Sound recording and reproduction, musical recording that contains more tracks than a Single (music), single but fewer than an album. Contemporary EPs generally contain up to eight tracks and have a playing time of 1 ...
entitled ''Misfits-EP'', released on March 26, 2013, and ''Rejects.'' on April 2, 2013. The latter garnering some charting success. The third free album from the duo came out on September 13, 2013, entitled ''Summer of George''. Their breakthrough album, ''Misfits 2'', was self-released on April 29, 2014, and ''Us'' was released on March 24, 2015.


Background

Social Club formed in the middle of 2011 in
Miami Miami is a East Coast of the United States, coastal city in the U.S. state of Florida and the county seat of Miami-Dade County, Florida, Miami-Dade County in South Florida. It is the core of the Miami metropolitan area, which, with a populat ...
, Florida. They rebranded themselves as Social Club Misfits in April 2016, when they signed to
Capitol Christian Music Group Capitol Christian Music Group (Capitol CMG) (formerly known as EMI Christian Music Group) is an American music group that, since 2013, is under the ownership of Universal Music Group. Based in Nashville, Tennessee, the label is in the Christian ...
.


History


EPs

The Christian hip hop duo released their first EP on March 26, 2013, entitled ''Misfits-EP'', but it did not chart. Then, released ''Rejects.'' on April 2, 2013, and it saw some commercial charting success on the ''
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'' Gospel Albums and
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charts at Nos. 9 and 32 respectively. This occurred on April 20, 2013, charts. The EP was released by Social Club Misfits label. The duo released their third EP, ''The Misfit Generation'', on May 6, 2016, through Capitol Christian Music Group under with their new name, Social Club Misfits.


Albums

The Christian hip hop duo released two free albums: ''Misfits'' on November 27, 2013, and ''Summer of George'' on September 13, 2013. Their third album, ''Misfits 2'', released on April 29, 2014, charted at No. 59 on the ''Billboard'' 200 on May 17, 2014, and other ''Billboard'' charts such as Gospel Albums, Christian Albums,
Independent Albums The Independent Albums chart (previously titled Top Independent Albums) ranks the highest-selling independent music albums and extended plays (EPs) in the United States, as compiled by Nielsen SoundScan and published weekly by '' Billboard'' mag ...
,
Rap Albums Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums is a music chart published weekly by ''Billboard'' magazine that ranks R&B and hip-hop albums based on sales in the United States and is compiled by Luminate. The chart debuted as Hot R&B LPs in the issue dated January 30, ...
at Nos. 3, 6, 14 and 10 respectively. Their third project, ''US'', was released March 24, 2015 and charted at No. 9 on the ''Billboard'' Rap Albums and other ''Billboard'' charts such as Christian Albums, Independent Albums and 200, at Nos 3, 11, and 103, all on April 2, 2015. Their album, ''Mood // Doom'', won the 2020
Dove Award A Dove Award is an accolade by the Gospel Music Association (GMA) of the United States to recognize outstanding achievement in the Christian music industry. The awards ceremonies presented annually and have been held in Nashville, Tennessee exce ...
for Rap / Hip-hop Album of the Year. On Sept 30th, 2022 Social Club Misfits released "everyone loves a come back story", which has gained positive reviews.


Discography


Studio albums


Extended plays


Singles


Other charted songs


Notes


References


External links

* {{Authority control Musical groups established in 2012 Christian hip-hop groups Southern hip-hop groups 2012 establishments in Florida Musical groups from Miami Musical duos from Florida American hip-hop duos