As part of our series on Music & Masons, here is a page on Moka Only, a Vancouver based hip hop musician who is a member of a Masonic lodge in Vancouver, B.C.
As reported on the Grand Lodge of B.C. & Yukon website, “Freemasonry is an ambivalent presence in the hip hop community. On the one hand there appears to be a growing, misinformed, belief that Freemasonry is a negative influence on society in general and hip hop music in particular, while on the other there are a number of hip hop artists who are representing themselves as Freemasons and, from what they say, appear to have a real understanding about Freemasonry’s ideals.”
The Grand Lodge of B.C. & Yukon cites Vancouver based hip hop artist Moka Only as a example of the latter. Moka Only is a member of a Masonic Lodge in Vancouver, B.C.
As an example of Moka Only’s public position on Freemasonry, here’s a transcript of an interview of Moko Only by a music reporter writing under the name Almightty on this site:
Interviewer: “I was peepin’ the twitter and I seen the hashtag saying that you’re a Freemason. What exactly is a Freemason?”
Moka Only: “Well, Freemasonry is one of the world’s oldest and strongest fraternities. It’s been around for three hundred years now. Yes, I am a Freemason and I will tell you right now it doesn’t have anything to do with the devil and Illuminati or nothing like that. It’s a fraternity of brothers all around the world who are trying to make positive change within themselves so they can make positive change around them, as an outcome. Now, that’s my take. There are many different angles involved. People join the fraternity for many different reasons. Personally, I’m into esoterica. I’m also into philosophy and I like the idea of charity, and Freemasonry embraces all of those things. I’m proud to be a Freemason.”
Interviewer: “Dope, man. You heard it directly from Moka Only’s mouth, man. Freemasonry’s a good thing and Moka Only’s a proud Freemason.”
Here’s another comment from Moka Only which we found interesting:
“…hip hop doesn’t pay enough attention to jazz anymore. There was a time when they went hand in hand in the 90s and hiphop musicians benefitted greatly from studying the jazz greats. Fortunately a handful of us never stopped with the Jazz influence. Study the greats! It will make you greater and more cultured!”
Here is an official Moka Only video from his 2015 release Magickal Weirdness:
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