Lime Green

In 1995, Moka Only, alongside long-time partner Prevail, hooked up with another Vancouver MC, Mad Child, to form the Swollen Members crew. He split solo in the mid to late 90s, calling Vancouver home office to his dozen or so full length tapes and stacks of vinyl before coming back to Battleaxe in '99 to release Lime Green. For this gem, he hooks up with Abstract Rude, LMNO and Mad Child & Prevail (Swollen Members) to stack another chapter onto his discography. Moka's funky-vibed, piano-heavy loops and melodic hooks hint to a laid-back, jazzy-type delivery and sound for most of the project ("Rolling Along," "Invisible," "August Asphalt," and "Been There") but his cadence switches up and flips into an attack-mode on "Formula Fresh" and "Crunch." I have a feeling that this summer will embrace laid-back and "chill-to-this" type of music; if so, Moka Only has his arms spread to give you a hug for summer-but with the amount of material he's got, I couldn't tell you how long that hug will be.