Howard "Pappy" Mason (born September 8, 1959) is an American drug trafficker and organized crime figure.
Mason and his partner, Lorenzo "Fat Cat" Nichols, ran a drug smuggling gang called the Bebos,[1] in the Jamaica, Queens, neighborhood of New York City.
He is mentioned in a single "Bomba" (translated in English as "Bomb") by the Serbian rapper Struka, who rhymes: "If hip-hop was horror movie I would be Jason, legend in hood like in Queens Pappy Mason" (translated to English from the original: "...Da je hip hop horor film ja bih bio Džejson, Legenda u kraju k'o u Kvinsu Pepi Mejson").
"RG (French private espionage agency) are stalking me anywhere I am from Miami to Corbeil-Essonnes, no more surprised, I'm determinated like Pappy Mason".
In the Luke Cage episode "Manifest", Shades mentions that Mason and former Mayor David Dinkins were acquaintances of "Momma" Mabel Stokes.