The Mike Loyd Report/Catalog № 02/MMXXVI
MikeLoyd.
- Rapper
- Writer
- Builder
- Marine
- Scholar
- Family
Creative Mike the Rapper. Co-founder of Dope Coffee. Author of Enemies of God. Twenty-one years on, the dorm-room report is back on air.
— recorded WSNS 1984 → ATL 2026
— Manifest
Same through-line, every lane: hip-hop, the coffee shop, the book, the unit, the family. Same arc.
As Heard / As Printed
- Creative Loafing
- WABE Atlanta
- 11Alive
- Progressive Grocer
- Daily Coffee News
- Camden Monthly
- Decaturish
— What I Do
Five Lanes. One Catalog.
Rapper · Side A
Creative Mike the rapper.
Eight projects since 2005. Boom-bap, soulful, jazz-leaning. Songwriting that, in his own words, is poetic like Kendrick and clear like Cole. Latest: Ghost Millennial Heroes (2025) on Dope Coffee Music.
Hear the catalog08 projects · 2005 – 2025
02Writer
Author, Enemies of God.
A reclamation of the destroyed Jewish communities of West Africa. 1492. Two exiles, same year.
Read the book14 chapters · ~63K words · pre-launch
03Builder
Co-founder, Dope Coffee.
Atlanta specialty roaster, est. 2018. Where hip-hop meets the coffee shop. Family business with Chel and cousin Stace.
realdope.coffeeEst. 2018 · Decatur → Stonecrest → Sweet Auburn
Marine · Scholar
USMC 1302. Wake Forest. NC A&T.
Combat Engineer Officer, Afghanistan 2012. BA History (Wake Forest, Track and Field roster). MA Education (NC A&T).
Clear. Hold. Build.
Family · Side B
Husband. Father. Cousin.
Married to Chel (CPO, roast master, dietitian). Raising Jayden and Michael III. Cousin Stace runs the music side. Family business, on purpose.
17 yrs married · 3 kids · one company
Field Note · Creative Loafing
I went to college, got the degrees… but that ain’t changed nothing as a Black man.
Mike Loyd, on the record
— The Book
1492. Two exiles, same year.
The Atlantic slave trade and the systematic destruction of West African Jewish communities began at the same time, in the same place, with the same theological justification. ENEMIES OF GOD: The Holy Betrayal of Negro Jews In The Diaspora is the reclamation of a record that was, until now, deliberately not kept.
It is not a confession of faith. It is a reclamation of culture.— Author’s Note
Millennial
Heroes Latest from Creative Mike the Rapper
— The Music
The pen and the mic are the same instrument.
Hip hop for the future, on Dope Coffee Music. Produced with cousin Stace Loyd. Nostalgic, progressive, jazz-leaning. The latest chapter of an arc that started in a Wake Forest dorm-room studio in 2005.
— The Coffee Connection
Where hip-hop meets the coffee shop.
Dope Coffee. Atlanta. Specialty roaster and independent record label, run with my wife Chel and cousin Stace. Decatur HQ since 2023. Stonecrest opening this year. Sweet Auburn next. The cultural infrastructure behind the work.
— The Now Report · May 2026 · Decatur, GA
Currently on the air.
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Music
Ghost Millennial Heroes is the latest record. Out now on Dope Coffee Music.
2025.10 -
Book
Enemies of God — 14 chapters, ~63K words. Pre-launch. Subscribe for the drop.
2026.Q3 -
Coffee
Stonecrest HQ build-out underway. Sweet Auburn Curb Market — Space #129B opens June 2026.
2026.06 -
Field
50 Years of Hip-Hop Concert Series — bi-weekly at the Decatur HQ. Free.
Bi-weekly
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The Mike Loyd Report.Volume Two.
Book updates. New music. Coffee drops. Notes from the unit. No spam, no filler. Just the work, when it lands.