Music · Volume Two

CREATIVE
MIKE

Rapper
Songwriter
Producer
Atlanta
Dope Coffee Music

Hip hop for the future. Atlanta posture, Winston-Salem roots. Songwriting poetic like Kendrick and clear like Cole. Eight projects since the 2005 dorm-room debut. Latest: Ghost Millennial Heroes (2025).

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2025 · Dope Coffee Music GHOST
MILLENNIAL
HEROES Latest from Creative Mike the Rapper

Featured Release

Ghost Millennial Heroes.Out now on Dope Coffee Music.

Produced with cousin Stace Loyd. Nostalgic, progressive, jazz-leaning. Boom-bap as the spine, soul samples as the marrow. The latest chapter of an arc that started in a Wake Forest dorm-room studio in 2005.

8 projects since 2005 · Dope Coffee Music (DCMG)

Catalog

Eight projects, one body of work.

2025 Ghost Millennial Heroes LP · Latest
2025 Old Friends Single
2021 God Shit Single
2021 Leona (Far From Home Tour) Live
2021 SPINACH LP · Ethiopian Dripp tie-in
2020 The Black Jesus EP EP
2008 The Backpacker EP EP · Wake Forest era
2005 The Mike Loyd Report Debut · Shorty’s Cafe

Recorded in a Wake Forest dorm-room studio. Released at Shorty’s Cafe, the first and only hip-hop release party on Wake Forest’s campus.

Hip hop for the future. I use music to change our culture and influence my people.Creative Mike · Camden Monthly

Inside SPINACH

Nine track dissertation.

2021 · LP · 9 tracks · ~29:22

SPINACH.

Marketed as a 9 track dissertation in Hip-Hop. Tied to Ethiopian Dripp coffee, cold brew with Harriet Tubman imagery and QR codes routing to the album. Cousin Stace produces. Wife Chel features on Venus.

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A-Side

Tracks 1-5

1. Spinach
2. The Story of Black Tony Starks
3. Elon Musk
4. Venus (feat. CHEL)
5. S.O.P.

B-Side

Tracks 6-9

6. Leona
7. Retribution
8. White Paper Ballot
9. Black Card

Dope Coffee Music

The label is the family. The family is the label.

DCMG launched in 2020. Cousin Stace Loyd produces and runs point as VP of Music. The 50 Years of Hip-Hop concert series, hosted by Creative Mike, runs bi-weekly out of Atlanta. Free admission. Hip-hop presented in a mentally and emotionally stimulating format that challenges our community to escape the violence and drug-laden environments.

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