The Mike Loyd Report · Volume Two
Creative Mike the Rapper
Hip hop for the future. Atlanta posture, Winston-Salem roots.
The rapper
Michael Loyd Jr. raps as Creative Mike the Rapper. In his own words: “Hip hop for the future. I use music to change our culture and influence my people.” The songwriting is poetic like Kendrick Lamar and clear like J. Cole. A journalist at heart, with a microphone.
The records, the books, the coffee company: all of it sits inside the same Atlanta sensibility, the same Black Southern voice, the same position-having posture. Dope Coffee Music (DCMG), the family label, has been running since 2020. Mike’s cousin Stace Loyd produces and runs point as VP of Music. This is a family enterprise, producers and writers and roasters under one roof, and the catalog reflects that. No tourist energy. No borrowed swagger. Just a grown Black man from Atlanta with something to say, a microphone, and the patience to say it right.
Featured Release · 2025
Ghost Millennial Heroes
The latest project. The third drop in a 2025 trio with Old Friends and God Shit. Boom-bap that remembers, soulful and jazz-leaning, nostalgic yet progressive. Stace produces. Mike writes the way he runs the company: clear, hold, build.
The catalog
Eight projects, twenty-one years. The arc starts in a dorm room and ends, for now, in a 6,000 square foot Decatur HQ with a vinyl wall.
2005 · Debut
The Mike Loyd Report
Recorded in a Wake Forest dorm-room studio. Released at Shorty’s Cafe, the first and only hip-hop release party to date on Wake Forest’s campus. Twenty-one years later, the Report continues. This site is named after that record.
2020 · The Theological Turn
The Black Jesus EP
The personal record. Five tracks. Tribble Hall, Black Jesus, Black Man. The Black Church of Christ kid coming back to the questions head-on. Press: Camden Monthly.
January 2021 · with Stace Loyd
SPINACH
A nine-track dissertation in hip-hop. Standouts: Spinach, Venus (featuring Chel, his wife), S.O.P., Black Card. Tied to the Ethiopian Dripp coffee SKU, cold brew with Harriet Tubman imagery and QR codes on the can. The album you can drink.
2021
Leona (Far From Home Tour) [Live] · God Shit
2025 Trio
Old Friends · God Shit · Ghost Millennial Heroes
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Creative Mike the Rapper records on Dope Coffee Music (DCMG), the independent label out of the Dope Coffee family enterprise in Atlanta. Cousin Stace Loyd produces.