The Mike Loyd Report · Vol. Two
MIKE LOYD
- 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.
Manifest
Same through-line, every lane: hip-hop, the coffee shop, the book, the unit, the family.
What I Do
Five lanes. One catalog.
Rapper
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 catalogWriter
Author of Enemies of God.
A reclamation of the destroyed Jewish communities of West Africa. 1492. Two exiles, same year.
Read the bookBuilder
Co-founder, Dope Coffee.
Atlanta specialty roaster, est. 2018. Where hip-hop meets the coffee shop. Family business with Chel and cousin Stace.
realdope.coffeeMarine · 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).
Family
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.
The Book
1492. Two exiles, same year. One you’ve heard of. The other you haven’t.
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.
- 2025Ghost Millennial HeroesLP
- 2025Old FriendsSingle
- 2021God ShitSingle
- 2021Leona (Far From Home Tour)Live
- 2021SpinachLP
- 2020The Black Jesus EPEP
- 2008The Backpacker EPEP
- 2005The Mike Loyd ReportDebut
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. The cultural infrastructure behind the work.
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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.