Walking through the door of the Dope Coffee Roastery and Brewery, I expected to have a conversation — and a latte, of course — with the shop’s co-founders and owners, Stace Loyd and Michael Loyd, Jr., about the intersection of coffee and hip-hop. Hours later, I left the cozy new Decatur coffee shop with an empty cup and the realization that I had actually been missing the big picture. While Mike and Stace Loyd are most certainly hip-hop artists and coffee professionals, they are also — perhaps, most importantly — manufacturers. Prior to relocating to Atlanta, the pair of first cousins grew up in Winston-Salem, North Carolina — a historical manufacturing hub in the Tarheel state and also the birthplace of Grammy award-winning hip-hop superproducer 9th Wonder.
ATL UNTRAPPED: Hip-hop’s newest manufacturers — The Dope Coffee co-founders detail the family business
