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Stacy Loyd

Dope Coffee is now available at Buie's Market in Winston-Salem!

We want to share some exciting news with our friends and fans in North Carolina ... Dope Coffee is now available at Buie's Market in Winston-Salem!   Buie's Market is a special grocery store, as well as being an historic landmark in Winston-Salem for many years, and we're thrilled the Buie's team has added Dope Coffee, a special coffee, to their amazing selection of food and beverage products.   We're launching Dope Coffee throughout North Carolina and need your help. Here's a link to our Dope Coffee Grocer Request Form. It would be dope if you'd print one out, fill it out, and drop it off at...

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Stacy Loyd
Dope Coffee’s 50 Years of Hip-Hop Music Concert Series

Dope Coffee’s 50 Years of Hip-Hop Music Concert Series

Dope Coffee Music, a division of Dope Coffee Company, is launching a 50 Years of Hip-Hop Music concert series in Decatur, Georgia, featuring local indie artists across various music genres, including rap, jazz, R&B, and experimental. Hosted by Creative Mike The Rapper, CEO of Dope Coffee, the event aims to promote talented artists who may not have the opportunity to perform on stage while also honoring the pioneers of hip-hop culture. The spring concert series will run bi-weekly until the early summer, with general admission tickets being free and premium seats available for purchase, which come with complimentary coffee and...

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Stacy Loyd
The Re-making of CPG. Bringing Hip-Hop To Mass Retail Through Digital Cultural Products

The Re-making of CPG. Bringing Hip-Hop To Mass Retail Through Digital Cultural Products

As a child I would walk the aisles of the grocery stores with my mother as she did her weekly shopping, I was a curious and creative young fellow with a nack for merchandising and artistic design, I constantly scanned the packaging of the top food and beverage companies from Kraft and Nabisco to Coca-Cola and Pepsi and always took a little extra time to study the packages that had Black and Brown faces on them such as Uncle Bens, Aunt Jemimah and Cream of Wheat. I’d linger on each aisle scanning the tops and bottoms of the packaging and...

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Stacy Loyd
YOUR FAVORITE ATLANTA RAPPER GRIP INKS RETAIL PARTNERSHIP WITH I DIED FOR THIS COFFEE!?

YOUR FAVORITE ATLANTA RAPPER GRIP INKS RETAIL PARTNERSHIP WITH I DIED FOR THIS COFFEE!?

Atlanta Ga, March 8th 2023 I Died For This Coffee!? Announcement Fresh off the More Black Superheroes Tour and a major record deal with Shady Records, GRIP the burgeoning wordsmith out of East Atlanta recently announced a major retail collaboration with Atlanta’s hip-hop-infused coffee roaster also known as Dope Coffee. The partnership entails combining GRIP’s back catalog classic, I Died For This!?, with a tantalizing blend of East African coffees that are to die for, pun intended. This hip-hop infusion is an entirely new work of art on its own know as, I Died For This Coffee, which is a...

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