Cxffeeblack

VAULT 004

Before there was a roastery, there was a folding table.
Before there was a brand, there was a blessing.

My mother priced her work herself. Looked the buyer in the eye when the cash changed hands. No middleman, no platform taking a cut. They called it informal. We call it the prototype.

The flea market. The basket aisle at the church bake sale. The brother selling oils from the trunk. That table built Black wealth a hundred years before anybody had an app for it.

Friday we put it on two shirts.

Degentrify Coffee is the politic out loud. The shirt you wear into the cafe pricing your culture at a cup missing the soul.

Gifts from the Heart is the practice underneath it. A basket on the chest. And on the back, a blessing half Oromo, half Memphis:

May your hood lack no coffee nor the peace of God.
The roastery was never the goal. It’s just the table getting bigger.

Pull up to Side Hustle Flea Market for a special love print of the blessing.

Available online for 72 hours only.
$35 each. $60 for the pair.
Link in bio. ☕🧺

Would you rock? Tryna see sum 👀

Turns out all our mothers made baskets. Before the internet. Before YouTube University. Before ChatGPT and digital consultants. There were mothers making a way out of rivers of no way. 🧺

In Dzobego, Ghana 🇬🇭, that’s a coffee harvest in those baskets. Same basket your grandmother carried at the flea market. Same basket the Hadha Siqqee carries in the Guji Zone.

On the road into the village, the flower stands stretch for yards. Handmade, wrapped with care, lined up where everybody passes. Nobody rented a storefront. The product is the marketing. The road is the shelf.

Nobody taught the others. We’ve all been running the same business. 🧺☕️

Tables set up on corners for the holidays. Whole family packed in, sweating at the flea market.

That’s how the next generation of entrepreneurs got made.

Supply chains were being remembered before the coffee economists ever warned us the harvests were running out. The future isn’t being created. It’s being remembered. The mother land was never interrupted, because the women never stopped. 🖤☕️

This Saturday we’re bringing it back. Side Hustle Flea, live at Cxffeeblack HQ. Comment if you pulling up or you wanna vend. We got us. ✊🏾

Comment BASKET if you pulling up to the FLEA family. 🏡

We’ve always had us. And our mothers have always had the space route.

Community and accountability through family innovation has been the hustle holiday set ups on the corners before church.
And we will continue holy hustle to until we make it wholly Home.

All community vendors welcome family. Especially if you selling dashikis or knock off jordans 💫

Neighbors vend for free.

Only 5 spots remaining.

Dj sets by and IAMSHYSPEAKS

Car detailing available by my neighbor Mr. D

Welcome back home family 🏡☕️

Open 7:30-4 all week.

Available for 72 hours.

“You know in a lot of ways coffee is like hip hop. When you think about it, what is a seed, but nature’s sample? Like a thumb drive. All this information from the past distilled into this small piece, and you can plug it into the ground, plug it into yourself, and use that life, that energy, to propel you. And what do we do when grinding it? We chop it up, like a sample, and then distill those bits and pieces down to its most soluble parts. Afterwards, we download all the data, the notes and tastes of all the plants and animals and beings that left their mark in the ground before it, get downloaded in our bodies, passing their energy to create new futures. That’s hip hop. Chopping the notes of the past, to be downloaded and recontextualized in the present, as a canvas for our seeds to reimagine a new peace, a new nagaya in the future.”

— Bartholomew Jones, Cxffeeblack to Africa Documentary, 2021

Harvest footage from this years bounty via

Soundtrack from and Cxffeeblack to Africa Soundtrack.

We honor the Root/route, and we celebrate its Fruit.

The knowledge that there’s no mistakes, no missed stops, only the elevation of the Story’s glorious conclusion. That our journey, destination, and ultimate Origin are worthy of honor, of retracing, of reconnecting, and remixing.

Next month will be doing our first screening of our three documentaries for the first time in almost over a year, with a very special guest. We cannot wait to share these moments with you. This drop from the vault is honors that journey, and celebrate our next return.

Available for 72 hours only.

You coming?

Seeking community input. 👀

Should we bring back weekly coffee class? 🤔

Pull up today for exploratory coffee vibes for the pay what you can type beat. If yall rock well bring it back next week fAnd be sure the slide this weekend for multi sensory producer scenarios with ft and

All live in the at the

The menu for the vibe live. 😮‍💨 Slide through. Grab a brew. Bring the crew.

vault is open. 🔓🖤

six months in the new club.
ten years in the making.

and in a moment where it feels like the whole country is divesting from memphis
we’re watching our people do the opposite.

our coffee cousins are investing in home.
doubling down on community.
building something rooted.

that deserves to be celebrated.

because growth in memphis, and cities like it
isn’t a hope.
it’s not a maybe.

it’s the future we’re living in.
and it’s a future worth pouring into.

we betting the house on it.

so for 72 hours only
we opening the archive.

rare releases.
pieces we keep spinning back to.
new drops from family across the diaspora.
and cans we’ve never put in your hands before.

this ain’t a restock.
this a moment.

live weekend. 72 hours only:

— three archive tees
brew plot plan
decolonize coffee industry
cxffeeblack excellence family reunion
$35 flat.

— three gold brew cans (500 each. don’t sleep.)
black gold (straight)
rose gold (fruit edition)
OG (the original)

— three diaspora coffees
dulcey rosado 🇨🇴 — pink bourbon w/
fruit angel 🇺🇬 — AFCA #1 best in africa 2025
oh qué será 🇨🇴 — 50hr co-ferment. salpicón-coded.

and all weekend at the club — 3386 bowen:

fri 6:30 — holler × kula chakula
5-course kenyan dinner w/ .githinji & 🍽️

sat 7pm — fresh produce beat battle, rd 2
STL × Memphis 🎛️

sun 11–4 — cafe con leche

when the 72 hours close—
the archive goes back to the archive.

next week:
fri — cypher + coffee class (3-6)
sat — midnight marauder (7–10)

cups up.
see you at the club. 🖤

because flavor has always been the art we’ve built futures around, and we don’t plan on stopping any time soon.