12.12.2025
Conway The Machine Returns With You Can’t Kill God With Bullets, His Ambitious and Superbly-Crafted New Album, Available on All Platforms via Drumwork Music Group
The 18-Track Album Features Contributions from G Herbo, Timbaland, The Alchemist, Roc Marciano, Conductor Williams, AraabMuzik, Lady London, and More
The Buffalo-Born Veteran’s Latest Album a Triumphant Sheen to His Gritty Lyricism, Celebrating His Unlikely Rise From a Hospital Bed to the Top of the Rap Game
Critical Praise:
“Conway sounds as sharp as ever” – Rolling Stone
“…he’s stayed consistent and staked his claim as one of the fiercest rappers working” – Pitchfork
“The Buffalo-based rapper has built a reputation for his raw lyricism, impeccable flow, and uncompromising dedication to the art of hip-hop.” – Billboard
“…the Buffalo, NY artist has paved his own path and set his own definition of success, building up a following through high-quality mixtapes of raw hip-hop that takes the classic boom bap sound and updates it with the modern grit of his hometown.” – Forbes
“Conway The Machine is on a roll right now. Easily one of the most productive, creatively fluid figures in American rap, his journey – from a near-fatal shooting to immense acclaim – is one of his generation’s most notable arcs.” – Clash
“When some rappers talk about violence, it can feel hollow, but when Conway admits to “crying in the mirror while I look at my face” on the poignant album highlight ‘Stressed’, you feel every single word. It feels like you’re listening to Michael Jackson’s ‘Man in the Mirror’ reimagined for gangsters.” – HUCK
The Announcement:
Rhyming with a novelist’s eye for detail and an architect’s ability to see the big picture, Conway The Machine confidently navigates the rap game’s life-or-death stakes. The proudly-independent icon delivers a treat for new fans and longtime supporters alike, releasing You Can’t Kill God With Bullets, his new studio album.
Spanning 18 tracks, You Can’t Kill God With Bullets is defiant and anthemic, opening with a clip from H. Rap Brown’s fiery speech at the 1968 “Free Huey” rally and escalating from there. Throughout the album, Conway stresses the importance of fighting to overcome adversity, reflecting on his near-death experiences and how they motivated him to exceed his wildest dreams. The album reverberates with the celebratory confidence of an artist with nothing left to prove to anyone but himself, as he crafts a work that gleams like the facets of his many diamonds.
The proper follow-up to 2024’s Slant Face Killah, You Can’t Kill God With Bullets is one of Conway’s most ambitious and expansive albums to date. Conway recruits regular collaborators like The Alchemist, Conductor Williams, Daringer, and Apollo Brown to deliver the sparkling sample-heavy instrumentals that have been Conway’s signature, and opens his doors to heavy-hitters like the legendary Timbaland, J.U.S.T.I.C.E. League (a Platinum-selling crew behind anthems for ’00s heavy-hitters like Jeezy and Rick Ross), and the visionary AraabMuzik, who injects a frenetic energy into album highlight “Nu Devils.” “Nu Devils” welcomes a verse from G Herbo, whose gruff-voiced gravitas belnds seamlessly into Conway’s world.
You Can’t Kill God With Bullets is home to Conway’s two 2025 singles, each produced by Conductor Williams: “Diamonds,” an uber-quotable collab with Roc Marciano, and the horn-drenched “Se7enteen5ive,” which arrived with a Colombia-set music video. New highlights include the cinematic “BMG,” decked with a blaxploitation soundtrack-esque combination of horn fanfares, pizzicato strings, and percolating Fender Rhodes, the sensitive “Attached,” defined by its cascading minor-key piano riff and guest spots from Lady London and KNDRXX, the sinister, Alchemist-produced speaker-knocker “Organized Mess,” and the paranoid, Apollo Brown-produced, Nas-referencing “I Never Sleep” (“Eyes wide shut, I don’t slumber,” he spits).
With additional production from Beat Butcha, E. Jones, Sndtrak, Jr Swift, and Elijah Hooks, and additional guest appearances from DJ Whoo Kid, Tony Yayo, and Heather Victoria, You Can’t Kill God With Bullets is available on all platforms via Drumwork Music Group.
You Can’t Kill God With Bullets follows in the footsteps of acclaimed solo works like 2024’s Slant Face Killah, 2023’s Won’t He Do It, 2022’s God Don’t Make Mistakes, and 2021’s La Maquina. Always keeping busy, the rapper released two albums by his Drumwork signee Jae Skeese in 2024 and 2025, toured Europe over the summer, and most recently, he performed a show celebrating the 10th Anniversary of his album Reject 2 in New York City.
A consummate hustler and survivalist, Conway overcame a rough past–including surviving multiple gunshot wounds to his head and neck–to become one of rap’s most respected lyricists. Now the leader of his own Drumwork Music Group, Conway’s new album reminds the rap game that he is one of the modern greats.
StreamYou Can’t Kill God With Bullets, or buy it on vinyl, cassette, or CD HERE
Watch “Diamonds” ft. Roc Marciano: https://www.youtube.
You Can’t Kill God With Bullets tracklist:
- Gunpowder (Prod. by Elijah Hooks)
- The Lightning Above The Adriatic Sea (Prod. by J.U.S.T.I.C.E. League)
- BMG (Prod. by Sndtrak & Chrissianity)
- Diamonds ft. Roc Marciano (Prod. by Conductor Williams & Zackary Wurdrow)
- Hell Let Loose ft. Whoo Kid & Tony Yayo (Prod. by Conductor Williams & Moo Latte)
- Crazy Avery (Prod. by Timbaland)
- The Painter (Prod. by Daringer)
- The Undying (Prod. by Elijah Hooks)
- Nu Devils ft. G Herbo (Prod. by AraabMuzik & Beat Butcha)
- Otis Driftwood (Prod. by Jr Swift & Rhythm Paints)
- Mahogany Walls (Prod. by Conductor Williams)
- Parisian Nights ft. KNDRXX (Prod. by E Jones)
- Se7enteen5ive (Prod. by Conductor Williams)
- Attached ft. KNDRXX & Lady London (Prod. by E Jones)
- I Never Sleep (Prod. by Apollo Brown)
- Hold Back Tears (Prod. by Beat Butcha, Niko The Great & Alex Mendoza)
- Organized Mess ft. KNDRXX (Prod. by The Alchemist)
- Don’t Even Feel Real (Dreams) ft. Heather Victory [Bonus Track] (Prod. by Sndtrak & Versus)
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