Conway The Machine on New Album You Can’t Kill God With Bullets

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Griselda’s Conway the Machine breaks down his new album, You Can’t Kill God With Bullets.
As Instructed To: Peter A. Berry
Editor’s Notice: This story seems within the Fall 2025 challenge of XXL Journal, on newsstands now and obtainable on the market on the XXL web site.

I took somewhat extra time with the artistic strategy of You Can’t Kill God With Bullets. I needed it to be particular. I put lots of emphasis on the lyrics, so there’s much more maturity. It’s extra visceral. The lyrics are dripping with extra venom now. I’m on a special brainwave proper now. That is Conway the Machine 3000. I needed to make songs that individuals relate to no matter they’re doing in life, whether or not it’s a celebratory second, otherwise you’re with a chick, whether or not you’ve misplaced anyone, otherwise you’re depressed. It’s received that outdated really feel like Reject 2 and G.O.A.T. It’s all that sh*t on steroids. However this one’s simply completely different as a result of it’s received the maturity and a special number of producers. There’s lots of completely different sounds; it simply comes collectively so effectively. That’s what makes it somewhat completely different, too.

I simply realized you bought to captivate the folks. You’ve received to essentially set the tone. I need to stand out. I would like the top second of the 12 months. Particularly in a 12 months like this with so most of the giants that’s popping out. The perfect of the very best are dropping music. Now, they’re again within the lab, and so they’re dropping unimaginable tasks. I really feel like I’ve received to point out and show now. For me to be accepted in that vein, it’s time for me to captivate everyone else. Earlier than, I might simply be rapping with the boldness that I’m good. I do know I’m good, I’m simply spitting. However now it’s with intent. It’s with objective. Each line, the whole lot I’m saying, beat chosen, the whole lot I’m doing is with intent. And the intention is to etch my title in concrete for as soon as and for all.

What retains me going as a rapper is the love. Even when I wasn’t getting paid to do it, I might have studio tools. I might be nonetheless writing raps and making songs and sh*t and recording and sh*t. So, I simply love hip-hop. I like the entire artistic factor of it. And sh*t, the cash. Sh*t, the hustle don’t cease, don’t matter. [There] is rarely no end line for me in sight. I’ll hold going and going and going till I discover a new problem and a brand new journey. The studio saved my life. Music saved my life. Hip-hop saved my life. Ain’t no telling what I’d be doing if I didn’t have this outlet. Simply having a sanctuary the place I can go create and be myself, communicate my thoughts, and simply do what I like to do.

You Can’t Kill God With Bullets exhibits the sturdiness that I’m capable of have all through this profession. I’ve been on this journey. I’ve been in an area recently the place I’ve felt like the whole lot’s been in opposition to me. There’s been photographs taken, not simply verbal. Life begins lifeing and also you simply received to navigate by all of the obstacles. By means of all of the ups and downs and all of the bullsh*t, nothing might cease me. You may’t kill a god with bullets.

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The autumn 2025 challenge of XXL journal that includes Conway The Machine’s interview is accessible to buy right here. The difficulty additionally consists of Joey Bada$$ and J.I.D’s cowl story interviews, conversations with Probability The Rapper, Curren$y, Hit-Boy, Rob49, KenTheMan, Wallo267, Bay Swag, Hanumankind, Babyfxce E, Ghostface Killah, Hurricane Knowledge, Pluto, TiaCorine, Isaiah Falls, comic Josh Joshson, Vice President of Music at SiriusXM and Pandora Joshua “J1” Raiford, a have a look at the change in album rollouts over time highlighted by Clipse’s Let God Kind Em Out album and extra.

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