Conway The Machine Releases ‘You Can’t Kill God With Bullets’
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.