Conway The Machine Transforms Into The Terminator in “Sarah!”
Toe-tagging beats with laser-like precision, Conway The Machine is programmed to annihilate his opposition. The Buffalo-born rapper continues to work towards OTIS, his next album, releasing “Sarah!,” a new single produced by Conductor Williams. Populated by horror movie synths, layered over insistent East Coast percussion, “Sarah!” is a lyrical showcase for The Machine, who delivers a super-sized verse filled with some of his hardest bars to date: “I had 3 phones now I don’t speak on those cause feds given out the Rico/The game was designed for you to lose, it ain’t no cheat codes/The game don’t want to acknowledge my numbers now I’m Pete Rose/They know how machine goes.”
The new single arrives with a cinematic new music video. Inspired by the Terminator films, whose heroine Sarah Connor gives the song its title, the video beams Conway in from 2126 into present day Denver, where he methodically hunts down targets like Arnold Schwarzenegger’s famous T-800.
“Sarah!” is a highlight from OTIS, Conway’s next album. OTIS is a monumental effort for the Drumwork Music Group CEO, combining fly wordplay with personal stories over beats from collaborators both new and familiar, including Daringer, Conductor Williams, and more. The album welcomes a very diverse set of guests, including East Coast vets like Kool G Rap and the Wu-Tang trio Ghostface Killah, Method Man, and Raekwon, underground names like Flee Lord and Inkredible NES, and most surprisingly, Robby Takac, of the Buffalo-originating hitmaking rock group Goo Goo Dolls. Last week, Conway dropped “Diggwutumsayn!,” the project’s fiery first single.OTIS, short for “Often Times I Suffer,” arrives on November 20th via Drumwork Music Group.
Last year, Conway blessed the holiday season with his acclaimed album You Can’t Kill God With Bullets. With guest spots from G Herbo, Roc Marciano and more, and production from heavy-hitters that range from regular collaborators like The Alchemist, Conductor Williams, Daringer, and Apollo Brown to further afield sound architects like Timbaland and AraabMuzik, the album earned coverage from Pitchfork, Rolling Stone, XXL, Billboard, and many others. Most recently, Conway dropped I Heard You Paint Houses, a series of takes on beats made famous by other artists, including Drake, Kendrick Lamar, Future, Jodeci, and many others, hosted by DJ Whoo Kid.
OTIS will follow 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 during Summer 2025, and in the fall, 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. The leader of his own Drumwork Music Group, Conway seeks to reminds the rap game that he is one of the modern greats.