Conway The Machine has returned to cap off 2023 with his sixth project of the year, Palermo, which finds the Buffalo rapper teaming up with producer Wun Two.
Named after the capital of Sicily, Italy, the festive Christmas gift from Conway to the Griselda fans hit streaming services on Friday (December 22).
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The project is combines 10 tracks into a compact 22-minute runtime, with limited features from KNDRX and Goosebytheway. Palermo includes previously released singles such as “Brick By Brick” and “Mindtricks.”
Stream the album below.
This marks Conway’s second project in December, as he kicked off the month with CONDUCTOR MACHINE which finds Conductor Williams handling production duties.
“I already been a fan of Conductor and we done some stuff for Westside Gunn albums and projects and shit like that, so it was easy,” Machine explained.
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The Buffalo native also said that the EP came about through his manager Chad Kemp, who also runs Conway’s label Drumwork Music Group.
“He connected all the dots with all that,” Conway said of Kemp.
Conway The Machine appreciation for Conductor Williams’ work definitely predates this EP, though. In an interview, he shared that he had actually DMed Drake to share his reaction to the superstar’s work with Williams on the song “8AM In Charlotte.”
“Shout out to Conductor, the beat was crazy,” he told Acton Entertainment. “I think I posted a DM — I DMed them or something, with the mind blown emojis. Like, ‘Bro, it’s not even — it’s starting to not even be fair no more.’ But nah, dog, that shit was fire.”
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Conway has more projects on the way. In October, J.U.S.T.I.C.E. League producer Erik “Rook” Ortiz told HipHopDX that he and his partner Kevin “Colione” Crowe are preparing a project for the Griselda MC.
He made it clear that it will arrive after Conway’s Won’t He Do It 2, a planned sequel to the rapper’s project from this past May.
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“We can do it all, we can carry a whole album and we can make it sound phenomenal,” Ortiz began. “Next up for us is Conway The Machine. We’re doing that whole album with Conway.”
