Conway The Machine – Look What I Became Review.

Conway The Machine will be dropping an album titled God Don’t make Mistakes very soon in 2019. He dropped a single ‘Bang’ featuring Eminem from the album. But before God Don’t make Mistakes comes out, he has put out a mix tape Look What I Became that is released by Griselda Records, founded by Conway’s brother Westside Gunn.

Conway The Machine went to the good old-school of hardcore hip-hop artists. His lyrics are more closer to bands like Wu-Tang Clan and artists like 50 Cent. He used assassin imagery as covers for his previous mixtapes. Three of his past mixtapes, namely his Everybody is F.O.O.D trilogy, had blurred Travis Bickle (Robert De Niro) images as covers, from the film Taxi Driver. He also used his own shirtless photo showing his gun shot wounds for the mixtape Reject 2.

The opening track ‘No Women No Kids’ is another possible reference to Tony Montana (Al Pacino) shooting Sosa’s man in the pre-climax scene of Scarface. In the second track ‘Hawks’ Conway raps, “Militant mind, I’m the modern day Malcolm/ I’m the nigga that they doubted/ I created my own lane on these niggas, now my lane crowded (Get out my lane)/ And I ain’t even drop a album/ But the flow polished like the nigga on his eighth album.” The intro of the song ‘Black Spoons’ echoes the assassin connection. “Assassins/ Yeah, uh/ Look.”

Look What I Became is a precursor to God Don’t make Mistakes

Few songs with features are lyrically dense and complex. In ‘Tito’s Back’ Benny The Butcher and Conway Machine share lines in the same lengthy verse. This creates an urgency that the usual your-verse-before-my-verse narrative can’t create. ‘Vino D’, featuring three artists Jim Jones, Dave East and El Camino, is a standout track in the album with a smooth flowing chorus by El Camino and a hard-hitting verse by Dave East.

In 2012, Conway The machine was shot in the neck and head that resulted in a facial paralysis called Bell’s Palsy. He uses his violent background to add fuel to his lyrics and music. He recalls the unfortunate night on which he was shot in ‘Bell’s Palsy.’ Clearly, Conway puts his gangsta background to work everyday.

‘You MadeIt’, featuring Amber Simone, is a surprise track in the mix tape. Conway The Machine shows his softer side by paying homage to all the struggling woman. Overall, Look What I Became, at just nine tracks and three of them are just audio snippets, does its job. It’s a short and well produced mix tape that gives us a flavor of what we we can expect from the upcoming album God Don’t make Mistakes.

Musicjo.com Rating: 7.5/10

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Look What I Became Tracklist