Conway The Machine repeatedly shows his admiration and respect for Hip Hop’s forefathers and now, the love is coming right back to him. During a recent episode of The Drink Champs podcast with N.O.R.E. and DJ EFN, the Griselda MC hopped on a FaceTime call with Nas who promptly gave him his flowers.
Conway took the moment to Instagram and captioned a clip of their exchange with, “I’m the one new nigga that the OGs feel comfortable passing the torch to… ME! Salute king @nas trust me I heard u loud and clear general! s/o my nigga @therealnoreaga.”
While speaking with T.I. for his expediTIously podcast in April, Conway and fellow Griselda member Benny The Butcher talked about the importance of getting recognized by their predecessors.
[Raekwon’s] like a Jordan poster nigga for me,” Conway said.”Any of the [Wu-Tang] Clan. Any of the OGs who laid the cement down. That’s the shit that mean the most to me, I appreciate the support from the fans and the people but I’m really trying to impress the niggas I grew up inspired by.
“I want niggas like that saying you killed that shit — I can really believe it cause I know this is a master craftsman himself telling me that, so I know it ain’t no cap. It mean a lot when a nigga like Raekwon throw his arm around the homies and hold us down. That’s next level to me.”
Tip also brought up Nas and Benny was equally as enthusiastic about being able to be in the same room with one of his heroes.
“It’s crazy, I just met that nigga the other day,” he said. “Kicked it with him. I was kicking it with Swizz and was like ‘introduce me to Esco.’ He talked about how he fucked with the music. He came and did a show and shouted us out on stage.
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“He fuck with [Green Lantern] and Green like our DJ too, we got a mutual relationship with him. [Nas] was just telling us he aware, he fuck with what we do, it’s a breath of fresh air, he’d love to work. I just let him know how he inspired me. It’s crazy to meet that nigga.”
Conway released his debut solo album From King To A God in September, which peaked at No. 126 on the Billboard 200. The 14-track project featured contributions from Armani Caesar, Benny The Butcher, El Camino, Freddie Gibbs, Havoc, Lloyd Banks, Method Man and Westside Gunn, among others.
N’as passed the torch to everyone from meek mill, j Cole, thé machine bit no one on is label tho lol
He supposedly passed it to Quan on the song “just a moment” from Streets Disciple. “Another warriors song, from nasty and Quan/ it’s to him I pass the baton, to carry it strong”. But his career was a major flop, and apparently Nas didn’t even call him when his kid died so they aren’t cool anymore. Sucks because he was pretty dope with a lot of potential.
Forgot all about Quan, that song was crazy good.
Nas and Quan were touring together and Nas would bring Quan out to do the song and something supposedly happened that made Nas cut ties with Quan.
Rap fans always butthurt when they find out rappers are humans just like us – sometimes they are not real friends – just like regular folk after posing in pictures
That was all on Quan. He didnt like being called Nas’ protege & was sayin slick ish on interviews, even after Nas gave him a major placement on his album which is something he did not have to do. So Nas was like aiigt lil bro go do it yaself and we havent heard from him since. #DontBiteTheHandThatFeedYou
Conway is 38 (according to wiki), he just came up 4 years ago at 34. Nas had already dropped God’s Son and started making grown man rap instead of gangster shit by the time he was 34.
different men ….lived different lives, Nas been living on that rap money longer then Conway.. men mature differently demographically headshot …? ??♂️
the Butcher would have been a better choice from Griselda
Just let it be what it is Conway deserve his…..this isn’t a butcher moment
How many torches does my man Nas have to pass? Benny’s doper anyway…but Conway out here rapping for the OG’s so he gets the torch. The torches Nas usually passes burn out quick anyway, Conway might wanna give that shit back
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Conway is like 65 years old
But the music is A1
You’re right Pherro, Nas really should have passed the torch to our boy Pharoe, he’s clearly the goat, we all know and love all his music. What was Nas thinking?????
Don’t matter at all bro
He not but so TF if he was mf?…. what dat mean??
By the way I agree that Benny is the better rapper, but Conway makes better music by far. WSG is the worst rapper of the three but has the dopest projects. Conway is in the middle in both categories (music quality and bars).
Roc Marciano is better than all 3 combined.
lmaoooooooooo
Sad, that people are really mad at there age, sound like hate
Prasising Griselda rappers in 2020 is the cool thing to do. I wonder why they didn’t on previous years when they put out even better music.
I guess it wasn’t cool to be associated with them yet.
Dope
Conway the dude for sure. Definitely happy Nas gave him his credit. On a side note, El Camino the coldest that don’t get his credit. Easily better than Westside Gunn.
In order for nicest in the click
Conway
Benny
Boldy James
38 Spesh
El-Camino
Roc Marciano
Westside Gunn
Ricky Hyde