Conway The Machine Delivers Spirited Freestyle Over Drake’s “Make Them Pay” Instrumental [Video]
Conway The Machine wastes no time finding his pocket on Drake’s “Make Them Pay” instrumental.
The Buffalo MC takes the Iceman cut and strips it down to what he does best: cold delivery, heavy phrasing, and bars that sound like they were built for a room with no distractions.
The freestyle has been circulating as part of the early I Heard You Paint Houses stretch, Conway’s new DJ Whoo Kid-hosted chapter, with the first batch of tracks already being teased and shared around the rollout. Instead of treating the beat like a quick loosie, Conway leans into it with the kind of controlled pressure that has always separated him from rappers who simply rap well. There is weight in the pauses, dirt in the tone, and enough tension around the Griselda-adjacent subtext to make the performance feel sharper than a random studio exercise.
Drake’s original “Make Them Pay” already sits in combative territory on Iceman, and Conway uses that backdrop without trying to imitate its source. He turns the instrumental into something more bruised and direct, keeping the focus on voice, presence, and the kind of grim detail that made his name feel unavoidable in the first place.
Watch the freestyle below.