Conway the Machine Announces New Album “OTIS,” Loading Up With Wu-Tang Legends
Conway the Machine has announced his new album, OTIS, and the title alone tells you where his head is at. OTIS stands for “Often Times I Suffer,” and the 11-track project is set for release on November 20, 2026, through Drumwork Music Group. It is a deliberately plainspoken title for an artist who has built his career on turning hardship into craft, and it frames the album not as a victory lap but as a statement from someone still working through what it cost to get here.
The first taste is already out. Lead single “Diggwutumsayn!” was released on October 30, produced by Daringer, Conway’s longtime collaborator and the architect of much of the Griselda sound. The track and its official video set the tone for OTIS: direct, unhurried and built around Conway’s voice rather than around a trend. It is the kind of opening move that tells listeners the album will not be chasing a hit, but making a case.
The guest list is the headline within the headline. Conway has announced features from Ghostface Killah, Raekwon and Method Man — three of Wu-Tang Clan’s most recognisable voices — alongside Kool G Rap, Flee Lord, Inkredible N.E.S., Shots Almigh and Robby Takac of the Goo Goo Dolls, a fellow Buffalo artist. It is a lineup that bridges generations and cities: New York’s foundational voices, Buffalo’s current underground standard-bearers, and a rock musician from Conway’s own hometown.
That timing matters. The album arrives during Rock & Roll Hall of Fame induction week for Wu-Tang Clan, and OTIS leans directly into that lineage rather than treating it as distant history. Conway has always rapped as if he were carrying a tradition forward, not borrowing it for a moment, and putting Ghostface, Raekwon and Method Man on the same project as Kool G Rap — another architect of the New York street-rap style Conway grew up on — makes that connection explicit. For a Buffalo MC, whose city has produced its own distinct, hard-edged sound through Griselda and Drumwork, the album is both a homecoming and a claim to a place in that wider story.
Production will come from Daringer and Conductor Williams, two producers whose work has helped define the current sound of this kind of rap: sparse, sample-driven and built to leave room for the voice. Their involvement, along with Daringer’s work on the lead single, suggests OTIS will be sonically consistent rather than scattered — an album meant to be heard as a whole, in the way Conway’s best projects are.
OTIS is due on November 20, 2026, via Drumwork Music Group, with “Diggwutumsayn!” out now as the lead single. If the title is a promise, the album will not soften Conway’s story to make it easier to hear. It will do what his music has always done: let the suffering speak, and let the craft carry it.