I feel like Rae tried really hard to be relevant for a couple years a while back but I guess he just said fukk it and went back to eating cheeseburgers
He's still running his label and shit, heavy twitter presence. But he doesn't seem to realize you cannot starve the streets as an independent artist. You gotta be releasing shit all the time. There's a reason Curren$y releases a bunch of shit, there's a reason KRIT was releasing big mixtapes yearly before he got a deal, etc. Rae thinks he's worth more than he is, and somehow his mere existence will make him hot.
He did the Combat Jack show a few months ago, for instance. Great interview, lots of stories, and Just Blaze was nerding out with him. Then at the end they asked him to freestyle and he was like "I don't rap for free yo..." and they basically had to beg him to do an old verse. I'm sorry but if JUST BLAZE asks you for a freestyle, you should probably do it. It's that type of arrogance that leads him to snub Wu tours and talk shit about the next Wu album. A full Wu Tang tour would be easy money for all of them. It's not 1997 anymore but they would still make dough.
And another thing: for all his complaining about RZA beats, he keeps picking the shittiest beats possible. You got weed carriers getting dope Alchemist beats yet Rae can't? Harry Fraud gives beats to Mayhem Lauren (who I really like, don't get me wrong)...but Rae can't get any? Apollo Brown, Quelle Chris, Tommy Mas, Roc Marciano, Statik? He's still rapping over 2005 mixtape quality beats in 2013. Getting struggle beats from Scram Jones and shit.