It’s hard to say what’s going on with Raekwon right now. He doesn’t seem all that excited about either of the Wu-Tang Clan albums that are supposedly on the way. And while he’s got verses on two of this year’s best rap albums — Schoolboy Q’s Oxymoron and Freddie Gibbs and Madl...

Lately, there’s been some low-level public animosity between Wu-Tang figureheads RZA and Raekwon — RZA blaming the lack of a 20th-anniversary reunion album on Rae’s absence, Rae laughing it off. But it’s remarkable how capably Rae carries the spirit of the dark, inward old Wu on his new single “A...

"Now maybe my plan's not working," says producer of new album preparation    

The rapper adds new verses to the Number One song    

Later this year, Raekwon will uphold the great Wu-Tang ridiculous-anagram tradition when he releases his new album F.I.L.A. (Fly International Luxurious Art). Until then, though, he’s holding us over by giving us a free EP that revives rap’s even older dubious-spelling tradition. It’s called Lost Jewlry, and at 12 t...