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Pharoahe has always been signed.

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Actually, I am pretty sure that he was basically a free agent after Rawkus folded. From what I hear, he was (and maybe still is) in talks with Shady Records to sign to Denaun Porter's label (Runyon Ave, I believe). All of these talks were going on around the end of last year I think, and then I heard there was supposedly a bidding war going on, but I never really heard whether or not he signed anywhere. But from what I heard, it sounded like they were all but waiting for him to sign the papers (to Shady/Runyon Ave), but then I never heard anything after that.