What started as a joke quickly became reality, as producer El-P put up a crowdfunding page and fans put over $65,000 toward the project.
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Run The Jewels would like to thank our friends, fans, and fam who made this possible.
It’s been twelve months since we initially reported on Meow The Jewels – a remix project in which Run the Jewels 2 would be recreated sampling cat noises – and it’s finally here!
The band claim that this is the first Cat Rap album clearly having forgotten about Beastie Boys’ Paws Boutique.
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“Meow The Jewels” features Snoop Dogg, Massive Attack’s 3D, Portishead’s Geoff Barrow, Blood Diamonds, Boots, Zola Jesus, Just Blaze and more. You can pre-order a 2 LP edition on “tawny brown” vinyl with “faux-fur hands” on the jacket over here. To be fair – it is mostly cat sounds, and in an interview with Deadspin El-P stated that his personal rule was “only use sounds that were cat sounds”, though there was a loose definition of what that meant. It’s oxymoronic. It’s uncalled for and essential. It’s not a cat version of RTJ2, it’s a remix album of RTJ2… with cats.
