A kickstarter for the album—essentially a feline-led recreation of ‘RTJ2’—brought the project to life last year, after raising over $65,000 from fans. El-P confirmed last week that the project was testing his limits.
i just listened to 8 straight meow the jewels songs. i am now crazy.
— el-p (@therealelp) July 16, 2015
The debut offering of ‘Meow The Jewels’, ‘Meowlry‘ (a remix of ‘Early‘) is as gloriously dumb and amazing as you’d expect; featuring and produced by Boots. The clincher of the work, however, is in regards to its profits – part of which will be donated to victims’ families of police brutality, including the families of Eric Garner and Mike Brown.
meow the jewels really only exists to give 40k to victims of police brutality. real shit.
— el-p (@therealelp) July 18, 2015
.@0es1gns every dime of profit off meow the jewels goes to charity. physical, digital, merch… everything.
— el-p (@therealelp) July 18, 2015
Run The Jewels’ third album sadly won’t be upon us until at least 2016.
Listen to ‘Meowlry’ below. <3
