Production for Meow The Jewels is set to begin this month.
The parody project, which replaces the original beats from Run The Jewels 2 with cat sounds, was initially offered by Run The Jewels on their Kickstarter page for a $40,000 donation.
After a fan started his own campaign to make the album actually happen, thousands of backers helped him surpass the mark by pledging more than $65,000 towards it.
El-P and Killer Mike have acknowledged the Meow The Jewels album a number of times on social media and even spoke with Noisey in September about the possibility of the project coming to fruition.
“I can’t believe those crazy fucking bastards are doing it,” Killer Mike said at the time. “If they actually pull it off, we’re going to actually do it. I’m overwhelmed by it. On one front, it’s wild and silly. On another front, it shows the power of independence.”
Several high profile producers, including Just Blaze, Alchemist, Baauer and El-P, have already committed to reworking the critically acclaimed RTJ2.
Recently, El-P shared an update of the project via Twitter.
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fuck this corny shit
It’d be corny if they just did it just to do it…but when your fans come up with the idea and actually raise 65 grand for it, I think it’s pretty fuckin cool that they’re actually going through with it
Yea kinda funny this is actually happening. I think they were also gonna donate the money as well…
i think it just means your fans are corny too…?
“Several high profile producers, including Just Blaze, Alchemist, Baauer and El-P, have already committed to reworking the critically acclaimed RTJ2.”
Oh fuck. When I saw Alchemist on that phrase, I knew this project is doomed. Everything that guy touches, comes out shitty!
Bro…WTF are you talking about? How about Prodigy’s Albert Einstein album?? If you’re saying you’re not digging his shit lately because he kind of switched up his sound lately, I do get what you mean. He has been off the wall lately. But still, he’s been putting out a lot of great music and has kept his originality at an all time high.
Bizarre to say the least. But at least they have very supportive fans. That in itself goes a long way in the music biz whether your music sucks or not.