Run The Jewels Announces The Meow The Jewels Kickstarter Has Hit Its Target Goal

It really looks like every joke is only partly a joke. Because nothing else explains the fact that Meow The Jewels is really happening.

At the very beginning El-P, a member of hip-hop duo Run The Jewels, said it’d be nice to re-record the outfit’s upcoming second album RTJ2 using only sounds produced by cats. Then guy started a campaign on Kickstarter in September to pledge the needed sum – $40 000.

El-P has made a statement via Twitter that if the project will be funded, he’ll make an album:

And here it is – more than enough is pledged, and the record will be released! That’s literally what El-P exclaimed through Twitter yesterday:

Involving participants like Portishead’s drummer Geoff Barrow, Dan The Automator, Just Blaze, Zola Jesus and others interested in the project, as reported by Stereogum, and promising to send all the funds to charity (to the victims of the police brutality, to be specific), El-P has undoubtedly heated the interest to Meow The Jewels. Now a lot of people will be expecting for the unprecedented cat noise rap album. Run The Jewels, bring it on!

The full list of the artists taking part in the upcoming record is the following:
El-P himself
Geoff Barrow
Zola Jesus
Bauuer
Boots
Just Blaze
The Alchemist
Skywlkr
Dan The Automator
Prince Paul
Nick Hook

Watch the epic Meow The Jewels trailer below.