Watch the new Run The Jewels video for “Meowpurrdy”

By: Staff –

Run The Jewels. (Photo: Tom Spray)

Last September hip-hop auteurs Run The Jewels made music history when they unleashed the world’s first cat-rap charity album Meow The Jewels. Today, in conjunction with Adult Swim, the duo released a mind-altering video by esteemed cult video artist Cyriak for the album’s lead track “Meowpurrdy,” a remix by El-P that deposits his and Killer Mike’s vocal performances in the midst of a rhythmic vapor of meows, purrs, and hisses. Watch the video below.

Cyriak’s visual treatment is an LSD-nightmare miasma of cat limbs and teeth fractalizing into feline Cthulu-esque monstrosities engaged in an epic battle between cat heaven and cat hell.

The video arrives on the heels of the announcement that the duo will be returning to Coachella for a second subsequent year, as well as performing this week at ESPN’s X Games in Colorado. Between shows the duo has stayed busy – Killer Mike’s very vocal endorsement of presidential candidate Bernie Sanders has yielded several television appearances, from fielding questions on Sanders’ behalf on NBC after the recent Democratic debate, to schooling Late Night With Stephen Colbert’s audience about the candidate’s platform, to interviewing Sanders on his own YouTube channel in a series of videos that have since gone viral. Meanwhile El-P has hunkered down in the studio to work on the group’s ravenously anticipated third album.