Official music video for “Meowpurrdy” from the Meow The Jewels album by Run The Jewels. Featuring Lil Bub, Maceo, and Delonte.
Animated by British artist Cyriak, the clip features a beastly, three-eyed cat, around which a kaleidoscopic collection of smaller cats gather, multiply and morph extra eyes, legs, tails and heads. This frightening feline, however, is no match for an angelic gray tabby, who descends from the sky and destroys the beast by being swallowed and coughed back up like an explosive hairball.
Killer Mike and El-P have donated all earnings from Meow the Jewels directly to the families of Michael Brown and Eric Garner, two high-profile victims of police brutality. Additional profits have gone to the National Lawyers Guildâs Mass Defense Committee.
Killer Mike and El-P made their new RTJ4 album available in a bid to boost morale, citing the world as being âinfected with bullshitâ and concluding that their music might bring fans âsome joyâ.
El-P wrote in an Instagram post: âFuck it, why wait. The world is infested with bullshit so hereâs something raw to listen to while you deal with it all. We hope it brings you some joy. Stay safe and hopeful out there and thank you for giving 2 friends the chance to be heard and do what they love. With sincere love and gratitude, Jaime + Mike.â
Official music video for Don’t Get Captured by Run The Jewels, off the RTJ3 album.
El-P and Killer Mike of Run the Jewels are reborn as claymation characters in their new video for Donât Get Captured, a grim meditation on abuses of power.
The two rappers are observers in the clip, rolling slowly through a dark, violent claymation landscape full of skeletons like in a haunted house. The skeleton world is ruled by a small cadre of self-satisfied politicians who wear top hats and smoke cigars. The video depicts gentrification, racial profiling by law enforcement and a biased court system that doles out lethal punishments. This gives extra force to Run the Jewelsâ frequently repeated warning: âDonât get captured.â
