Read: Everything you need to know about Meow The Jewels
As you all surely know by now, Meow The Jewels is the upcoming project from by far the greatest hip hop duo today, Run The Jewels. The project, originally started via Kickstarter, has enlisted a range of producers the remix their entire 2014 album Run The Jewels 2 – with cat noises.
It sounds insane, we know. Nobody knew exactly how it was going to shape up – will it be pure novelty, or something actually listenable? Is it just completely ridiculous, or will it be great? While the prospect of cat-rap is fairly daunting, when you look at the producers involved, it’s hard to imagine that this would be anything other than amazing. Just Blaze, Dan the Automator, Bauuer, Zola Jesus, The Alchemist and Portishead’s Geoff Barrow are just SOME of the names involved in this ridiculous project.
We’ve heard snippets, bits and pieces here and there, throughout this year. A few weeks back came our first full taste, Meowrly, a take on Early, produced by Boots (who also featured on the original track). It was really, really good and obviously left us hangin’ for way more. Since then, El-P shared the news via Twitter that the entire project is now complete, and ready for mastering.
Now, the brilliant Just Blaze has released this absolutely scorching version of Oh My Darling (Don’t Cry), aptly renamed Oh My Darling (Don’t Meow). It’s… well let’s be honest here. It’s fucking great. I’d happily listen to this just as much as the original.
The release comes along with the extremely exciting news that a release announcement will be coming out next week! Hopefully it won’t be long until we get to hear the entire feline Frankenstein that is Meow The Jewels.
You can download the track here.