Run The Jewels’ ‘Meowpurrdy’ Music Video Combines Cyriak’s LSD Kittens And ‘Meow The Jewels’

Just one of the many nightmarish sights collected in new Run The Jewels' music video, "Meowpurrdy."
Just one of the many nightmarish sights collected in new Run The Jewels' music video, "Meowpurrdy." Cyriak/Run The Jewels

Cyriak , king of the disturbing and hallucinatory Internet video, created the new music video for Run The Jewels’ “Meowpurrddy” from their Kickstarter joke turned remix album Meow The Jewels . The video is loaded with monsters with kittens as their component parts, what the Adult Swim YouTube Channel posting describes as “an LSD-nightmare miasma of cat limbs and teeth fractalizing into feline Cthulu-esque monstrosities.”

See for yourself:

Run The Jewels – “Meowpurrdy”

Cyriak’s work has gone from disorienting bits of Internet ephemera to mainstream horrorshow.

2010’s hand fingers is the perfect introduction to Cyriak’s basic visual idiom.

Since then Cyriak has had more and more opportunities to dose the global population with his paradoxical vision, including music videos for Bonobo, Flying Lotus and Bloc Party, and a series of bumpers for Adult Swim.

Cyriak is also responsible for the chilling Bob Odenkirk and David Cross mutations in the opening for Netflix Original Series W/ Bob & David.

“Meowpurddy” is the perfect project for Cyriak and his haunting relationship with cats and kittens (his 2011 video “ Welcome to Kitty City ” was my introduction). “Meowpurddy” comes from Meow the Jewels, a full-length Run The Jewels remix album primarily composed of cat sounds.

In its review of Meow the Jewels Pitchfork awarded the album a score of “cat emoticon.” While it may have started as a joke, the album united the talents of Prince Paul, The Alchemist, Just Blaze, Zola Jesus, Dan the Automator and Portishead’s Geoff Barrow. All proceeds from the sale of Meow the Jewels will go to charity, with some of the proceeds benefitting the families of Eric Garner and Mike Brown.

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