Last week, a Kickstarter was funded to make Meow the Jewels, the cat-oriented remix of Run the Jewels' forthcoming RTJ2, into reality. Now, Mass Appeal has shared a video in which El-P, who's one-half of Run the Jewels, hits up the BARC animal shelter to audition cats for the recording process. Watch it below.

He plays songs from the album on his phone to see how the animals react. Unsurprisingly, many of them don't seem that enthusiastic. "This is going to be tough," he says at one point. "They keep showing me their assholes." You know the old Hollywood adage: Never work with children or animals.

Watch Run the Jewels perform at Pitchfork Music Festival: