Play Public Instance
Information about plays
list: List of plays
retrieve: Information about a specific play by ID
GET /v2/plays/3590184/?format=api
{ "id": 3590184, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3590184/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-12-12T14:43:30-08:00", "show": 65356, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65356/?format=api", "image_uri": "https://ia803208.us.archive.org/8/items/mbid-ba42bd34-2a50-4449-908f-c12c1a82513f/mbid-ba42bd34-2a50-4449-908f-c12c1a82513f-4017901734_thumb500.jpg", "thumbnail_uri": "https://ia903208.us.archive.org/8/items/mbid-ba42bd34-2a50-4449-908f-c12c1a82513f/mbid-ba42bd34-2a50-4449-908f-c12c1a82513f-4017901734_thumb250.jpg", "song": "Double Dutch Bus", "track_id": "3440538d-3ce8-3880-9abe-690b45fcddc5", "recording_id": "7e0e168b-4429-4d65-b661-0dec094ec460", "artist": "Frankie Smith", "artist_ids": [ "1c0ee25e-da2a-436f-991e-67573711f236" ], "album": "Double Dutch Bus", "release_id": "ba42bd34-2a50-4449-908f-c12c1a82513f", "release_group_id": "5716ae91-5a28-3f07-b167-7c50dfe0e107", "labels": [ "Metronome" ], "label_ids": [ "b20a6195-5d40-4717-9882-02f7e9a53f16" ], "release_date": "1981-01-01", "rotation_status": "Library", "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "Like \"Rapper's Delight\" and many other rap songs that were gaining traction in the early 80's, the song tells a clever and self-deprecating story: Frankie Smith misses his bus and has to walk 15 blocks to get to work. But \"Double Dutch Bus\" has a secret weapon: a hook filled with a kind of pig Latin variation sung by Smith and a group of kids along the lines of:\nMizzo izzay wizzat nizzo yizzou izzay\n\nThis was a precursor to Jay-Z's improvised language in his 2001 hit \"Izzo (H.O.V.A.),\" where he spells out HOVA in izzle-speak: H to the Izz-o, V to the Izz-A\n\nSnoop Dogg, an old-school aficionado, put his own spin on it, using it as part of his regular speech. Fo shizzle.", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }