{"id":3596115,"uri":"https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3596115/?format=json","airdate":"2025-12-26T04:19:11-08:00","show":65475,"show_uri":"https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65475/?format=json","image_uri":"","thumbnail_uri":"","song":"Here Comes the Hotstepper (LP version)","track_id":null,"recording_id":"5947502d-af66-42d0-90c8-6d04547aa8bb","artist":"Ini Kamoze","artist_ids":["ce29fa89-8aed-4f7b-8b3e-a34d0c9ed0c6"],"album":"Here Comes the Hotstepper","release_id":null,"release_group_id":"a6bf1121-40a2-4b5c-9e8e-8114179723b2","labels":["Columbia"],"label_ids":["011d1192-6f65-45bd-85c4-0400dd45693e"],"release_date":"1994-01-01","rotation_status":null,"is_local":false,"is_request":false,"is_live":false,"comment":"The song's instrumental samples the drums and bass from \"Heartbeat\" by Taana Gardner and guitar notes from \"Hung Up on My Baby\" by Isaac Hayes. The Intro/Break “na na na\"s are from \"Land of 1000 Dances,\" most famously recorded by Wilson Pickett in 1966.\n--\n\"Kamoze is the son of a tough police superintendent dubbed \"The Scorpion\", and a factory worker mother. He was born in a seaside shack in Oracabessa, Jamaica. His mother, in a fit of anger over not hearing from his father, placed the infant in a cardboard box and left him at the gate of another female acquaintance (of his dad) in a Kingston ghetto called Jones Town. The woman, Miss Ette, still claims him as her little son....\"  Read an entertaining biography of this reggae artist: https://www.reggaeville.com/artist-details/ini-kamoze/about/","location":1,"location_name":"Default","play_type":"trackplay"}