Play Public Instance
Information about plays
list: List of plays
retrieve: Information about a specific play by ID
GET /v2/plays/3606399/?format=api
{ "id": 3606399, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3606399/?format=api", "airdate": "2026-01-19T14:04:59-08:00", "show": 65700, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65700/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "song": "I'm a African", "track_id": null, "recording_id": "7da7aa6a-8e3a-4f9a-a481-93cd37360dce", "artist": "dead prez", "artist_ids": [ "3b02795b-bd2c-4aac-8f6c-e581514cc2d8" ], "album": "Let’s Get Free", "release_id": null, "release_group_id": "c46a8433-c8d7-3d20-bb7c-df48ef2eeaf9", "labels": [ "Loud Records" ], "label_ids": [ "32f6ca53-2be0-4dcd-8c08-e46eb6a018aa" ], "release_date": "1999-11-30", "rotation_status": null, "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "This powerful ode to Pan-Africanism is the first full song on the group’s debut album \"Let’s Get Free.\"\n--\n\"No, I wasn't born in Ghana, but Africa is my momma\nAnd I did not end up here from bad karma\nOr for b-ball, selling mad crack, or rapping\nPeter Tosh tried to tell us what happened\nHe was saying if you black, then you African\nSo they had to kill him\nAnd make him a villain ‘cause he was teaching the children\nI feel him, then was trying to drop us a real gem\nThat's why we bucking holes in the ceiling when we hearing...\" Here are the lyrics: https://genius.com/Dead-prez-im-a-african-lyrics", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }