{"id":3631722,"uri":"https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3631722/?format=json","airdate":"2026-03-21T00:21:23-07:00","show":66236,"show_uri":"https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/66236/?format=json","image_uri":"https://coverartarchive.org/release/f00af81c-9249-49d0-b3f5-8b6725bd1900/28008351580-500.jpg","thumbnail_uri":"https://coverartarchive.org/release/f00af81c-9249-49d0-b3f5-8b6725bd1900/28008351580-250.jpg","song":"One Love","track_id":null,"recording_id":"21c6c597-7ac8-4d74-a33a-12fb48b5e2b6","artist":"Nas feat. Q‐Tip","artist_ids":["cfbc0924-0035-4d6c-8197-f024653af823","b3c94036-6166-41d2-91a2-dc3a0b5fa188"],"album":"Illmatic","release_id":null,"release_group_id":"28298e2c-4d70-3eed-a0f5-a3280c662b3d","labels":["Columbia"],"label_ids":["011d1192-6f65-45bd-85c4-0400dd45693e"],"release_date":"1994-04-15","rotation_status":null,"is_local":false,"is_request":false,"is_live":false,"comment":"Q-Tip handled keyboards, drums, and programming\n\n1994 debut from Nas. Sampling The Heath Brothers' \"Smilin' Billy Suite Pt 2\" and produced by Q-Tip, \"One Love\" is composed as a series of letters written by Nas to his incarcerated friends, describing events that have occurred prior to and after the receivers' imprisonment.  \n\n\"Q-Tip used to come and hang out with me in my projects from time to time. I remember him coming out there and hanging out, and I remember him letting me hang out at his session when he was working on Midnight Marauders. I thought he was just the most incredible, so to have him producing my album, for him to even do the chorus for me is a blessing. The song just came from life, it's a song about letters to prison inmates, friends of mine, shout-outs to childhood friends and their uncles and people who were like family to me. I was, again, too young to be going through all of that. That's what I think about when I hear that album. I was too young to be going through all of that.\"  https://bit.ly/3nTAKLC\n\nCheck out the powerful video for \"One Love\": \nhttps://youtu.be/hxce_qvhi5I","location":1,"location_name":"Default","play_type":"trackplay"}