Play Public Instance
Information about plays
list: List of plays
retrieve: Information about a specific play by ID
GET /v2/plays/3633193/?format=api
{ "id": 3633193, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3633193/?format=api", "airdate": "2026-03-24T17:46:16-07:00", "show": 66270, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/66270/?format=api", "image_uri": "https://dn710201.ca.archive.org/0/items/mbid-0be02706-e458-4ff4-8381-db694dd429df/mbid-0be02706-e458-4ff4-8381-db694dd429df-32103367060_thumb500.jpg", "thumbnail_uri": "https://dn710201.ca.archive.org/0/items/mbid-0be02706-e458-4ff4-8381-db694dd429df/mbid-0be02706-e458-4ff4-8381-db694dd429df-32103367060_thumb250.jpg", "song": "The Breaks", "track_id": "725fb3c5-ab3f-3d42-9256-1e78fffb81c0", "recording_id": "370cf730-fee5-44c8-a3da-4079cfedb03f", "artist": "Kurtis Blow", "artist_ids": [ "72eafbba-ff08-4257-9594-267d4a6fcdca" ], "album": "The Best of Kurtis Blow", "release_id": "0be02706-e458-4ff4-8381-db694dd429df", "release_group_id": "ea928658-d9d7-3891-8eb0-acaecc14fa19", "labels": [ "Mercury Records" ], "label_ids": [ "995428e7-81b6-41dd-bd38-5a7a0ece8ad6" ], "release_date": "1994-06-07", "rotation_status": null, "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "\"The Breaks\" samples \"Rapper's Delight.\"\n\nThis was the first rap song to sell over 500,000 copies, earning a certified Gold record. The album was also the first rap record released on a major label. Kurtis signed with Mercury Records early in 1980.\n\nKurtis told Songfacts: \"The concept was created as a tribute to all the breakers in and around the South Bronx and Harlem back in the early days of hip-hop. I wanted to do a tribute song with many breaks so that the breakers could get down and do their thing. When we danced during the breaks of a song, that was our time to go off - to do our best moves.\"\n\nhttps://bit.ly/3jX989f", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }