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GET /v2/plays/3659825/?format=api
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{
    "id": 3659825,
    "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3659825/?format=api",
    "airdate": "2026-05-26T13:38:08-07:00",
    "show": 66821,
    "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/66821/?format=api",
    "image_uri": "https://dn721504.ca.archive.org/0/items/mbid-c0b02aaa-3486-4cc0-94c3-6b268a3944ab/mbid-c0b02aaa-3486-4cc0-94c3-6b268a3944ab-44392074406_thumb500.jpg",
    "thumbnail_uri": "https://dn721504.ca.archive.org/0/items/mbid-c0b02aaa-3486-4cc0-94c3-6b268a3944ab/mbid-c0b02aaa-3486-4cc0-94c3-6b268a3944ab-44392074406_thumb250.jpg",
    "song": "Slot Machines",
    "track_id": "58730c0c-6cf8-48d6-bb0e-a6efa1000094",
    "recording_id": "4a413b28-0cb5-4316-98c8-01d0a2113d9f",
    "artist": "Yaya Bey feat. Deem Spencer",
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    ],
    "album": "FIdelity",
    "release_id": "c0b02aaa-3486-4cc0-94c3-6b268a3944ab",
    "release_group_id": "a43bf2ce-2a3a-477b-b263-83edd2750f91",
    "labels": [
        "drink sum wtr"
    ],
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    ],
    "release_date": "2026-04-17",
    "rotation_status": "Medium",
    "is_local": false,
    "is_request": false,
    "is_live": false,
    "comment": "Yaya Bey will be in Seattle on Sep\n19th at The Crocodile!\nTickets:\nhttps://www.ticketweb.com/event/bilal-yaya-bey-the-crocodile-tickets/14920393?utm_medium=affiliate&utm_source=5128861-Google%20Events&source=ea\n--\nWritten after a breaking point on the road, Fidelity considers what it means to be a Black artist when pain is translated into spectacle, commodity, or expectation; when grief is too often reduced to a sob story for onlookers to consume. \n\nFidelity acts as a bold declaration; in this new act, Bey moves past surface-level labels to examine what she calls the “Three Deaths”: the personal, the communal, and the loss of innocence.\n\nFrom this reckoning, Bey turns inward, choosing faithfulness over accessibility, and self-truth over survival performance.",
    "location": 1,
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}