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It is also the band's first album since 1976 to feature frontman and co-founder Emmanuel \"Jagari\" Chanda. ✅\n--\nCheck out WITCH's Live on KEXP Session: https://youtu.be/VusgfNRiSjE?si=QuwT7RDmW-Yu0kyF", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3663707, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3663707/?format=api", "airdate": "2026-06-04T15:57:40-07:00", "show": 66901, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/66901/?format=api", "image_uri": "https://coverartarchive.org/release/172557e0-32cc-423d-9742-9e36639c6503/44155633127-500.jpg", "thumbnail_uri": "https://coverartarchive.org/release/172557e0-32cc-423d-9742-9e36639c6503/44155633127-250.jpg", "song": "Misdemeanor", "track_id": null, "recording_id": "ba553d48-7b04-49a6-9828-e5c7ae7e665d", "artist": "Ahmad Jamal", "artist_ids": [ "cf816800-4e0e-4d80-9cca-50a725e93787" ], "album": "Jamalca", "release_id": null, "release_group_id": "c5633240-e0db-30c7-ad3d-354acffb93b8", "labels": [ "20th Century Records" ], "label_ids": [ "ed0d5aff-e23f-4239-950f-bae0bc201e6c" ], "release_date": "1974-08-01", "rotation_status": null, "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "This is jazz pianist Ahmad Jamal's rendition of Foster Sylvers' \"Misdemeanor.\"", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3663706, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3663706/?format=api", "airdate": "2026-06-04T15:54:26-07:00", "show": 66901, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/66901/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "song": "Style", "track_id": null, "recording_id": "12760e83-d16e-48fe-8c33-fdc57c3d0163", "artist": "M‐Beat", "artist_ids": [ "bb7725b2-9ef5-4867-98fb-2a0366eb7a81" ], "album": "Golden Collections, Vol. II", "release_id": null, "release_group_id": "dfd6bbdf-ba7a-43e5-ad6e-86740009e36f", "labels": [ "Renk Records" ], "label_ids": [ "1244f9cc-af10-4107-862c-a7c89378af35" ], "release_date": "1995-01-01", "rotation_status": null, "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "Still another song that samples Foster Sylvers' classic \"Misdemeanor.\"\n--\nHere's an eleven-minute introduction to the bass and drum samples of M-Beat: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0YAc83-H894", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3663705, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3663705/?format=api", "airdate": "2026-06-04T15:51:17-07:00", "show": 66901, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/66901/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "song": "Drop 10", "track_id": null, "recording_id": "803fcdbb-7836-4568-832b-ba4ab9ba7f05", "artist": "Kenny Beats", "artist_ids": [ "22ba00db-f132-4f3c-ab06-4ddaa4cc066b" ], "album": "LOUIE", "release_id": null, "release_group_id": "d00b8ff3-b524-4539-a314-05dc51855502", "labels": [ "XL Recordings" ], "label_ids": [ "14221f01-8939-4ea0-b8f1-b5a21beae80a" ], "release_date": "2022-08-31", "rotation_status": null, "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "Foster Sylvers' vocals from \"Misdemeanor\" were sampled here. Leon Sylvers III shares songwriting credit with Kenny Beats.", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3663704, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3663704/?format=api", "airdate": "2026-06-04T15:49:12-07:00", "show": 66901, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/66901/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "song": "That’s Gangsta", "track_id": null, "recording_id": "7a899ad8-affd-483e-b098-fb58d2d86c20", "artist": "Shyne", "artist_ids": [ "b85791db-53bf-4847-ae63-75f279afd36e" ], "album": "Shyne", "release_id": null, "release_group_id": "467f6f02-9041-34d9-ad28-4980eee8b821", "labels": [ "Bad Boy Records" ], "label_ids": [ "29d43312-a8ed-4d7b-9f4e-f5650318aebb" ], "release_date": "2000-09-26", "rotation_status": null, "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "\"That's Gangsta\" contains samples of \"Misdemeanor\" by Foster Sylvers and \"I Ain't No Joke\" by Eric B. & Rakim.\n--\nThe song was produced by fellow Bad Boy labelmates P. Diddy and Mario Winans", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3663703, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3663703/?format=api", "airdate": "2026-06-04T15:45:14-07:00", "show": 66901, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/66901/?format=api", "image_uri": "https://coverartarchive.org/release/e669bdc6-f37c-4055-a04f-b6ef91bc60ec/26376869696-500.jpg", "thumbnail_uri": "https://coverartarchive.org/release/e669bdc6-f37c-4055-a04f-b6ef91bc60ec/26376869696-250.jpg", "song": "Out of Sight", "track_id": null, "recording_id": "4fb4c249-ffc3-4ad5-aa23-d8fd01f89c47", "artist": "Run the Jewels feat. 2 Chainz", "artist_ids": [ "a80c5dc5-b12e-4667-9f5a-b568961f3839", "dff0d392-4cd5-4052-9fbb-f485df3891e5" ], "album": "RTJ4", "release_id": null, "release_group_id": "46dc2b09-a6b1-4271-bf1d-01f3b3b95c23", "labels": [ "BMG" ], "label_ids": [ "82ef9b02-7b42-49fe-a6bc-0d8ba816d72f" ], "release_date": "2020-06-02", "rotation_status": null, "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "On the 2 Chainz-assisted song “Out of Sight,” the duo pays homage to a classic ‘80s track. RTJ samples Foster Sylvers’ 1973 song “Misdemeanor. Here's a discussion of several times that song has been sampled (it's been sampled more than 50 times.): https://genius.com/a/run-the-jewels-out-of-sight-shares-a-sample-with-the-d-o-c-s-it-s-funky-enough\n--\nWatch Run the Jewels performing on KEXP for an in-studio session in 2017: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C8zQHaIPzVw", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3663702, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3663702/?format=api", "airdate": "2026-06-04T15:37:25-07:00", "show": 66901, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/66901/?format=api", "image_uri": "https://coverartarchive.org/release/17cc275a-e1c1-4eb8-8367-600193aacbc0/34721437966-500.jpg", "thumbnail_uri": "https://coverartarchive.org/release/17cc275a-e1c1-4eb8-8367-600193aacbc0/34721437966-250.jpg", "song": "It’s Funky Enough", "track_id": null, "recording_id": "1a956c6e-9764-4eca-8833-dc28ab59a3a7", "artist": "The D.O.C.", "artist_ids": [ "535f74d5-8328-40ff-9cea-568ef916b3c8" ], "album": "No One Can Do It Better", "release_id": null, "release_group_id": "65b0321c-4852-3e7f-a622-706d600ab485", "labels": [ "Ruthless Records" ], "label_ids": [ "52fa5738-5b7c-4748-b239-3b867504c46a" ], "release_date": "1989-07-11", "rotation_status": null, "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "A native of Dallas, Texas, the artist born Tracy Curry linked with Dr. Dre in the late 1980s to make history. https://bit.ly/3gTkZ3O \n---\nA Dr. Dre production, \"It's Funky Enough\" interpolated multiple elements of Foster Sylvers' \"Misdemeanor.\" \n\nIt also sampled \"It's a New Day So Let a Man Come in and Do the Popcorn\" by James Brown, \"Funky President (People It's Bad)\" by James Brown, \"Stone to the Bone\" by James Brown, \"Brother Hominy Grit\" by Lightnin' Rod, \"Ain't We Funkin' Now\" by The Brothers Johnson and \"8 Ball\" by N.W.A.", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3663701, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3663701/?format=api", "airdate": "2026-06-04T15:36:34-07:00", "show": 66901, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/66901/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "song": "Misdemeanor (from TikTok)", "track_id": null, "recording_id": null, "artist": "Lady Lane", "artist_ids": [], "album": null, "release_id": null, "release_group_id": null, "labels": [], "label_ids": [], "release_date": null, "rotation_status": null, "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "A cover of the Foster Sylvers classic.", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3663700, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3663700/?format=api", "airdate": "2026-06-04T15:35:05-07:00", "show": 66901, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/66901/?format=api", "image_uri": "https://coverartarchive.org/release/5d40850d-a155-437c-a93a-774d001ffc54/6253620191-500.jpg", "thumbnail_uri": "https://coverartarchive.org/release/5d40850d-a155-437c-a93a-774d001ffc54/6253620191-250.jpg", "song": "Misdemeanor", "track_id": null, "recording_id": "203ba854-c1dd-4941-8b77-1ae933aaa2b7", "artist": "Foster Sylvers", "artist_ids": [ "b6e4be33-0689-4314-94f0-ec8d25eda9c9" ], "album": "Foster Sylvers", "release_id": null, "release_group_id": "68b40800-bd34-38a1-add6-f8434dc2d736", "labels": [ "Pride" ], "label_ids": [ "ef27f204-8974-4e0a-8645-82e948e82d4b" ], "release_date": "1973-01-01", "rotation_status": null, "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "This was the first single from the late Foster Sylvers' debut self-titled album in 1973. It was written by his big brother Leon. \n--\nHere's Foster live on \"Soul Train\" in 1973: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p74vA__iE2U", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" } ] }
