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Many of the samples take the Ayers’ backdrop — a leisurely Ron Carter bassline, Whitaker’s electric piano taps and Ayers’ chiming vibraphone — to put a new spin on Ayers’ soulful decree that, “Our time is now.”: https://abrandbox.medium.com/we-all-live-in-brooklyn-baby-da33f4760b64", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3589799, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3589799/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-12-11T15:16:52-08:00", "show": 65348, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65348/?format=api", "image_uri": "https://coverartarchive.org/release/c53be6c2-1a17-4a4a-97e3-d40f61630236/22927827729-500.jpg", "thumbnail_uri": "https://coverartarchive.org/release/c53be6c2-1a17-4a4a-97e3-d40f61630236/22927827729-250.jpg", "song": "Know That", "track_id": null, "recording_id": null, "artist": "Yasiin Bey, Talib Kweli", "artist_ids": [], "album": "Black on Both Sides", "release_id": null, "release_group_id": "d6658b47-463a-390e-9417-99c818aea004", "labels": [ "Rawkus Records" ], "label_ids": [ "21a9343c-4a03-4768-8186-569dc03f850c" ], "release_date": "1999-10-12", "rotation_status": null, "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "\"Know That\" sampled Dionne Warwick's \"Anyone Who Had a Heart.\"\n--\nKweli said Bey made him better. “He makes me a better human being by being my brother and my friend. He’s inspirational to me on a level that's so far beyond hiphop that it's like, fuck hiphop. It's not even about hiphop with this guy. That's like my real family. You know what I'm saying? And he inspires me so much deeper than rap. He inspires me as a man and spiritually and with the way he views art. What he deems is important helps me navigate.”: https://toure.substack.com/p/talib-kweli-says-mos-def-makes-all", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3589798, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3589798/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-12-11T15:15:07-08:00", "show": 65348, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65348/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "song": "Anyone Who Had a Heart", "track_id": null, "recording_id": "9a3c13a3-cc2e-4860-956f-4826189a8fed", "artist": "Dionne Warwick", "artist_ids": [ "6784ee31-6d79-4a37-9e1f-01d6ef31940e" ], "album": "The Definitive Collection", "release_id": null, "release_group_id": "fcddc643-62b3-39e2-9df3-2f5405c86ec2", "labels": [ "Arista" ], "label_ids": [ "c62e3985-6370-446a-bfb8-f1f6122e9c33" ], "release_date": "1999-04-13", "rotation_status": null, "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "Burt Bacharach and Hal David wrote this classic for Dionne Warwick. \n--\nSee the great Dionne Warwick perform it live at The Rainbow Room in 1996 (Burt Bacharach is playing the piano.): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-geWdEWE1-8", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3589796, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3589796/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-12-11T15:11:42-08:00", "show": 65348, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65348/?format=api", "image_uri": "https://ia601906.us.archive.org/33/items/mbid-66df81d2-9787-3838-85fa-fa0de57990f3/mbid-66df81d2-9787-3838-85fa-fa0de57990f3-24580063144_thumb500.jpg", "thumbnail_uri": "https://ia801906.us.archive.org/33/items/mbid-66df81d2-9787-3838-85fa-fa0de57990f3/mbid-66df81d2-9787-3838-85fa-fa0de57990f3-24580063144_thumb250.jpg", "song": "Astronomy (8th Light)", "track_id": "e8680d18-f0aa-3f2d-b6ba-c267a90ff1de", "recording_id": "3bdba427-2558-4ae0-b4c3-ed412413284e", "artist": "Black Star", "artist_ids": [ "02708fd6-0fe6-4738-a27d-0561ace8b4c6" ], "album": "Mos Def & Talib Kweli Are Black Star", "release_id": "66df81d2-9787-3838-85fa-fa0de57990f3", "release_group_id": "aaa445c1-5f73-37c0-b53a-2444b279c538", "labels": [ "Rawkus Records" ], "label_ids": [ "21a9343c-4a03-4768-8186-569dc03f850c" ], "release_date": "2002-06-04", "rotation_status": null, "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "\"Black Star is an American Hip Hop duo, formed in 1997, from Brooklyn, New York. The duo is composed of artists Yasiin Bey and Talib Kweli.\n\nBlack Star arose from the underground Hip Hop movement of the late 1990s, which was in large part due to Rawkus Records, an independent record label stationed in New York City. They released one album, Mos Def & Talib Kweli Are Black Star on August 26, 1998. The record received critical acclaim, but only moderate commercial success. Black Star (and other members of the Native Tongues Posse) helped shape underground alternative rap, bringing it into the mainstream. : https://www.talibkweli.com/black-star/", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3589795, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3589795/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-12-11T15:09:59-08:00", "show": 65348, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65348/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "song": "Big Takeover", "track_id": null, "recording_id": "269047d9-7155-4a38-96a8-02c27e162f1b", "artist": "Bad Brains", "artist_ids": [ "e919b253-da5b-4aae-a444-6a368376a2d6" ], "album": "Live at CBGB OMFUG 1982: The Audio Recordings", "release_id": null, "release_group_id": "b7f41306-c1ae-3909-8726-bb0aa7b0c2f1", "labels": [ "Reggae Lounge" ], "label_ids": [ "79ca747a-a7df-4382-86bb-8442fd21c984" ], "release_date": "2006-10-31", "rotation_status": null, "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "There's lots of stomping in this live performance at CBGB in 1982: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5NAPYIMMbWQ", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3589794, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3589794/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-12-11T15:04:44-08:00", "show": 65348, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65348/?format=api", "image_uri": "https://ia800703.us.archive.org/28/items/mbid-c53be6c2-1a17-4a4a-97e3-d40f61630236/mbid-c53be6c2-1a17-4a4a-97e3-d40f61630236-22927827729_thumb500.jpg", "thumbnail_uri": "https://ia800703.us.archive.org/28/items/mbid-c53be6c2-1a17-4a4a-97e3-d40f61630236/mbid-c53be6c2-1a17-4a4a-97e3-d40f61630236-22927827729_thumb250.jpg", "song": "Rock n Roll", "track_id": "7a0a9cd6-97b7-4e1c-ac05-386417006487", "recording_id": "7efeb861-b06c-4009-869b-06450a8bd4aa", "artist": "Mos Def", "artist_ids": [ "9f4551c6-1324-4ac5-b3fe-a5c5cfacd54d" ], "album": "Black On Both Sides", "release_id": "c53be6c2-1a17-4a4a-97e3-d40f61630236", "release_group_id": "d6658b47-463a-390e-9417-99c818aea004", "labels": [ "Rawkus Records" ], "label_ids": [ "21a9343c-4a03-4768-8186-569dc03f850c" ], "release_date": "1999-01-01", "rotation_status": null, "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "\"Elvis Presley ain't got no soul...\"\n--\nThis song samples \"The March of the Winkies\" from \"The Wizard of Oz.\" \"Rock 'N' Roll\" also contains samples of \"Memphis at Sunrise\" by Bar-Kays, \"Inner City Blues (Make Me Wanna Holler)\" by Marvin Gaye, \"The Realest\" by Mobb Deep feat. Kool G Rap, and \"Allustrious\" by Mobb Deep.", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3589793, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3589793/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-12-11T15:01:56-08:00", "show": 65348, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65348/?format=api", "image_uri": "https://ia600906.us.archive.org/33/items/mbid-c81566d8-fddf-41a2-9e13-f48a2c6241fa/mbid-c81566d8-fddf-41a2-9e13-f48a2c6241fa-31865922029_thumb500.jpg", "thumbnail_uri": "https://ia800906.us.archive.org/33/items/mbid-c81566d8-fddf-41a2-9e13-f48a2c6241fa/mbid-c81566d8-fddf-41a2-9e13-f48a2c6241fa-31865922029_thumb250.jpg", "song": "Hound Dog", "track_id": "85b28968-101d-4281-b2c5-ddee82b0b84d", "recording_id": "c8580aa1-b63b-4c0b-aa4c-bc4e40eb12e6", "artist": "Big Mama Thornton", "artist_ids": [ "2993f855-403f-4c6a-bea9-088cd5d354dc" ], "album": "A Brief History Of The Blues", "release_id": "c81566d8-fddf-41a2-9e13-f48a2c6241fa", "release_group_id": "c59ed80f-11b3-41bb-a6f3-ffff5e7295d1", "labels": [ "Universal Records" ], "label_ids": [ "590538e9-b183-4163-ab5a-171fb021ed12" ], "release_date": "2008-01-01", "rotation_status": null, "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "Happy Birthday to Big Mama Thornton, born on this date in 1926. She died in 1984 at age of 58. Her 1953 version of \"Hound Dog,\" written by Lieber & Stoller, preceded Elvis Presley's 1956 hit. Did you know that Janis Joplin covered her version of \"\nBall and Chain\" when she sang with Big Brother & The Holding Company?", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3589792, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3589792/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-12-11T14:58:45-08:00", "show": 65348, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65348/?format=api", "image_uri": "https://coverartarchive.org/release/c53be6c2-1a17-4a4a-97e3-d40f61630236/22927827729-500.jpg", "thumbnail_uri": "https://coverartarchive.org/release/c53be6c2-1a17-4a4a-97e3-d40f61630236/22927827729-250.jpg", "song": "New World Water", "track_id": null, "recording_id": "2eca4241-92eb-4ec3-adac-cf1bb1ddbfd2", "artist": "Yasiin Bey", "artist_ids": [], "album": "Black on Both Sides", "release_id": null, "release_group_id": "d6658b47-463a-390e-9417-99c818aea004", "labels": [ "Rawkus Records" ], "label_ids": [ "21a9343c-4a03-4768-8186-569dc03f850c" ], "release_date": "1999-10-12", "rotation_status": null, "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "Water has provided hip hop with a variety of central metaphors by which the genre has enriched its poetic terminology of the flow, denoted spiritual purity, or discussed political and police corruption. Over the last two decades, water-related environmental concerns and catastrophes have prompted hip hop artists to develop a more literal approach. This article showcases how selected songs of black conscious and indigenous rap—Yasiin Bey’s “New World Water” (1999), Common’s “Trouble in the Water” (2014), Taboo’s “Stand Up / Stand N Rock” (2016), and Supaman’s “Miracle” (2018)—develop hydrocentric perspectives in order to participate in the negotiation of the cultural and material meanings of water. Go here to learn more about this article: https://ecozona.eu/article/view/4505\n--\nSampling Dick Schory's \"Josephina De Granada,\" this track was produced by Psycho Les of The Beatnuts.", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3589791, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3589791/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-12-11T14:56:39-08:00", "show": 65348, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65348/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "song": "Josephina De Granada", "track_id": null, "recording_id": "a0cb9c71-bc64-4e66-aa8c-129af9d8812e", "artist": "Dick Schory, Percussive Art Ensemble", "artist_ids": [], "album": "Re-Percussion", "release_id": null, "release_group_id": "638cce2a-ef4b-3516-b4bd-9186f42b8e24", "labels": [], "label_ids": [], "release_date": "1957-01-01", "rotation_status": null, "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "Sampled in Yasiin Bey's \"New World Water.\"", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3589790, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3589790/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-12-11T14:53:40-08:00", "show": 65348, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65348/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "song": "The Heart Part 1", "track_id": null, "recording_id": "23aa9ab1-24c5-4998-89b3-6cc6611c357b", "artist": "Kendrick Lamar", "artist_ids": [ "381086ea-f511-4aba-bdf9-71c753dc5077" ], "album": "The Heart Part 1", "release_id": null, "release_group_id": "9b17bca1-9ef4-41c2-aaab-300e7d000db6", "labels": [ "Top Dawg Entertainment" ], "label_ids": [ "56d2501f-12b7-4cfd-b8f8-e95189ea27f5" ], "release_date": "2010-04-14", "rotation_status": null, "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "In 2010, Kendrick Lamar directly sampled many elements of Yasiin Bey's 1999 \"Umi Says.\"\n--\nHere's the video for \"The Heart Part 1\": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FjSfelCds6g", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3589789, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3589789/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-12-11T14:44:08-08:00", "show": 65348, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65348/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "song": "Umi Says (Trizzy Says Bootleg)", "track_id": null, "recording_id": null, "artist": "Yasiin Bey", "artist_ids": [], "album": "Umi Says (Trizzy Says Bootleg)", "release_id": null, "release_group_id": null, "labels": [], "label_ids": [], "release_date": "2022-01-01", "rotation_status": null, "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "This is DJ A-Trak's remix of Yasiin Bey's classic \"Umi Says.\": https://soundazed.com/a-trak-debuts-trizzy-says-rework-of-mos-def-classic/", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3589788, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3589788/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-12-11T14:37:51-08:00", "show": 65348, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65348/?format=api", "image_uri": "https://coverartarchive.org/release/c53be6c2-1a17-4a4a-97e3-d40f61630236/22927827729-500.jpg", "thumbnail_uri": "https://coverartarchive.org/release/c53be6c2-1a17-4a4a-97e3-d40f61630236/22927827729-250.jpg", "song": "Umi Says", "track_id": null, "recording_id": "e3c22e4f-3f5f-4a38-aae2-e7d289292122", "artist": "Yasiin Bey", "artist_ids": [], "album": "Black on Both Sides", "release_id": null, "release_group_id": "d6658b47-463a-390e-9417-99c818aea004", "labels": [ "Rawkus Records" ], "label_ids": [ "21a9343c-4a03-4768-8186-569dc03f850c" ], "release_date": "1999-10-12", "rotation_status": null, "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "\"I want black people to be free, to be free, to be free\nAll my people to be free, to be free, to be free\nAll black people to be free, to be free, to be free\nAll black people to be free\nThat's all that matters to me...\"\n\n\n\"Umi\" means \"Mother\" in Arabic. Written by Mos Def and David Kennedy (and co-produced by both), the track features will.i.am on the Fender Rhodes and Wedon Irvine on the Hammond.\n--\nThe instrumental was also used on Kendrick Lamar’s \"The Heart Pt. 1.\"", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3589787, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3589787/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-12-11T14:32:33-08:00", "show": 65348, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65348/?format=api", "image_uri": "https://coverartarchive.org/release/c53be6c2-1a17-4a4a-97e3-d40f61630236/22927827729-500.jpg", "thumbnail_uri": "https://coverartarchive.org/release/c53be6c2-1a17-4a4a-97e3-d40f61630236/22927827729-250.jpg", "song": "Got", "track_id": null, "recording_id": "1a6a01b9-a746-462c-859b-c5585006d81c", "artist": "Yasiin Bey", "artist_ids": [], "album": "Black on Both Sides", "release_id": null, "release_group_id": "d6658b47-463a-390e-9417-99c818aea004", "labels": [ "Rawkus Records" ], "label_ids": [ "21a9343c-4a03-4768-8186-569dc03f850c" ], "release_date": "1999-10-12", "rotation_status": null, "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "\"Don't g-g-g-g-g-get me (oh no, no, no)...\"\n--\nSee Yasiin Bey perform \"Got\" live in 2012: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cfuTKoqCpvs", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3589786, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3589786/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-12-11T14:28:35-08:00", "show": 65348, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65348/?format=api", "image_uri": "https://coverartarchive.org/release/20b5b157-f0c9-45e0-a13f-55825f8c2b85/4450589179-500.jpg", "thumbnail_uri": "https://coverartarchive.org/release/20b5b157-f0c9-45e0-a13f-55825f8c2b85/4450589179-250.jpg", "song": "Say It Loud - I'm Black And I'm Proud (Pt. 1&2)", "track_id": null, "recording_id": "60c80cf4-6268-4af7-a746-b853b72e9164", "artist": "James Brown", "artist_ids": [ "20ff3303-4fe2-4a47-a1b6-291e26aa3438" ], "album": "Say It Loud: I’m Black and I’m Proud", "release_id": null, "release_group_id": "2d174033-5690-3062-9568-afea507db4e2", "labels": [ "Polydor" ], "label_ids": [ "ce24ab18-1bd6-4293-a486-546d13d6a5e2" ], "release_date": "1969-03-01", "rotation_status": null, "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "Do you know that this song has been sampled nearly 300 times?\n--\nDid you know that the backing vocals were by a group of young children from the Watts and Compton neighborhood of Los Angeles? Learn about this history of this empowering song: that the backing vocal were by a group of young children from the Watts and Compton neighbourhood of Los Angeles.", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3589785, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3589785/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-12-11T14:24:43-08:00", "show": 65348, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65348/?format=api", "image_uri": "https://coverartarchive.org/release/c53be6c2-1a17-4a4a-97e3-d40f61630236/22927827729-500.jpg", "thumbnail_uri": "https://coverartarchive.org/release/c53be6c2-1a17-4a4a-97e3-d40f61630236/22927827729-250.jpg", "song": "Do It Now", "track_id": null, "recording_id": "46f16acc-0844-46ce-ae7a-20d7559c0f91", "artist": "Yasiin Bey, Busta Rhymes", "artist_ids": [], "album": "Black on Both Sides", "release_id": null, "release_group_id": "d6658b47-463a-390e-9417-99c818aea004", "labels": [ "Rawkus Records" ], "label_ids": [ "21a9343c-4a03-4768-8186-569dc03f850c" ], "release_date": "1999-10-12", "rotation_status": null, "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "\"Do It Now\" samples \"Marcus Garvey\" by Burning Spear and also vocals from \"Sound of Da Police\" by KRS-One.\n--\nThe song was produce by Mr. Khaliyl (Acklins Dillon).", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3589784, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3589784/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-12-11T14:21:10-08:00", "show": 65348, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65348/?format=api", "image_uri": "https://coverartarchive.org/release/a8fb30e4-3b0d-4eca-a742-a7415141c35d/11940127494-500.jpg", "thumbnail_uri": "https://coverartarchive.org/release/a8fb30e4-3b0d-4eca-a742-a7415141c35d/11940127494-250.jpg", "song": "Marcus Garvey", "track_id": null, "recording_id": "46334bf8-5136-4af2-a567-f7308379d952", "artist": "Burning Spear", "artist_ids": [ "16dad944-c492-43dd-88ed-e0b7ac520c40" ], "album": "Marcus Garvey", "release_id": null, "release_group_id": "2b649670-7d2d-3287-9b40-5b88fb4e1f35", "labels": [ "Island" ], "label_ids": [ "dfd92cd3-4888-46d2-b968-328b1feb2642" ], "release_date": "1975-01-01", "rotation_status": null, "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "This song was sampled by Yasiin Bey for \"Do It Now,\" featuring Busta Rhymes.\n--\nSome reviewers say that Winston Rodney's (Burning Spear) third album is the greatest reggae album ever made.: https://www.udiscovermusic.com/stories/marcus-garvey-burning-spear/", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3589783, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3589783/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-12-11T14:14:18-08:00", "show": 65348, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65348/?format=api", "image_uri": "https://coverartarchive.org/release/32028dd1-0188-4442-af7e-2d945e100c49/14385513654-500.jpg", "thumbnail_uri": "https://coverartarchive.org/release/32028dd1-0188-4442-af7e-2d945e100c49/14385513654-250.jpg", "song": "What I Am", "track_id": null, "recording_id": "39b02539-2bce-4aa5-b232-307c5cb3dee6", "artist": "Edie Brickell & New Bohemians", "artist_ids": [ "df87d5be-c4b5-48e4-97b2-6440b77ca4fb" ], "album": "What I Am", "release_id": null, "release_group_id": "84ef1460-280b-3fbc-abe1-0b7225505290", "labels": [ "Geffen Records" ], "label_ids": [ "0fadc2ce-f7de-4e27-bbe6-612b317e716b" ], "release_date": "1988-11-01", "rotation_status": null, "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "Triple OG!!!\n--\nEdie Brickell was not an original member of the New Bohemians, which started life as a ska band in Dallas, Texas with Brad Houser on bass, Eric Presswood on guitar, and Brandon Aly on drums. They all met at Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts - Edie Brickell also attended there, but she didn't hook up with them until much later. In 1985, Brickell, then an art student at Southern Methodist University, saw them perform at an after-hours club, and after working up her courage with some help from a persistent friend and some shots of Jack Daniel's, came on stage to sing with them. Not long after, they made her their lead singer.\n--\nBrickell wrote this song with Kenny Withrow, a guitarist in the group. He plays the wonderful wah wah guitar here.", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3589782, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3589782/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-12-11T14:10:20-08:00", "show": 65348, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65348/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "song": "Slow Down (radio version)", "track_id": "49a381eb-8452-4dec-875f-60c9efdbe8a8", "recording_id": "c7194f67-4015-4c95-aa41-0d6aef21b1ae", "artist": "Brand Nubian", "artist_ids": [ "37da13d4-8bbc-41bb-9957-4d94de3d311e" ], "album": "Beats & Rhymes: Hip-Hop of the 90's - Part II", "release_id": "3167c279-5ecd-4be5-8575-5907fee3af19", "release_group_id": "7089e9e0-0587-4154-9998-0adbe3dd5d9e", "labels": [ "Rhino Entertainment Company" ], "label_ids": [ "6c87abe4-7be3-49a9-8aa7-83cb98edbba1" ], "release_date": "1997-10-28", "rotation_status": null, "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "Did you hear that sample of Edie Brickell & New Bohemians's \"What I Am\"? The song, produced by Brand Nubian and Grand Puba, also sampled \"Never Had a Dream\" by Ohio Players, \"Kool It (Here Comes the Fuzz)\" by Kool & the Gang and \"Rock Me Tonight (For Old Times Sake)\" by Freddie Jackson.", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3589781, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3589781/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-12-11T14:06:19-08:00", "show": 65348, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65348/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "song": "Speed Law", "track_id": null, "recording_id": "7b5104be-a222-4705-b70d-37c908f74099", "artist": "Yasiin Bey", "artist_ids": [], "album": "Black on Both Sides", "release_id": null, "release_group_id": "d6658b47-463a-390e-9417-99c818aea004", "labels": [ "Rawkus Records" ], "label_ids": [ "21a9343c-4a03-4768-8186-569dc03f850c" ], "release_date": "1999-10-12", "rotation_status": null, "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "\"Speed Law\" contains samples of \"Promise Her Anything but Give Her Arpeggio\" by Big Brother & the Holding Company, \"Ms. Fat Booty\" by Mos Def, \"And That's Saying a Lot\" by Christine Perfect, \"Get It Together\" by Beastie Boys feat. Q-Tip and \"Slow Down\" by Brand Nubian.\n--\nWatch a live performance of this song in Atlanta in 2019: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aCwyKWf7cYk", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3589780, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3589780/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-12-11T14:04:26-08:00", "show": 65348, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65348/?format=api", "image_uri": "https://coverartarchive.org/release/e8a6194a-2a00-4b54-9520-a8ce63c3c30d/22680697469-500.jpg", "thumbnail_uri": "https://coverartarchive.org/release/e8a6194a-2a00-4b54-9520-a8ce63c3c30d/22680697469-250.jpg", "song": "Promise Here Anything but Give Her Arpeggio", "track_id": null, "recording_id": "197c07f1-de5b-4e44-9d3f-721f5d68c236", "artist": "Big Brother & the Holding Company", "artist_ids": [ "3cf5a3be-25ef-4408-98fe-e66fee536be1" ], "album": "How Hard It Is", "release_id": null, "release_group_id": "9a0fe6f3-3531-3d82-bca1-bed8e117761b", "labels": [ "COE Records" ], "label_ids": [ "ea915fa5-ed24-4910-a194-6ec2e371004d" ], "release_date": "1970-01-01", "rotation_status": null, "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "Big Brother & The Holding Company were pioneers of the San Francisco sound of the 60s. The band launched the career of Janis Joplin.: https://www.allmusic.com/artist/big-brother-the-holding-company-mn0000758943", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" } ] }
