Play Public List
Information about plays
list: List of plays
retrieve: Information about a specific play by ID
GET /v2/plays/?format=api&offset=67540&ordering=-airdate
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A legacy that began with his now iconic debut, 1994's Illmatic, the Queens, New York native sparked a debate that pit his future albums against his alpha project. That same discussion especially holds true to Illmatic’s predecessor It Was Written, where Nas experimented with the Mafioso themes and strong, narrative plot lines that have become his signature.\"\n\nRead the full article here!\nhttps://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/hip-hop/7424139/nas-it-was-written-album-anniversary", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3584299, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3584299/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-11-28T23:11:05-08:00", "show": 65235, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65235/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "song": "Nickel Bags", "track_id": null, "recording_id": "9da17689-b557-464c-85ff-1a62006753ad", "artist": "Digable Planets", "artist_ids": [ "ff44f779-74ab-48f8-aac3-39ebe8f7c18e" ], "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": "Digable Planets shot a video to this song,\n\"Nickel Bags\" : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=akUp58m_w5s\n--\nAnd, yes, they sampled Curtis Mayfield's \"Give Me Your Love (Love Song).\"", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3584298, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3584298/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-11-28T23:07:19-08:00", "show": 65235, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65235/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "song": "Incarcerated Scarfaces", "track_id": null, "recording_id": "3f265b81-be99-4363-bbcc-c72fbf183784", "artist": "Raekwon", "artist_ids": [ "4e954b02-fae2-4bd7-9547-e055a6ac0527" ], "album": "Only Built 4 Cuban Linx…", "release_id": null, "release_group_id": "ab981b48-9a7b-34c4-b46a-f6266317ce7c", "labels": [], "label_ids": [], "release_date": "1995-08-01", "rotation_status": null, "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "Read Martin Douglas' article about this song for KEXP 50 this week about \"Incarcerated Scarfaces\" here: https://www.kexp.org/read/2022/9/21/50-years-of-music-1995-raekwon-incarcerated-scarfaces/", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3584297, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3584297/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-11-28T23:04:38-08:00", "show": 65235, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65235/?format=api", "image_uri": "https://coverartarchive.org/release/23df2316-7e0a-3fad-a7fd-9f63379e4120/1674549008-500.jpg", "thumbnail_uri": "https://coverartarchive.org/release/23df2316-7e0a-3fad-a7fd-9f63379e4120/1674549008-250.jpg", "song": "D. Original", "track_id": null, "recording_id": "186b3d89-746e-4822-9aeb-42313351fa96", "artist": "Jeru the Damaja", "artist_ids": [ "6593c2bc-9327-4adf-a8b2-b315e4f5c0bb" ], "album": "The Sun Rises in the East", "release_id": null, "release_group_id": "4c1feb97-bc6c-32f9-8adb-bd85105fdaa0", "labels": [], "label_ids": [], "release_date": "1994-05-24", "rotation_status": null, "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "Melody Maker named The Sun Rises in the East \"bloody essential\", calling it \"hypnotic and chilling as a blues party on Pluto\" and \"another step forward for hip hop.\"[9] NME said that \"Jeru is more original than most [rappers]\", while The Source remarked that \"the music both contrasts and complements his disjointed flow and deep poetical lyricism.\"", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3584296, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3584296/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-11-28T23:00:31-08:00", "show": 65235, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65235/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "comment": "", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "airbreak" }, { "id": 3584295, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3584295/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-11-28T22:57:54-08:00", "show": 65235, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65235/?format=api", "image_uri": "https://coverartarchive.org/release/6b647876-3eb2-362a-9bcc-d2443ba8db03/4781812766-500.jpg", "thumbnail_uri": "https://coverartarchive.org/release/6b647876-3eb2-362a-9bcc-d2443ba8db03/4781812766-250.jpg", "song": "Work", "track_id": null, "recording_id": "8b5aa95d-87bd-422e-b277-70859a943d22", "artist": "Gang Starr", "artist_ids": [ "9ef8042a-2528-4f5c-b7c1-5e72b1efe170" ], "album": "Moment of Truth", "release_id": null, "release_group_id": "248b3e39-8504-3253-97be-e6afdf6c22fa", "labels": [], "label_ids": [], "release_date": "1998-03-31", "rotation_status": null, "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "Moment of Truth is the fifth album by hip hop duo Gang Starr, released on March 31, 1998. It is widely regarded as Gang Starr's magnum opus, and one of the greatest hip hop albums of all time.", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3584294, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3584294/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-11-28T22:55:03-08:00", "show": 65235, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65235/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "song": "Livin’ Proof", "track_id": null, "recording_id": "51bff369-f62c-4eb6-b547-fd3b454bb668", "artist": "Group Home", "artist_ids": [ "2ef7dec5-941e-4d62-a97b-0f01c17fe703" ], "album": "Livin’ Proof", "release_id": null, "release_group_id": "b93d80b4-a2a5-31a7-960d-04a13ed7d381", "labels": [], "label_ids": [], "release_date": "1995-11-21", "rotation_status": null, "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "https://open.spotify.com/album/6yI94LA9fKDDz6TSav5pbP", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3584293, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3584293/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-11-28T22:52:23-08:00", "show": 65235, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65235/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "song": "Shadowboxin’", "track_id": null, "recording_id": "916a5c95-ff59-49be-b1a2-c13d55846c15", "artist": "Genius/GZA feat. Johnny Blaze A.K.A Method Man", "artist_ids": [ "550cb78b-4995-4873-baea-76ef265531f5", "94dbfe2e-ca48-4e08-a5a8-e1e74136c63d" ], "album": "Liquid Swords", "release_id": null, "release_group_id": "6075a004-e983-3a00-8a13-50af32f0e200", "labels": [], "label_ids": [], "release_date": "1995-11-07", "rotation_status": null, "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "This critic says that \"Shadowboxin'\" is \"the most perfect rap song ever written\": https://hiphopgoldenage.com/perfect-rap-song-written-shadowboxin/\n--\nThe vocals were sampled by Gang Starr in \"You Know My Steez.\"", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3584292, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3584292/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-11-28T22:47:56-08:00", "show": 65235, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65235/?format=api", "image_uri": "https://coverartarchive.org/release/8fc6ad98-b37b-48b2-af99-b8cc1efcde39/6491906051-500.jpg", "thumbnail_uri": "https://coverartarchive.org/release/8fc6ad98-b37b-48b2-af99-b8cc1efcde39/6491906051-250.jpg", "song": "Stakes Is High", "track_id": null, "recording_id": "bb4ec444-2c48-4e08-8d87-12cc890310b6", "artist": "De La Soul", "artist_ids": [ "a8ebde98-7e91-46c7-992c-90039ba42017" ], "album": "Stakes Is High", "release_id": null, "release_group_id": "2a6020bf-93bf-384f-8378-af380159261d", "labels": [], "label_ids": [], "release_date": "1996-06-28", "rotation_status": null, "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "The vocals in \"Stakes Is High\" were sampled for Deltron 3030's \"Positive Contact.\"\n\nJ Dilla co-produced this song from De La Soul. Here's an interview from 2016 with Posdnuos and Maseo about the making of one of their most beloved albums: 1996’s \"Stakes Is High.\": https://www.okayplayer.com/originals/de-la-soul-stakes-is-high.html", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3584291, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3584291/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-11-28T22:44:52-08:00", "show": 65235, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65235/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "comment": "", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "airbreak" }, { "id": 3584290, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3584290/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-11-28T22:42:54-08:00", "show": 65235, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65235/?format=api", "image_uri": "https://coverartarchive.org/release/d23c0e80-f001-416c-a94a-dea0a824c84c/41588091550-500.jpg", "thumbnail_uri": "https://coverartarchive.org/release/d23c0e80-f001-416c-a94a-dea0a824c84c/41588091550-250.jpg", "song": "Hits From the Bong", "track_id": null, "recording_id": "737e3e7c-f502-41f4-a1e2-ec52d11691f7", "artist": "Cypress Hill", "artist_ids": [ "51508c1f-8d07-4a00-9cf1-26c570fe7b78" ], "album": "Black Sunday", "release_id": null, "release_group_id": "fe860e74-7eb8-4bc3-8b8d-cbf621aed500", "labels": [], "label_ids": [], "release_date": "1993-07-20", "rotation_status": null, "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "\"Hits From the Bong\" contains samples of \"Son of a Preacher Man\" by Dusty Springfield, \"Get Out of My Life, Woman\" by Lee Dorsey and their own \"Stoned Is the Way of the Walk.\"", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3584289, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3584289/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-11-28T22:40:09-08:00", "show": 65235, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65235/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "song": "Bonita Applebum", "track_id": null, "recording_id": "89267c1f-e888-42f0-bf32-40f56c4c002c", "artist": "A Tribe Called Quest", "artist_ids": [ "9689aa5a-4471-4fb4-9721-07cecda0fa9f" ], "album": "People’s Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm", "release_id": null, "release_group_id": "02adb8a7-496c-3a9a-a324-662df73fdba5", "labels": [], "label_ids": [], "release_date": "1990-03-12", "rotation_status": null, "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "Sampled by P.M. Dawn for \"Set Adrift on Memory Bliss\", \"Bonita Applebum\" in turn sampled Cannonball Adderley's \"Soul Virgo\" and Rotary Connection's \"Memory Band.\"\n\nInitially, Q-Tip used a conventional rap delivery, but inspired after reading a Miles Davis interview about \"space\" (rests), he decided to adopt the technique by changing the beat and using a more conversational delivery. \n--\nWatch them perform \"Bonita Applebum\" live: https://youtu.be/jJ3Ffu-2cNY", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3584288, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3584288/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-11-28T22:36:30-08:00", "show": 65235, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65235/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "song": "Sittin' on Chrome", "track_id": null, "recording_id": "fffc28c4-18b7-47fe-9d94-15e4bf13237a", "artist": "Masta Ace Incorporated", "artist_ids": [ "1a576d57-4b7c-4f22-a51e-fe403c0103c4" ], "album": "Sittin’ on Chrome", "release_id": null, "release_group_id": "57f21f31-a40e-400f-9e2d-d8fed1f85e74", "labels": [], "label_ids": [], "release_date": "1995-01-01", "rotation_status": null, "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": null, "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3584286, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3584286/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-11-28T22:30:57-08:00", "show": 65235, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65235/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "comment": "", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "airbreak" }, { "id": 3584287, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3584287/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-11-28T22:27:16-08:00", "show": 65235, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65235/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "song": "Ready or Not", "track_id": null, "recording_id": "e1a34c8b-e2e6-4ef5-9fb4-3c104cd2633f", "artist": "Fugees", "artist_ids": [ "ea321799-9b1d-4e74-a074-a5facf597d82" ], "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": null, "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3584285, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3584285/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-11-28T22:24:32-08:00", "show": 65235, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65235/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "song": "Passin’ Me By", "track_id": null, "recording_id": "cadb7520-b30f-4072-9e01-04bbe8d2524a", "artist": "The Pharcyde", "artist_ids": [ "d7134426-a937-43bf-bc54-f10ad8102ed9" ], "album": "Bizarre Ride II the Pharcyde", "release_id": null, "release_group_id": "c799ef0c-f038-364b-972b-51f52d794781", "labels": [], "label_ids": [], "release_date": "1992-11-24", "rotation_status": null, "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "The Pharcyde in 1992 sampling Quincy Jones's 1973 version of the Lovin' Spoonful song \"Summer in the City.\"", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3584284, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3584284/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-11-28T22:22:16-08:00", "show": 65235, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65235/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "song": "Ambitionz az a Ridah", "track_id": null, "recording_id": "ffd277e5-bd7f-434b-ba95-4b278013e81a", "artist": "2Pac", "artist_ids": [ "382f1005-e9ab-4684-afd4-0bdae4ee37f2" ], "album": "All Eyez on Me", "release_id": null, "release_group_id": "e2621417-9236-36b4-9f9e-376c416dc4b0", "labels": [], "label_ids": [], "release_date": "1996-02-13", "rotation_status": null, "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "\"Ambitionz az a Ridah\" samples \"Pee-Wee's Dance\" by Joeski Love! \"All Eyez on Me\" was the last album released during 2Pac's lifetime and includes guest features from Dr. Dre, Snoop Dogg, Redman, Method Man, Nate Dogg, E-40, K-Ci & JoJo, the Outlawz, and more. https://www.kexp.org/donate/", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3584283, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3584283/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-11-28T22:19:39-08:00", "show": 65235, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65235/?format=api", "image_uri": "https://coverartarchive.org/release/240f52cd-9120-452d-98de-8df087e389e8/8733386476-500.jpg", "thumbnail_uri": "https://coverartarchive.org/release/240f52cd-9120-452d-98de-8df087e389e8/8733386476-250.jpg", "song": "Guess Who's Back", "track_id": null, "recording_id": "9d58ae00-2bc3-4001-8648-ad9c78a8f105", "artist": "Scarface feat. 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