G.O.O.D. Fridays

G.O.O.D. Fridays is a weekly free music giveaway started by rapper Kanye West. The name originates from the name of his label, G.O.O.D. Music, and is also a reference to the Friday before Easter, which is known as Good Friday. Every Friday, beginning on August 20, 2010, Kanye planned on releasing a new song available for free download on his website. It is similar to Crooked I's program "Hip Hop Weekly" and inspired fellow rappers do the same thing - Lloyd Banks with "Blue Friday", Slim da Mobster with "Freestyle Fridays", Swizz Beatz with "Monster Mondays", RZA with "Wu Wednesdays", Timbaland with "Timbaland thursdays" and Snoop Dogg with "Puff, Puff Pass Tuesdays". All of the G.O.O.D. Friday tracks come with their own album art. West initially announced that the free music program releases songs from August 20, 2010 to Christmas 2010. At the beginning of November, Kanye announced that he was extending G.O.O.D. Fridays until the end of January. So far, 15 G.O.O.D. Friday tracks were released through the program and three tracks are on West's album My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy. West has not released a G.O.O.D. Friday track since the week of November 12 with the exception of "Christmas in Harlem". In a posting on his Twitter page, G.O.O.D. Music artist Big Sean said that the series was temporarily put on hold in order to keep full attention on My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy.