Sucker Free is a music video program hosted by MTV VJ Cipha Sounds playing the top five hip-hop and R&B music videos that viewers vote for online, airing weekday mornings at 9:30 A.M. on MTV. It debuted in September 2000^[1] under the title Direct Effect, by which it was known until May 29, 2006^[2], being renamed Sucker Free on MTV as the similar program on MTV2 under a similar name and genre. In addition to the top five videos requested it occasionally plays Off The Radar videos which are popular music videos at that time, and it also plays "Hot One" videos which are videos that are below the top five. Sometimes well-known rappers are featured as guest stars usually to announce their new albums. A music video (also video clip, promo) is a short film or video meant to present a visual representation of a popular music song. ... Cipha Sounds is a DJ on Shade 45 Sirius satellite radio along with Angela Yee and DJ Wonder. ... MTV (Music Television) is an American cable television network based in New York City. ... This is a list of television-related events in 2000. ... MTV (Music Television) is an American cable television network based in New York City. ... A video jockey (usually abbreviated to VJ or sometimes veejay) can mean two things: One describes an announcer who introduces and plays videos on commercial music television such as MTV or VH1. ... Cipha Sounds is a DJ on Shade 45 Sirius satellite radio along with Angela Yee and DJ Wonder. ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged into Hip hop music. ... Rhythm and blues (or R & B) is a musical marketing term introduced in the United States in the late 1940s by Billboard magazine. ... A music video (also video clip, promo) is a short film or video meant to present a visual representation of a popular music song. ... MTV (Music Television) is an American cable television network based in New York City. ... May 29 is the 149th day of the year (150th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... For the Manfred Mann album, see 2006 (album). ... MTV2 is a cable network that is widely available in the United States on digital cable and satellite television, and is progressively being added to basic cable lineups across the nation. ... List of hip hop musicians is broken down into several smaller lists and categories: // Beatboxers DJs and producers Turntablists Groups Rappers Christian (rappers | groups) Fictional Singers Albanian (groups) American (rappers | groups) Angolan (groups) Australian (rappers | groups | Crews) Austrian Belgian (groups) Bosnian and Herzegovinan (rappers | groups) Brazilian (rappers | groups) British (rappers... An album (from Latin albus white, blank, relating to a blank book in which something can be inserted) is a packaged collection of related things. ...

From its inception to around the spring of 2007, the program had a length of one hour, running most weekdays at 7:00 P.M. Then, in February 2007, the program was reduced to half an hour and moved to weekdays at 3:00 P.M. ^[3] before finally moving to its current weekday 9:30 A.M. timeslot that it has held since June 2007.

The show has two spinoffs - MTV2's Sucker Free on sister channel MTV2, which plays only hip-hop videos and focuses more on obscure artists, and Sucker Free Latino on the Hispanic-oriented MTV network MTV Tres, focusing on Latino urban music, including videos by Hispanic-American artists as well as videos from Latin American artists. MTV2 is a cable network that is widely available in the United States on digital cable and satellite television, and is progressively being added to basic cable lineups across the nation. ... MTV Tr3́s (tres, Spanish for the number three) is an American cable, satellite and over-the-air network that prides itself as a bi-cultural entertainment destination. ...

References

1. ^ IMDB - "Direct Effect" (2000)
2. ^ Sucker Free episode for May 29, 2006
3. ^ MTV Schedule for the week of Feb. 11, 2007

External links

• Official site
• Sucker Free Blog