Sucker Free

''Sucker Free'', known as ''Sucker Free Daily'' on weekdays and then ''Sucker Free Countdown'' on Sundays, is MTV2's sole hip-hop video block. Previously, ''Sucker Free'' aired weekdays for one hour, then eventually sporadically until the week leading to February 28, 2010. ''Sucker Free Countdown'', its 2-hour top 15 countdown, aired Sundays at 11 am ET/ PT and 11 pm ET/PT. ''Sucker Free'' originated from a block branding of hip-hop videos on MTV2 Sundays called ''Sucker Free Sundays'' in 2002, and eventually became the branding of MTV's main hip-hop program weekdays from 2006 until 2008. In October 2012, the show was relaunched as '' The Week in Jams''.

History

''Sucker Free'' debuted on May 29, 2006. Its previous moniker, ''Direct Effect'', debuted on September 25, 2000, and was more robust in comparison to ''Sucker Free''. From its start, it was marketed and produced almost like a hip-hop version of TRL. However, as the network drifted away from music and began to promote general pseudo- reality programming to teens in afternoons rather than video-branded programming, the series became a pre-taped program consisting mostly of videos and some viewer interaction, and the time slot was pushed back to early A.M. hours (first 10 am, then 8 am, then as early as 6:30 am) before the program's end in 2008.

A limited archive of ''Sucker Free Countdown'' can be seen on ''Sucker Frees website on MTV2.com

In April 2008, the show became a subject of criticism by the Parents Television Council, whose research report ''The Rap on Rap'' claimed that ''Sucker Free'' and BET programs ''106 & Park'' and ''