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Weekly music release by Kanye West From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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GOOD Fridays was a weekly free music release by rapper Kanye West, launched in support of his fifth studio album My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy (2010), and again for his seventh studio album The Life of Pablo (2016). The original intention was to release a free new song every Friday for a few months to promote his album, and the weekly tracks generally featured various rappers from his label, GOOD Music, and other artists he usually collaborated with.[1] All of the GOOD Friday tracks come with their own cover art.[2] West initially announced that the free music program releases songs from August 20, 2010, to Christmas 2010. However at the beginning of November, West announced that he was extending GOOD Fridays until the end of January (although this never ended up happening).[3]
15 tracks have been released through the program and three tracks appeared on West's album My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy, those tracks being "Monster", "Devil in a New Dress" (with a new Rick Ross feature), and "So Appalled".[4] Meanwhile, a remix to "Power", a track on the album, was released as the first song in the series, an alternate version of the remix of Justin Bieber's "Runaway Love" (previously a track on his album My World 2.0) was released on Justin Bieber's remix album, Never Say Never: The Remixes, the song "Looking for Trouble" was released as a bonus track on J. Cole's third mixtape, Friday Night Lights, "Christmas in Harlem" was released on streaming services, and "The Joy" would be released much later, as one of the deluxe tracks to Kanye and Jay-Z's collab, Watch the Throne, around a year later.
The program was relaunched in 2016 in support of The Life of Pablo; 3 tracks were released through the relaunch, with all of the tracks ("Real Friends", "No More Parties in LA", and "30 Hours") appearing on the album. West described the series as "an exercise in the power of art."[5]
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