My Top 10 Most Replayed Songs of 2018 (According to My iTunes)

"Because Repetition is the Father of Learning" - Lil Wayne

The Mere Exposure Effect

According to Science, the more you see or hear something, the more you like it. 

This explains a lot of things...

like why the radio plays the same 3 songs over and over again. Or why people are comfortable listening to the same songs and same handful of artists.

Don't just take my words for it, check out these memes:

March Madness Day 9: Royce Da 5'9" - Layers

Cover Art for Royce Da 5'9's "Layers" (slightly customized by Joseph Sanker II)

Today's throwback review is about one Royce Da 5'9". A Detroit born wordsmith who's career has had ups and downs. Known for his early collaborations with fellow Detroit artist Eminem, Royce was known for those collabs until recently his career started gaining traction, starting in 2014 with his DJ Primere collaboration titled "PRHYME". Ever since "PRHYME" Royce had released a 2015, deluxe addition of "PRHYME" with features from Joey Bada$$, MF DOOM and others. Then in 2016, Royce released "Layers" which, I will be reviewing today in today's throwback review. (Also, PRHYME 2 out March 16, 2018, so why not post a Royce review?)

WE ARE NOW GOING BACK IN TIME TO 2016 JOSEPH S...

My Top 17 Favorite Guest Verses of 2017

Yes, 2017 is done and in the books. Now, that it's 2018, let's approach 2018, butt-first by looking back at the best of 2017. I know this is way later than the usual publications who publish their end of the year lists as early as the first week of December (which, I get why, but if you have major music releases coming out near the end of the year, why in the world would you snub those releases just to salvage a few extra clicks? I guess capitalism is a MF huh, gotta get that money.)

Anyway, today we'll be looking at the best "Guest Verses of 2017" where I'll be examining which rapper (or singer) came onto another artist's track and absolutely stole the show (not in a competition aspect but more in a "hey, this artist is really having a moment right now, and it so happened to be on another musician's song).

Top 16 Projects of 2016 (Get it? Cause "16" is in the year number?)

Truth be told I love doing lists and ranking things, as does any other Hip Hop head. I feel like it is in the nature of a head to systematically rank things when it comes to Hip Hop. Whether it'd be top rappers, top producers, top beats, top verses, top moments in Hip Hop or even top name brands worn by rappers who like to rap about that sort of stuff. 

Anyway, like I said before, I had a somewhat turbulent 2016, but I had a lot of good music to accompany me through that year. Here are the projects that I discovered and listened to throughout the course of last year. I hope you find at least one project or song that you didn't about before. I really tried, within the last year of 2016 especially. To try and find lesser known artists as well as projects from said artists to listen to. A few of my picks you won't find any on any other year end list as a ranked top pick (at least the ones I've seen) so without further ado let's get to number 16 which is...