Ashley Sierra agrees. She first started attending Boom Bap shows about two years back and started getting onstage about a year ago. "The thing that's so amazing about it is to watch everything come together organically from scratch," she says. "Most of the time when you go to a hip-hop show it's mostly a lot of oversaturated music. It is what it is, but I like to see something that comes together live, when you really test a person's skill. You want to be a good MC, you got to keep up with things that are happening in the moment. It trains you to feel the music, just let the music talk to you, and everyone's doing something so as they go you just want to catch the vibe of what's being said."