'Fire in the Booth' is one of the more recent platforms for budding artists to express themselves to a wider audience. Hosted by Charlie Sloth, when it first arrived it was a great little rival to the F64 and other similar spotlit stages for unknown artists.
HOWEVER, is it fair to say it peaked too early?
What I'm talking about is K Koke's Fire in The Booth which roared through the internet causing views and likes to accumulate into a viral euphoria which ultimately lead to the Stonebridge kid's signature on a RocNation contract.
So now, when a potential talent goes onto do a Fire in the Booth, is he/she not inevitably going to be charted and weighed up next to the famous K Koke FITB? The epicness of what he did is almost impossible to re-create; it's very difficult to get humans (particularly those of the hip hop faith) to give up what they fell in love with first in exchange for something new and equally qualified in skill and excitement.
We get very attached and eccentrically loyal to the thing that wowed us the first time that we very rarely say yep this new one's better or just as good. It's the same reason why people will never let 50 cent be as great as he was because they won't give up the feeling of when he first came out with Get Rich or Die Tryin'.
So, is the Fire in the Booth concept a useless one for up and coming rappers?
Lend me your thoughts @rikybains1
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