 In other news, the music world just celebrated 50 years of hip-hop, but who really started the genre? WTOP Entertainment reporter Jason Fraley previews the new documentary, Microphone Check, which looks to answer that question. When people talk about hip-hop being born in the Bronx, they don't humanize it. They make it seem like it just fell out of a building and came up out of the concrete and slithered out of the sewer. No, it came from people. Director Tariq Nasheed interviews the pioneering emcees of hip-hop.