 hip-hop just celebrated its 50th anniversary but who really pioneered the genre wtupe entertainment reporter jason fraley previews a new documentary that delves into that question it's called microphone check there's a lot of misconceptions about hip-hop one of the biggest misconceptions is that we got hip-hop culture from caribbean culture and no it came from foundation of black american culture cultivated in the bronx director tarik nishid interviews the pioneering mcs of hip-hop