In my documentary film, Microphone Check, we delve into these myths and illuminate the true roots of hip-hop, firmly anchored in Foundational Black American (FBA) culture. Rapping and Rhyming ...

Someone picked up a mic and spontaneously started rhyming over the the breakbeat, and that's how hip-hop was born. In the five decades since that eureka — or, rather, that "yoooo" — moment, hip-hop ...