The Hip Hop Congress (HHC) is a non profit, international grassroots organization.

[citation needed] The Hip Hop Congress currently works with about 25 chapters on university campuses, high schools, and communities around the world.

[3] Its initial founders were Shamako Noble and Real Robinson IV, who formed two Northern and Southern chapters in 1997.

[5] In 2000, Jordan Bromley and Ron Gubitz started another campus activist group with the same name.

[5] After graduating from college, around 2003, they began attempting to solidify the Congress as a national organization.