| Hip Hop Congress | |
| Type: | 501(c)(3) |
| Founded Date: | 1993 |
| Location: | Redwood City, California |
| Origins: | Oxnard, California |
| Area Served: | Worldwide |
| Focus: | Hip Hop Congress is a network of individuals and organizations that are driving the necessary transformation of the world by uplifting culture for the creative development of artists and young people through education, civic engagement, and equitable resource exchange. |
| Homepage: | www.hiphopcongress.com |
The Hip Hop Congress (HHC) is a non profit, international grassroots organization.[1] The organization's goal is to educate, demonstrate, commicate, and inspire hip-hop culture.[2] This includes events and workshops focused on the Hip Hop arts of DJing and turntablism, MCing/rapping, breakdancing, graffiti art and beatboxing. Between 2004 and 2008, it was part of an umbrella organizing group of hip hop groups called the Generational Alliance. Its headquarters is located in Redwood City, California. The Hip Hop Congress currently works with about 25 chapters on university campuses, high schools, and communities around the world.[3]
The Hip Hop Congress started as a loose confederation of hip hop arts groups, especially on college campuses.[4] 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. The two organizations accidentally discovered each other online later in 2000, and rather than fight over the name decided to join into one organization. After graduating from college, around 2003, they began attempting to solidify the Congress as a national organization. The first Hip Hop Conference occurred in 2006, at which there were over 20 chapters.