Ground Control was a Canadian rap group from Ottawa, Ontario who released a 12″ single in 1991 (on Break North Records) and made a music video for their song “Another Dope Jam”.
In spite of seeing this video all the time on RapCity (Much Music’s rap music program) back in the day 1Mandatory CanCon requirements and there being relatively few domestic rap artists with music videos at the time may have had at least something to do with this I could find next to no information about this group 2Their Discogs page doesn’t even list the members, though the DJ went by the moniker DJ King Swift, and according to a nine-year-old YouTube comment one member is named Brad and another is named Wayne Morgan (not sure who is who, though) – and it doesn’t help either that according to Discogs there are at least 16 different artists that go by the name Ground Control. At any rate, I highly recommend this track to fans of Golden Age rap music as it more than lives up to its title.
EDIT: After doing a bit more digging, was able to determine that DJ King Swift now goes by the name Dirty Swift and is part of the production duo The MIDI Mafia. 3Apparently the duo produced “21 Questions” by 50 Cent, and Swift (born Kevin Risto) has a co-writing credit on the song as well
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