Mark V. Campbell
Mark V. Campbell (aka DJ Grumps), founder at Northside Hip Hop Archive, is a DJ, curator, and scholar. As a co-founder of the Bigger than Hip Hop Show at CHRY 105.5 FM, Mark DJed and hosted the show from 1997–2015, and served as a Member of the Board at the Ontario Arts Council from 2015–2018. As a curator, Mark has organized exhibitions related to Canadian hip hop, including the T-Dot Pioneers trilogy, Mixtapes: Hip-Hop’s Lost Archive, …Everything Remains Raw: Photographing Toronto Hip Hop Culture from Analogue to Digital, and For the Record: An Idea of the North. As a scholar, Mark has published widely in various academic journals, and his co-edited collection We Still Here: Hip Hop North of the 49th Parallel was released in 2020 by McGill-Queen's Press.