In Control, Volume 1 is the debut studio album by American hip hop record producer Marley Marl, of the Juice Crew.

The album compiles ten studio recordings by fellow Juice Crew members and artists affiliated with Marley Marl.

[2] The album is broken down track-by-track by Marley Marl in Brian Coleman's book Check the Technique.

So New York City Housing Authority kind of co-produced some of my earlier hits".

[4] Trouser Press noted that "the album's diversity is to its credit, but Marl gives too much play to second-string rhymers, leaving the LP's few highlights (such as the Biz twigging Barry Manilow in 'We Write the Songs' and Shanté playing cute word games in 'Wack Itt') adrift on a sea of verbal boreplay.