The Main Ingredient

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Join DJ Cosm as he chefs up a weekly blend of delectable flavours. Formerly known as Mental Illness, the Main Ingredient remains Alberta’s longest running hip hop mix show. There’s no better way to cap off your weekend than a healthy serving of underground and classic rap. Sponsored by the Cold Garden Beverage Company Ltd.

  1. 1D AGO

    The Main Ingredient - Episode February 8, 2026

    Celebrating Black History Month with an all vinyl set.Playlist: Roy Ayers - We Live in Brooklyn BabyMonolith - Plan EhDan-E-O - RevengeIRS, featuring Planet Asia - No HesitationGolding & Skelitor - Oh My MYCitizen Kane - Monopoly MoneyBrassmunk - Dedicated 4 UMoka Only, featuring Abstract Rude - Rolling AlongP.E.A.C.E. - What They WantBlackalicious - DeceptionDel the Funky Homosapien - If You Must (Automator Remix)Casual - Rap GameSouls of Mischief - 93 Til InfinityBilly Cobham - HeatherMr. Complex, featuring Biz Markie - GlueMonsta Island Czars - Mic LineMadvillain - All CapsDangerdoom - El Chupa NibreFreddie Hubbard - Red ClayGil Scott Heron - Angel DustMiles Davis - Sweet PeaIke Turner - Getting NastyDragon Fli Empire - HeadphonesIan Kamau - Old SoulShades of Culture - MindstateObscure Disorder - The Entree

  2. FEB 2

    The Main Ingredient - Episode February 1, 2026

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  3. FEB 2

    The Main Ingredient - Episode February 1, 2026

    The Baz Bombers (and Stacey) do a 2025 deep dive into hip-hop. Expect razor-sharp lyricism, boom-bap revivalism, and thoughtful left-turns into jazz, alternative rap, and experimental textures. Veteran voices and underground torch-bearers collide! Wu-Tang affiliates, Nas & DJ Premier, and De La Soul sit comfortably beside boundary-pushers and emerging artists, including unreleased Local Music.... Enjoy! @bazbombers_cjswPlaylist: King Lou - You Got MeRicca Razor Sharp - Scene of the AccidentRicca Razor Sharp - I'm Home NowIron Lion & The EquAzn - Lay It DownNorman Sann - Let It BeginSAFRON BEATS, featuring Halfcut - Stack It UpBig Daddy Kane & RZA - Open Ya EyesDJ Deadeye, featuring Inspectah Deck, Method Man & Termanology - Drug PlotsChoclair & Rochester - March XXVIIBarry Darkley - It's Go TimeWu-Tang Clan, Mathematics & Method Man, featuring Benny the Butcher - Warriors Two, Cooley HighNas & DJ Premier - MadmanLordz of Brooklyn - Brooklyn PrideNorman Sann - Bar for BarWu-Tang Clan & Mathematics, featuring Raekwon, Inspectah Deck, Method Man & Cappadonna - MandingoTalib Kweli, J. Rawls & Javotti Media, featuring Maseo, Black Thought, Posdnuos, Mike G, Afrika & Busta Rhymes - Native Sons [Part 2]Wu-Tang Clan & Mathematics, featuring Inspectah Deck, GZA & Cappadonna - Executioners from ShaolinJZAC - Shake The TreeNorman Sann - Never Go BrokeDaemon - Megalodon (Top of the World)Wyzaker, featuring Contradiction, Iron Lion & King Lou - Where did the time go?Napoleon Da Legend - MackandalLords of the Underground & Snowgoons - Circle Of LifeLa Vilerie, featuring Masamoon - Chop SueyDJ Premier & Roc Marciano - Good To GoMark 4ord, featuring Blu & Itsxmusic - Cali KidsThe Blue, featuring Yongo - So Look at the Bright SideDe La Soul, featuring Nas - Run It Back!!Jarren Benton & Johnny Slash - Krang FreestyleKurious - Cloud NineJ. Sands, featuring Busy Bee & Grandmaster Melle Mel - Knock Em' OutWill Haze - Kennedy FlowFreddie Gibbs & The Alchemist - 1995Backxwash - 9th HeavenHit-Boy & The Alchemist - RickyKimmortal , featuring Super Duty Tough Work & Junia-T - Strange MazeKing Lou, featuring Wyzaker - Vagabond StoriesRicca Razor Sharp - Physio with Shanu at CarewestWestside Gunn - HEEL CENANate Smith, Marquis Hill & JSWISS - UNDEFEATED

  4. JAN 26

    The Main Ingredient - Podcast January 25, 2026

    Showfill by Miguel (@soleo333) of the Baz Bombers (@bazbombers_cjsw) covering for Cosm and sharing a selection of "Best of 2025" (not all released in 2025 - but about 75% is). East Coast to the West, plus local and some from Abroad! Gritty, Grimy Boom Bap! Enjoy!Playlist: King Lou, featuring The EquAzn - FacadeVisionaries - Let’s Grow (Radio Edit)Apollo Brown & Crimeapple - Know No BetterDoza The Drum Dealer, Hobgoblin & Kaeson Skrilla - Doza & KaeCoyote - Meet The LambsDJ Muggs & Heartbreak JC - Jesus Piece (Cassette)UFO Fev & Big Ghost Ltd - VenganzaConductor Williams & eLZhi, featuring Elijah Hooks - Hell in a HellcatRas Kass, featuring Mopreme Shakur, Daylyt, Bishop Lamont & Monstroe - Mapogo LionsConway the Machine, ILL Tone Beats & Black Soprano Family - Pick a SideMichaelAngelo, CRIMEAPPLE & Primo Profit - P.R.I.M.ORemedy, featuring RZA - Supreme IntellectCordae - Jean-MichelDiamond D, featuring B-Real & Everlast - IM NOT CRAZYNEMS - Go FishThe 17th Cipher, featuring IAMGAWD, Rufus Sims, Panamera P & Ju Jilla - Welcome to ChicagoTristate, featuring Opio & Casual - Let 'em KnowDJ Premier & Ransom - Amazing GracesWillie The Kid & Real Bad Man - Maxwell's Peacoat CollectionDeath At the Derby - Danger on the DocksMobb Deep - GunfireGhostface Killah, Raekwon, Method Man & GZA, featuring Reek Da Villian & Pills - The TrialWestside Gunn, featuring Stove God Cooks - ADAM PAGECRIMEAPPLE - SABADO GIGANTEA1 Beanz, featuring Ray Riley & JPatz - PrivilegeDough Networkz, Conway the Machine & Sirrealist - Sawed OffHugo Kant, featuring Miscellaneous - Us vs ThemLa the Darkman - Once Upon A Time In BrooklynSargeant X Comrade, featuring Prevail, Moka Only, Super Duty Tough Work & DJ WeezL - Distant LandsBlack Soprano Family & ILL Tone Beats, featuring Conway the Machine, Rome Streetz & Jae Skeese - ImpossibleDaniel Son & Ghost Notes - T.O.Queen Herawin, featuring Breeze Brewin - GluttonyMr. Shadow, Ice Cube & Kokane - Certified G'zDan-e-o - BarsmenDe La Soul - YUHDONTSTOPHalfcut & Cole The God - Thunder RumbleMickey Diamond & Oh Jay - Super Bowl RingsRedman & Method Man - Lalala

  5. JAN 19

    The Main Ingredient - Episode January 18, 2026

    Some brand new joints from 2026...Playlist: Shad, featuring Jon Kabango - K.I.S.S.BluRum13, featuring DJ Vadim - Open ShuddersSean Strickland - Top BoyTha God Fahim & Nicholas Craven - Super EffectiveErrol Eats Everything, featuring Rome Streetz - Round N Round (Statik Selektah Remix)Recognize Ali x D-Styles - Bad MonBernadette Price x Terror Van Poo - Burden of ProofRJ Payne - PTSDJ-Live - The Feeling (Illa Remix)Truth & Da Beatminerz - Redrum SeenRozewood - True FriendMIGHTYHEALTHY & Sankofa, featuring DJ Navin Johnson - Money PlasmaThe Vinz, featuring CRiPL - Move BackKing V, featuring Sosoon, act-1 & Unikron - Welcome 2 The KulbBukue One & ParanormL - SpitfireRJD2 & Supastition - Machines Like UsAktu El Shabazz - BirdseyeStylistic Murder, featuring Oddisee & Cam One - Feelings (Remix)Shabaam Saadiq, featuring General Steele - Top TierDJ Exes & Slamming Gavel Music - Material ThingsTona, featuring Adam Bomb - DangerousP.A. Dre, featuring Genecist, Illa Ghee, Ruste Juxx & Smooth Haynes - UnfamiliarFatnice & Meat Matta - The TimeOne Self - CaravanCymarshall Law & Slimline Mutha - Raw Self ExpressionNew World Colour, featuring Raw Poetic - Share the LoveSkyzoo - The SoloistJohn Jigg$ - BarFaxKillah Priest - Tea BreakBenny The Butcher, featuring Estee Nack - SupernaturalXP The Marxman & No Games - XP on Flack LudeFlee Lord & Jansport J, featuring Knowledge the Pirate - Ain't No LoveSpanish Ran, featuring David Jame$ - Amber InteriorYour Old Droog - Victims of the StreetEff Yoo & Rob Viktum - Flee the SceneFreddie Gibbs & The Alchemist, featuring Anderson .Paak - EnsaladaSolar-C, featuring Jarmond - Alive

  6. JAN 12

    The Main Ingredient - Episode January 11, 2026

    Some favourites from 2025...Playlist: Brian Jackson & Masters At Work, featuring Black Thought - The Revolution Will Not Be TelevisedDangermouse & Black Thought, featuring Rag'n'Bone Man - Up!Blueprint - Start With GratitudeDillon & Paten Locke, featuring Large Professor & J Scienide - No Bluffin'Polo Sho, featuring Talebson & vrong - Dice RollPropo '88 & Self the Bluest Eye - DreamsShad, featuring TLO - IslandsLittle Simz - FreeJ Scienide & Bes Kept - Funny Farm (We're on the Ship)Raz Fresco & Futurewave, featuring Daniel Son - Steve AustinSargeant & Comrade, featuring Prevail, Moka Only, Super Duty Tough Work & DJ WeezL - Distant LandsThe Bad Seed & Murda Megz, featuring LR Blitzkrieg - Watermelon ChunxHDXMM (Honey Dinero & Mura Megz), featuring Bernadette Price - The Sweet PriceFuzzy Ed - Memories on VHSHalfcut & Cole The God, featuring Daniel Son & Str8 Trip - Soul IceVon Pea & The Other Guys, featuring Oddisee - Knew It AllSkyzoo - DevotionYour Old Droog - GhostwriterThe Blue, featuring Bijaan - What A Crazy ThingRapsody & Madlib - Avon Through the WireDroogie Otis (Madlib & Your Old Droog), featuring Killer Mike - The EdgeSOVIETS (Jeff Spec & Chaix), featuring Moka Only & Planet Asia - PumpernickelTouch182 - HomeworkFreddie Gibbs & The Alchemist - A Thousand MountainsEvidence - Outta BoundsChe Noir & 7xvethegenius - TopangaBijaan - JungleTOBi & Real Bad Man - HeadcrackJamil Honesty & JR Swiftz - ChakrasErrol Eats Everything - Errol Eats EverythingJ-Live - Showing the WayDavePsy, featuring Casual - OneTruOdario, featuring Yolanda Sargeant & Mad Professor - The SituationTALEBSON - Let it SlidePotatohead People & Slippery Elm - Nightbird

  7. JAN 5

    The Main Ingredient - Episode January 4, 2026

    Celebrating the OGs who dropped new music in 2025. Strictly artists who've been releasing music for over 30 years.Playlist: De La Soul - The PackagePublic Enemy - What I SaidChuck D, featuring Daddy-O - New GensArrested Development - Pack It Out (Speech Soul Remix)Kurious & K-Rec - Cloud 9Big L, Shylow, featuring Nas - U Ain't Gotta Chance (Shylow Remix)DJ Chuck Chillout & Kool Chip - Go DownTalib Kweli & J. Rawls, featuring Maseo, Black Thought, Posdnuos, Mike G, Afrika, Busta Rhymes - Native Sons Pt. 2Slick Rick - LandlordDe La Soul, featuring Q-Tip & Yummy Bingham - Day in the Sun (Gettin 'Wit U)Edo. G - Be QuietDJ L-Way, featuring Ras Kass, Defari & Domino - Summer BreezeErick Sermon, featuring EPMD - Test MeMyka 9 & Blu, featuring Planet Asia - Bronze Arm & HammerTash, featuring King T, Tha Alkaholiks, Defari, Xzibit & Q-Tip - Attention is a Drug Remix)Diamond D, featuring KARDINAL OFFISHALL, PEEDI CRAKK & CHIP FU - Casket FreshDiamond D, featuring B-Real & Everlast - I'm Not CrazyGhostface Killah, featuring Raekwon, GZA, Method Man, Reek Da Villian & PIllz - The TrialNas & DJ Premier - GiT ReadyGodfather Don & Jazz Spastiks - UnstoppableIce-T - Hardcore mfkrBig Daddy Kane & The RZA - Open Ya EyesLords of the Underground & Snowgoons - Keep On RockinMasta Ace & Tom Caruana - Freedom House1999 WRITE THE FUTURE, Pharcyde - PhabulousRaekwon - Da HeaviesRedman, featuring Method Man - La La La (DJ Premier Remix)TNF Inc. (Thrust N Frankenstein) - Sizzle (Frankenstein Remix)Buck 65 - Drastic MeasuresKwamé - Hello / Anybody?YZ - PushNas & DJ Premier - Pause TapesDJ L-Way, featuring Troubleneck Brothers - Back in the DaysJeru The Damaja - That's WordSmif-N-Wessun, featuring Pharoahe Monch - MedinaMobb Deep - Against the WorldBored Stiff, featuring Pep Love - A New DayPhill Most Chill - Tunin You Out

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Join DJ Cosm as he chefs up a weekly blend of delectable flavours. Formerly known as Mental Illness, the Main Ingredient remains Alberta’s longest running hip hop mix show. There’s no better way to cap off your weekend than a healthy serving of underground and classic rap. Sponsored by the Cold Garden Beverage Company Ltd.

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  • Creator
    CJSW 90.9 FM
  • Years Active
    2016 - 2026
  • Episodes
    8
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Copyright
    © Copyright 2026 CJSW Radio

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