The Main Ingredient

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The Main Ingredient episodes

April 27The Main Ingredient - Episode April 26, 2026
Showfill by @soleo333 aka Miguel of the Baz Bombers!
Who randomly realized 1996 was 30 years ago and decided to make a tribute to a great year in Hip Hop! Enjoy!

Playlist:
Bone Thugs-N-Harmony - Tha Crossroads
Do or Die - Po Pimp
Lost Boyz - 1, 2, 3
Geto Boys, featuring Menace Clan - Blind Leading the Blind
2Pac - Hail Mary
Nas, featuring Lauryn Hill - If I Ruled The World (Imagine That)
Fugees - Fu-Gee-La
JAY-Z - D'evils
Dan-e-o - Dear Hip-Hop
Nas, featuring AZ, Cormega & Foxy Brown - Affirmative Action
2Pac - To Live & Die In L.A.
Cypress Hill, featuring Eric Sermon, Redman, MC Eiht - Throw Your Hands In The Air (Remix)
Nas - The Message
Rascalz - FitNRed1
Mobb Deep, featuring Method Man - Extortion
Blahzay Blahzay - Danger
Concrete Mob - Boiling Point
Jeru The Damaja - Ya Playin' Yoself
Dr. Dre, featuring RBX, KRS-One, B-Real and Nas - Group Therapy / East Coast - West Coast Killas
The D.O.C. - Return of Da Livin' Dead
Eazy-E - Just Tah Let U Know
Xzibit - Paparazzi
RZA, featuring Method Man & Cappadonna - Wu-Wear: The Garment Renaissance
Ghostface, featuring Inspectah Deck & RZA & Raekwon & Masta Killa - Assassination Day
Heltah Skeltah - Leflaur Leflah Eshkoshka
Busta Rhymes - Woo Hah!! Got You All In Check
Black-1 - No Lawz
2Pac, featuring Tha Dogg Pound and Method Man & Redman - Got My Mind Made Up
Westside Connection - Bow Down
Westside Connection - The Gangsta, The Killa and the Dope Dealer
Ghetto Concept - U.L.
2Pac - Can't C Me
Mobb Deep - Drop A Gem On 'em
A Tribe Called Quest - Phony Rappers
Redman - Whatever Man
Xzibit - The Foundation
Ghostface Killah, featuring Cappadonna - Winter Warz
Delinquent Habits - Tres Delinquentes
Outkast - Babylon
Outkast - Wheelz Of Steel
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April 20The Main Ingredient - Podcast April 19, 2026
Showfill by Miguel (BazBombers) exploring (mostly) new music... 2025 and 2026 releases heavily... Lots of lesser known artists! At least 12 artists that haven't been played on CJSW previously!
Definitely a gutter undertone - underground, street, anti-establishment, anti-racism!! Hip-Hop STAND UP!!!!

Playlist:
Oh No, featuring The Alchemist - Gutter Streams
PFG - BACK ROAD DREAMERS
DJ Muggs, featuring T.F & Rome Streetz - Water Whip
B1 the Architect & Le Zeppo - Blues Brothers
DJ Muggs & Heartbreak JC - Lay It Down
Saukrates, featuring Choclair & AK416 - Mr Pendergrass
Walkman - Push Button
Lex Lavo, featuring Yon Cash & Gordo Flea - Championships
Brother Ali - Sunbeam
Willie The Kid & Real Bad Man - Maxwell's Peacoat Collection
Coyote, featuring Conway the Machine & Statik Selektah - Give Me A Hell Yeah!
Coyote, featuring Sirrealist & Statik Selektah - Shoebox Money
Nickelus F - Ghost Gun
Coyote, featuring Statik Selektah, B-Real & Sick Jacken - Whippin’ Cream
Jay Worthy, featuring Method Man - Visions
The Musalini, Smoke DZA & John Dutch, featuring Fuego Base - Blues
The Bad Seed & MurdaMegz, featuring Tone Spliff & LR Blitzkrieg - Watermelon Chunx
Marlon Craft - Analog Man
The Bad Seed & MurdaMegz - Almighty Mighty
SITES & Akmekoolbeats, featuring Ruste Juxx & JabbaThaKut - Built For This
BEAMIN & Tim Originally Gifted - Stockton & Malone
Saukrates, featuring ardinal Offishall & Tracks - WE CAN GO
Coyote, Locksmith, R.A. the Rugged Man & Statik Selektah, featuring Locksmith, R.A. the Rugged Man - Whats Peace?
Raiza - Dangerous
Quantacious - Seraphim for Sale
Saukrates - SEASON ONE
Reverie & Louden, featuring Coyote - Brown Representation
Murkemz - I'M ILL
Termanology & Royal Flush, featuring TEK & UFO Fev - Legendary Blocks
Delinquent Habits - Burn Up
Gordo Flea - OMW
Stann Smith - God
Xzibit, B-Real & Demrick - This Thing of Ours
Barry Darkley - In The Spot
Cole East - Piano
Norman Sann - Something Fun
Choclair - RocDat
Czarface, featuring Method Man - Nightcrawler
Hus Kingpin, featuring RZA - RZA FANGS
Cypress Hill & Alemán - Wacha Trucha
B. Dolan - How I(CE) Could Just Kill A Man
Lyrics Born, featuring P-Lo & Trackademicks - I Love Myself
E the Profit - Gotta Go
Choclair, featuring Classified - Hurt Everybody
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April 13The Main Ingredient - Episode April 12, 2026
Cosm recommends his top ten films to watch at the upcoming Calgary Underground Film Festival. Visit www.calgaryundergroundfilm.org for all the festival info.

Playlist:
Oddisee & Heno - MIMS
Konteks, featuring Vsteeze - Really With It
Nec Nymbi & Memphis Reigns, featuring Shark, Es & DJ K-Flip - Remember Back In Da Days
Emskee & MiLKCRATE, featuring Tone Spliff - You Think I'm Loosin'
Decksterror, featuring Juga-Naut Micall Parknsun, Teach Em & Montener the Menace - Golden Eagle
Nejma Nefertiti - Sesame & Sumac
John Jigg$ & Ezelpee - Bottom line
RJD2 & Supastition, featuring J-Live - Expiration Date
Greg Cypher - Apollo Ohno
J Scienide - Stay Tuned
Finale, featuring Dj Illogik - Wishing
Halfcut & Cole Da God - Green Stacks (Fuzzy Ed Remix)
Your Old Droog & Tha God Fahim - Meshugena
Tone Chop & Frost Gamble, featuring Grea8Gawd - GawdBrovas Connect
Mad1ne - My Standard (All I Have)
Rex Seshunz & Unknown Mizery - Kali Mantra
Finale, featuring Fatt Father - Honor The Code
Awon & The Other Guys - The Embrace
Mickey Diamond & Big Ghost Ltd - D.R.E.A.M.
Bobby Craves, Chef Mike & Fazeonerok - Everyday Kids
Daniel Son & Futurewave, featuring Sayzee - Ocean Smock
Mick Jenkins & greenSLIME - Tai Chi
WateRR & Vanderslice - Every Verse Is A Spell
New Villain & Simon Hampton, featuring P-Ro - Abstract Legion
Ichiban Don, featuring 7xvethegenius - Ice Cube (Budamunk Remix)
Flee Lord, featuring Mickey Factz - Suburban Views
B1 the Architect & Young Reese Dude - Free Your Mind
Al-Doe & Spanish Ran - The Blizzard
Epic, featuring Inky - Us
Napoleon Da Legend, featuring Skyzoo - Tough Skin
YEAROFJORDN & Brother Tom Sos, featuring Brother T - Red Wing Bison
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April 06The Main Ingredient - Episode April 5, 2026
Instrumental Album Showcase: Futurewave - Soundwave

Playlist:
DNTE & Che Uno - Korean BBQ
Pounds448 & Digi Scale Donnatella, featuring Melanie Rutherford - Moving
Emskee & MiLKCRATE, featuring DJ Jon Doe - Not Your Average
J-Live - Loose No Time (Illa Remix)
RJD2 & Supastition, featuring J-Live - Wins and Losses
The Du-Rites - On the Floor
RZA, featuring Roxanne Shante - Roxanne the Truth
Sam R I & Truelove - Fly Away
LEX - Everyday Music
Sonnyjim & Sumgii - Muse
Penpals - Executive Props
August Fanon, Billy Woods, featuring Al Divino - Maquilladores
Elucid & Sebb Bash, featuring Billy Woods - The Lorax
Fat Ray & Raphy, featuring Billy Woods - Change Us
Moonchild, featuring Jill Scott & Rapsody - Not Sorry
Mick Jenkins & greenSLIME - Vincennes
Blu & Exile, featuring Rome Streetz & ICECOLDBISHOP - Crumbs
Casual - Hard Drive Music
.idk., featuring Black Thought - P.O
Khrysis & Pete Rock - Already
Larry June, Curren$y & The Alchemist - Drive Alone
Sleep Sinatra & Heather Grey - The Veil
Spice Programmers, featuring Sleep Sinatra - Architecture
Fresh A.I.R. (AWOL One, Id Obelus, Rove), featuring Myka Nine - Fresh Air
Epic, featuring Emprime - Hathaway's Diner
Nejma Nefertiti, featuring Destruct - Tribe Shit
OC From NC, featuring Median - Today's Forecast
New Villain & Simon Hampton - The Uncanny
Rex Seshunz & Unknown Mizery, featuring DJ Lando - Perfect Stranger
Frankky Smaccz, D.O.V, Plasma XL, Daniel Son, Verdinyo - Hand 2 Hand
Daniel Son & Futurewave - Lil Earl
Halfcut & Cole Da God, featuring Daniel Son - Soul Ice (Fuzzy Ed Remix)
Ethemadassasin & D.R.U.G.S. Beats - Sticker Shock
Shabaam Saadiq, General Steele, Es-K - Top Tier
Ransom x Boldy James x Nicholas Craven - 16 Tithes
Born Allah, featuring Don Salaam & Ta'Raach - Damn
Cold Camp - The Camp Anthem
Cold Camp - Ghost In The Snow
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March 30The Main Ingredient - Episode March 29, 2026
Playlist:
Tash - Shoe Fits
Bukue One & ParanormL, featuring Del & Kamau - Classick
K-Rec & Birdapres, featuring Moka Only - Say Goodbye To Your Friends
Awon - Since 87
Fresh Kils & Myer Clarity, featuring Roshin & DJ Versatile - End of Days
Errol Eats Everything, featuring Rome Streetz - Round N Round (Statik Selektah Remix)
QNC & Proppo '88 - Anotha Level
Snowgoons, featuring Cali Agents & Mr Erbie - Mad Max
Es & Nec Nymbi - Celebrity Warship
Prozack Turner, featuring Mark Stretch - Leisure Rules
Bijaan - Fashure
Fliptrix, featuring Ayah Marar - Transform
Buck 65 - The Wooga
Rosco P Coldchain & Nicholas Craven - Benz Sprinter
Daniel Son & Futurewave, featuring Asun Eastwood - Ticket Sales
Daniel Son & Manzu Beats, featuring Reek Osama - Fire In The Hole
Rapswell & SQ, featuring NAHreally & Marcus Pinn - Floating Over The City
Def Soulja, featuring BVNGS - Pay What You Owe
Thaione Davis - Breathing Over Breaks
Von Pea - Make A Living
Kurious x Lord Sear - God Thoughts
Brother Ali - Another Country
Legit, featuring LeZeppo - The Anchors of Time (Remix)
Dookie Bros - No A.C.
Bernadette Price x Terror Van Poo - Kissing the Ground For Sinners
Mic Bless x Merge Beats, featuring DJ Romes - For the Culture
Elucid & Sebb Bash, featuring Breeze Brewin - Fainting Goats
Ferris Blusa & Swab - Falls Count Anywhare
Black Milk - Crash Test Dummy
The Bad Seed - Non Negotiable
King Topaz, featuring Truth Emcee & DJ JS-1 - Too Ill
Len-Dor x Travesty the Lazy Emcee x DJ Kawon - It's Like That
Justo The MC & Maticulous - Stone Cold
Ill Conscious & Finn - Pupils Become Rivals
Serial Killers (B-Real, Xzibit and Demrick) - By Any Means
Kurious - Phase Two
Bop Alloy - One Prize
Sampa the Great - Can't Hold Us
Cold Camp - Cold Cash
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March 16The Main Ingredient - Episode March 15, 2026
Instrumental album showcase: Fuzzy Ed - Static Desires

Playlist:
Lice - Who Sent You?
Emskee & MiLKCRATE - Coming To Get You Pt. 2
J-Live - Runnin' Scared (Illa Remix)
Jill Scott, featuring DJ Premier & Tierra Whack - Norf Side
EPMD - Test Me (DJ Scratch Remix)
Chill Rob G, featuring Treach - Intrusive Thoughts
H&L Associates (Hastyle & Luck) - Day 2
Casual - The Doctrine
QNC - Anotha Level
Buck 65 - Benedictus Satanas
Nejma Nefertitti, featuring Pos & Shortie No Mas - Goddess
Black Thought & 9th Wonder - Brick and Mortar
Señor Kaos and A Producer Named 2 - Discipline or Desire
Es, featuring DJ Close - New Year New Outlook
Napoleon Da Legend, featuring Vinnie Paz - Addis Abba
Len-Dor x Travesty the Lazy Emcee x DJ Kawon - Time Keeps Ticking
K-Rec & Birdapres - Magic Eye 8 Ball
K-Rec & Casual - Sunshine Promises
K-Rec & Sadat X - Happiness
K-Rec & Birdapres, featuring Kaboom Atomic, Emcee K-Ski, Estea Elements, and the boar, Nige - Rappers Swiftly
Cali Agents - We Here Now
Bush Babees, featuring Chubb Rock & Rampage - The Bush (Remix)
Casual, featuring Del the Funky Homosapien & Tajai - Believe In You
Errol Eats Everything, featuring Planet Asia - Creases (Furious Evans Remix)
RZA, featuring Craig G - Lolita
The Nemesis Two - Skiddly Doo Dip
Bukue One & ParanormL - Winning
RJD2 & Supastition - One Last Time
Touch182 - Trees Sun Us
Dookie Bros - No A.C.
Blu & Exile - Soul Unusual
CRIMEAPPLE x Evidence, featuring Blu - Pinto
Tona, featuring Skyzoo - FRFR
Bijaan - Fashure
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March 09The Main Ingredient - Episode March 8, 2026
This week Cosm is joined in the booth by the one and only, SGJB for an all vinyl tribute to the late, great, Bob Power; one of hip hop's most important engineers, who sadly passed away on March 1, 2026.

Playlist:
A Tribe Called Quest - After Hours
Stetsasonic - Faye
A Tribe Called Quest - Vibes and Stuff
De La Soul - Pass the Plugs
Chi Ali - Road Runner
Fu-Schnickens, featuring Phife Dawg - La Schmoove
Run DMC - Come On Everybody
A Tribe Called Quest - Stir It Up (Steve Biko)
Jungle Brothers - 40 Below Trooper
Stetsasonic - No B.S. Allowed
Big Daddy Kane - Trouble Man
Grand Daddy I.U. - Represent
De La Soul, featuring Biz Markie - Stone Age
Dee-Lite - Groove is in the Heart
GZA, featuring D'Angelo - Cold World (Remix)
Killah Preist - B.I.B.L.E.
Da Bush Babees - Gravity
Organized Konfusion - Questions
A Tribe Called Quest - Mind Power
Erykah Badu - On and On
Common, featuring Slum Village - Thelonius
D'Angelo - Alight
De La Soul - I Am I Be
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March 02The Main Ingredient - Episode March 1, 2026
Playlist:
Hip Club Groove - Shootin' The Gift
Mr. Fantastik, featuring Tarik Robinson - Breakdown
J & Mo, featuring Emcee D Roc Gail - Rhymes Be Bomb
Jack Jones - Motivate & Move
Oxygen - Dropping Bombs
BambuDeAsiatic, featuring Supastition, Sim Serenade & Yamin Semali - The Good Life
Martha Knuckles - Give Me Room
Dillon & Tom Caruana - Let's Go BAck
Ill Treats & Glad2Mecha, featuring Grand Puba - Make It Happen
Dragon Fli Empire, featuring Von Pea - Right On Time
D'Jar One, featuring Bumble Bzz - LH Vibe
Thes One - Mike and Chris Leave For Their First Tour
Cut Beetlez, featuring Soundsci - Droppon' Needles
Jorun PMC - Check Out This
Truck, featuring Phill Most Chill - 3,665
Emskee - Wall To Wall
The Good People, featuring Masta Ace - The Feel
Mid Century Modern - Stollen Moments
Sargeant & Comrade - The Revolution Will Not Be Televised (Rework)
The D&D Allstars , featuring Mad Lion, Doug E. Fresh, KRS-One, Fat Joe, Smif-N-Wessun, Jeru the Damaja - Pass It (Remix)
Lord Finesse - Return of the Funkyman
No Concept - Help Us We're Dope
Common Sense - Book of Life
Reflection Eternal, featuring Mos Def & Mr. Man - Fortified Live
Pete Rock - Pete's Jazz
Kamaal/The Abstract - Feelin'
Fatlip, featuring Chali 2na - Today's Your Day
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February 23The Main Ingredient - Episode February 22, 2026
Happy Black History Month! The week Cosm is joined in the booth by the legendary, SGJB, the owner of Calgary's deepest hip hop vinyl collection. Tune in for two hours of classic Canadian hip hop on wax.

Playlist:
Gamilah Shabazz, featuring Ice Cube, Grand Puba - America Is Living In A War Zone
Kish - Crates to Concrete
Michie Mee & LA Luv - On This Mic
The Incredible Ease - Who Rocks? (Remix)
Choclair, featuring Julie Black - What It Takes
Maestro Fresh Wes - Watchin Zeroes Grow
Simply Majestic, featuring B Cool - Dance To The Music
Self Defense - The New Mania
Organized Rhyme - Luv 1
Ground Control - I Got a Message
SMI - Toe Print
Clarence Gruff - Unsolved Mystery
Supreme Being Unit - Last Laugh
Swollen Members - Bless and Destroy
RTA (Running the Asylum) - In Decision
Rascalz - Really Livin
Dream Wariors - Day In Day Out
Brothers From the Ghetto, featuring Frank Morell - The The Music D.J.
Ron Nelson - B Boy Destruction
Pip Skid - Hypochondriac
Tachichi & DJ Moves - Union Strike
Graffiti Logik - Can I Get A Yo
Cipher - Peeps
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February 16 The Main Ingredient - Episode February 15, 2026
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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.