[MUSIC]
Yo this is Wilbert
with Munchies.
I'm about to link up
with one of the greatest
rappers of all time.
Roger and
I are gonna talk to
Scarface about his
brand new album,
his brand new book,
and what's it's
like when your mind is
playing tricks on you.
Mission Cantina's
known for
doing some of the most
craziest Mexican food.
Chef Zach Swemle's gonna
serve us up a wild lunch.
All right, so it's time
to meet him, let's go.
>> Do you guys
wanna order?
Do you want me
to cook for you?
>> What's this
right here?
>> It's raw beef heart.
>> Raw beef heart?
>> Raw beef heart.
[LAUGH].
>> Cut.
[LAUGH].
>> I just wanna try
some carrots man,
some barbecued carrots.
>> Barbecued carrots.
I could bring out
a couple other dishes,
whatever works.
>> No.
>> Carrots only?
>> Carrots.
I'm scared as fuck.
I'm, I'm scared to
even try something now.
You know, like, he stick
that beef heart in on
my ass, huh?
>> If I could have
sneaked a beef heart in,
>> I don't know, fuck it,
but I don't wanna
eat no owl brain and
shit either.
>> [LAUGH].
>> Right.
Don't
fucking surprise me,
don't just try it,
don't, that's not
gonna happen.
>> I won't do it!
>> All right,
I'm just like, man,
like, for real, like give
him all of that shit.
>> So, Mission Cantina
is a concept that
Danny Bowen came up with,
probably,
close to 2 years ago when
I started working for
him at
Mission Chinese Food.
Food we want to eat,
we don't want to go to a
nice dinner all the time.
We want to eat a taco or
eat Chinese food.
He doesn't necessarily
play by the rules.
Like, you know,
it's very free and
open to do whatever,
I think, like,
that's why I enjoy
working for him.
>> Uh-oh,
this ain't good.
Oh no.
>> All right.
I've got a couple
things here if
you want to try them.
Cow heart.
[INAUDIBLE]
>> What is that?
>> This is cucumbers.
>> Oh I
don't eat cucumbers.
>> No?
>> that.
>> Cool.
>> How about this?
>> What is that?
>> It's cauliflower,
carrots,
jalapenos, onions.
>> I'd, I'd pick at it.
>> It's got a So
it's like pickled.
>> It tastes
like pickles?
>> Yeah, a little bit.
>> Let me taste it.
[SOUND].
>> Man, that's
cauliflower?
>> Oh, fuck,
this is good.
[LAUGH] Good lord.
>> It's good?
>> This is good as
a motherfucker.
This is hot.
Shit.
The cauliflower.
What's that?
>> I guess it's kinda
like a broccoli.
You know what I mean?
At least that's what
I think about it,
like a white,
a white broccoli.
>> Is that racist?
>> What's your
workout regimen like?
>> Running, and up you,
up your water intake.
How many reps you do?
>> I don't work
out at all.
[INAUDIBLE] [LAUGH].
>> If you're working,
if you're working, you
know, chest or arms and
legs or whatever instead
of doing, you know,
five sets of ten,
do ten sets of 20.
You know,
that's what I'm gonna do.
Now I'm trying
to fucking,
like next time
you see me,
my shirt gonna go from
here to like there.
So neck, like I said my
neck gonna be fucked up.
[LAUGH] My neck gonna
be all tore up.
I'm gonna be
swole as fuck.
>> All right, this is
the shrimp ceviche.
>> But then what is
that on the top of it?
>> Cilantro.
That's the same one
that was one there.
>> Now,
what is this thing.
>> That's avocado.
>> Give him the avocado.
[LAUGH] Give
me the other.
What's this on
the bottom?
>> It's a lime
mayonnaise.
>> Oh no,
you gotta take this off.
You, take, yeah,
you can have them things.
[NOISE].
>> You don't have
to use no fork.
Just pull your
take your hand and
that shit off of there.
[LAUGH] There you go.
Oh this shit is good.
Ain't it man?
I'm gonna grab me
a couple pieces
of this shit and
you can have the rest.
This shit is excellent.
>> Ernest, you just
gotta try shit man.
>> Mm-hm.
>> Cuz this is
actually excellent.
>> Wow.
>> So yeah man.
I can't really even,
even tell you how
excited I was to
have the opportunity
to talk to you man.
Cuz I've like really
grown up just listening
to music and Ghetto Boys
is my, my dad's favorite,
favorite, favorite group,
use to play that.
>> Oh shit, now you
make me feel old and
shit like Ghetto Boy
like my daddy,
my daddy like
ya'll's shit.
>> No, no, no I love it.
I mean I use to,
he use to play it for
me going to, going to
elementary school,
going to first grade.
Like, you know,
We Can't Be Stopped and
stuff, those, those
records are incredible.
And The Diary is like
One of my all time
favorite records, like,
I love, I love it, man.
>> So you got, coming
out with a new album.
You know, I thought the
last record was gonna be
a world record.
>> It was.
>> What made you want to
come back in the game?
>> I really missed it.
I really wanted to
make a dope album.
The best part about it
was, I was doing it for
myself this time.
Munchies
>> Are there any new
themes that you
kinda talk about or
get into on this
record that
are different from where
you were at before?
>> I think that rather,
rather than look at that,
take an approach from,
you know, like I'm
trying to tap into
what the youngsters
are doing.
I just took the approach
of a, of an adult.
>> That's real.
>> That's carrots and
onions.
>> What's this?
>> Seaweed.
>> Like, out of
the damn lake seaweed?
>> [LAUGH] Yeah.
>> Is this edible?
>> Yup.
>> No.
That's a grass
[INAUDIBLE] you can't eat
that shit.
That shit will kill you.
[LAUGH] Oh shit.
Oh, dude.
You've got,
you know what?
You got, no,
you can't try it.
>> Stop.
>> Bro, you serious?
>> That's really good.
>> You were talking about
how you were making your
approach, of, taking
the approach of not,
you know, trying to-
>> People think I
look like a, a,
a grown ass man,
talking about turn up.
>> Right.
You think there's too
much trend hopping, with,
with, with rappers today?
>> I think to
each to his own.
>> Mm-hm.
>> You know,
I love them
being they self.
But I can't do them.
I gotta do me.
>> Right.
>> And I think
that's what a lot of
older musicians or
artists, I think they
miss the mark trying
to be somebody else.
Instead of saying,
you know, well shit, I'm,
I know I'm fucking 75
years old now I can't,
I can't rap like I'm
fucking 12 no more.
>> Right.
>> You know.
I think that's
fucking crazy.
That you,
your subject matter is,
is that of
a fucking teenager.
>> I did wanna ask you,
like.
You guys, you did so
much powerful, political,
all through your
whole career,
you've done
really powerful,
political statements and
stuff like that.
I was wondering do you
feel like things
have changed at lot?
From between like,
the late 80s early
90s and now?
Like in terms of, you
know, the prospects for
young black men?
>> I think things
are way worse.
>> You think
things are worse?
>> I just know.
That's the evidence of a
totally different animal.
>> Like,
what would you say
are some things that
young men need to be
looking out for
right now?
And which would be,
which would be-
>> Well,
I know it's unsafe for
little teenagers to walk
their neighborhoods.
It's, it's, it's unsafe
for a teenager to
listen to their music
at a loud level.
>> Right.
>> You know, it's
unsafe to be a kid and
unsafe to be a black kid.
I mean how the fuck can
you stand your
ground on a child?
>> Right.
>> Why do you think
the reason is that
the politics are not in
music, is it because
are the young people who
are making it
don't know it,
or is it because
there's someone.
Some kinda corporation or
corporate media
behind it.
>> It used to be a,
it used to be a,
politically charged game.
I'm thinking if you take
the politics out of it
all, if you take
the education out of it,
then you got
a generation of
dummies running
around here.
Blabbing That's
just the way I
feel about this shit,
I could be wrong.
So you're too young to
remember this, but.
I remember when wack
MCs got no play.
If you was a fuckin'
wack ass rapper,
they didn't
fuck with you.
>> Right.
>> They, they, they,
they booed you.
Nowadays it makes
it cool to be wack.
You know what I'm sayin'?
Like, it's only a couple
of dope ass rappers that,
that you're
going to hear in
the mainstream right now.
>> Right.
>> Back in the gap,
like, we had, tours and.
It was just, it was just,
it was just
something dope.
You felt like you
was a part of
something great man.
You know, Ghetto Boys,
Too Short, NWA, you know,
Eminem, Doctor Dre.
Like, you know,
great shows man.
>> Right.
>> You knew you was
gonna be, like Outkast,
you knew that you was
coming to see a hell
of a fucking show.
[MUSIC]
Hey man,
well thank you so
much for talking man,
I really appreciate it.
>> Bro, like I appreciate
you having me to,
you know,
to do this shit.
And sharing some,
some great, whatever
the fuck this is.
>> [LAUGH]
>> Let's see,
what was my favorite?
I think the fried
monkey brains.
It was the best.
>> Thank you for trying
to take care of this.
>> No, no, that's what
I just said, try.
It was great.
It's more like a try,
like bring some shit
out and let me try it.
Like, it's going to be
very difficult to order
from the menu.
Like, you know what,
tell them what you
don't like and
he'll bring the shit out.
Like I said,
it was excellent.
Now, if I had to say
what it was, and
what kind of restaurant
it is, it's like, try it.
You'll like it.
>> Try it,
you'll like it.
[LAUGH]
>> I ain't never in my
life ever thought I would
like the way fucking
cauliflower tasted.
