The Washington Post’s Express talks with underground rap icon Percy Carey about his new graphic memoir, Sentences: The Life of M.F. Grimm:
EXPRESS: Did you tailor your experiences at all to seem more heroic?
CAREY: Actually, I really was reluctant to write the stuff that I wrote out already. So I couldn’t do that. I would prefer to go into a fantasy realm of creating something brand new, then to try to write about myself or enhance myself to be something more than is humanly possible.
EXPRESS: Are there incidents that you just couldn’t include?
CAREY: It’s a lot of things that I didn’t include. That’s another reason why the medium of the graphic novel was cool. Say, for instance, if it was a film, then there’s a lot of detail that you would have to put in between. But a graphic novel was to my satisfaction, or my taste, because I was able to dictate it the way I chose. In my music I talk a lot about my life, but at times there’s no way to edit certain things when you’re discussing via MCing, or poetry, or things of that nature. The graphic novel is a great medium when you just want to get a story across but not tell everything about yourself.
Sentences was released last week by Vertigo. A nine-page excerpt can be read here.
