The stabbing incident happened as Creole was heading to his maintenance job in midtown Manhattan around midnight on Aug. Creole allegedly stabbed John Jolly twice in the chest with a steak knife after becoming enraged because, his lawyer said, he thought Jolly was gay and hitting on him. The rapper is claiming self-defense in the case. He is slated to be sentenced on May 4.ĮARLIER: Kidd Creole, part of Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five, the first rap group to be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, is on trial for murder in New York City.Ĭreole, whose real name is Nathaniel Glover, is accused of stabbing a homeless man to death in 2017. The 62-year-old Creole faces a possible sentence of up to 25 years. UPDATED: Rapper Kidd Creole has been found guilty of first-degree manslaughter for fatally stabbing a homeless man. Its songs include such classics as “The Message” and “New York New York.” Kidd Creole was an original member of Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five, the first rap group to be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Those things were not known and don’t have much relevance in terms of anybody’s action in this case.” “You didn’t know that he had a violence or was a sexual offender. “You didn’t know him,” she told him in court. The judge did not believe the defendant’s claims of self-defense.
