Kidd Creole, Former Rapper With Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five, Found Guilty of Manslaughter
variety.comThania Garcia Former rapper Nathaniel Glover, aka “the Kidd Creole,” who was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five, has been convicted for the fatal stabbing of a homeless NYC man.Glover was arraigned in 2017 for stabbing 55-year-old John Jolly on the streets of midtown Manhattan.
On Wednesday, a New York Supreme Court jury found the 62-year-old Bronx native guilty of first-degree manslaughter.Glover was one of six members of Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five inducted by Jay-Z into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2007.
The group was responsible for the pioneering hip-hop smash “The Message.”The fatal encounter occurred just before midnight on Aug.
1, 2017, as Glover was walking to his maintenance job. Creole told authorities the altercation began when Jolly, whom he had never met, approached him on the streets and said, “What’s up?” “Ladies and gentlemen, this is New York City.
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