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Founding member of Grandmaster Flash And The Furious Five, The Kidd Creole – real name Nathaniel Glover – has been sentenced to sixteen years in prison for the manslaughter of a homeless man.The rapper – not to be confused with the frontman of Kid Creole And The Coconuts – stabbed John Jolly twice in the chest with a steak knife during an altercation in August 2017, which began after Jolly approached Glover on a New York street.Glover told police that Jolly had said “what’s up” as he approached. He assumed that Jolly was making a pass at him, stating: “I was a little annoyed by that.

Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five, has been sentenced to 16 years in prison for stabbing a homeless man to death.The rapper, real name Nathaniel Glover, was found guilty of manslaughter last month for the death of John Jolly, who was stabbed twice in the chest with a steak knife on a New York City street in August 2017. He died in hospital shortly after.Prosecutors accused Glover of stabbing Jolly after he became enraged because he thought Jolly was gay and making a pass at him.“To tell the truth, I thought he was gay. And because I thought he was gay, and he was saying that to me, ‘What’s up,’ I was thinking that he was thinking [that] I was gay,” Glover said in a videotaped interview with police.“So I was a little annoyed by that.

UPDATE, MAY 4:  Rapper Kidd Creole was sentenced today to 16 years in prison for the stabbing death of a homeless man.

found guilty of manslaughter in April for the 2017 killing of John Jolly, a 55-year-old vagrant and sex offender.“The defendant had committed a senseless and unwarranted act of violence that took the life of one of the city’s most vulnerable populations — the homeless,” said prosecutor Mark Dahl, who asked that Glover be sentenced to 18 years in prison.The Rock and Roll Hall of Famer — whose band churned out chart-topping tunes such as “Freedom” and “The Message” in the early 1980s — had faced up to 25 years in prison.During the sentencing hearing, Glover claimed he’d been wrongly cast as a killer.“I’m very disappointed in the way that that this whole situation played out. I’ve been portrayed as a callous and senseless [killer]… which is far from the person who I am,” he said in Manhattan Supreme Court.

A Manhattan jury found rapper Kidd Creole guilty of manslaughter Wednesday in connection with the 2017 fatal stabbing of a homeless man on the street. The rapper, whose real name is Nathaniel Glover, had gone on trial last month for the death of John Jolly, who was stabbed twice in the chest with a steak knife in midtown Manhattan in August 2017.

Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five, has been found guilty of manslaughter after stabbing a homeless man to death.The incident happened on August 1 2017, when Creole (real name Nathaniel Glover) encountered John Jolly, a 55-year-old homeless man, on the street in midtown Manhattan. Glover ended up stabbing Jolly twice in the chest with a steak knife. He died in hospital shortly after.The next day New York City police arrested Glover and charged him with second-degree murder.“To tell the truth, I thought he was gay and because I thought he was gay, and he was saying that to me, ‘what’s up,’ I was thinking that he was thinking [that] I was gay,” Glover said in a videotaped interview with police.“So I was a little annoyed by that.

Kidd Creole was found guilty of first-degree manslaughter in a New York City court in connection with the fatal stabbing of a homeless man named John Jolly, prosecutors said Wednesday.The 62-year-old musical artist, a member of the group Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five, faces a prison sentence of up to 25 years after a jury delivered the verdict after hours of deliberation following closing arguments in the case.Kidd Creole, whose real name is Nathaniel Glover, dropped his head when the jury delivered its guilty verdict, an eyewitness in the court told Rolling Stone. The latest:Kidd Creole, 62, was found guilty of first-degree manslaughter in a New York City court, in connection with the fatal stabbing of a homeless man named John Jolly, prosecutors said Wednesday.

Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five, has argued it was self-defence when he fatally stabbed a homeless man in New York City in 2017.The rapper is currently on trial for murder in a Manhattan court, with prosectors claiming Creole – real name Nathaniel Glover – stabbed John Jolly in the chest with a steak knife shortly before midnight on August 1, 2017, after Jolly approached Glover and asked, “What’s up?”It’s alleged that Glover, who was on his way to his maintenance job in Manhattan, was angered when Jolly approached him, believing he was gay and was flirting with him, the Associated Press has reported.“Ladies and gentlemen, this is New York City. It’s 12 o’clock at night.