Breaking News- Hip-hop pioneer Kidd Creole charged with murder
Hip-hop pioneer Kidd Creole has been charged with murder in the stabbing death of a homeless man found Tuesday night on a Midtown street, police said.
Creole, whose real name is Nathaniel Glover, was arrested Wednesday and was accused of killing a 55-year-old man at the corner of E. 44th St. and Third Ave.
Glover, 57, was one of the members of Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five, a hip-hop group formed in the South Bronx in the 1970s.
“He gave some statements and he’s being charged,” the police source said.
The victim — whose name was not released — was homeless and staying at a shelter on the Bowery, police sources said.
Glover was part of a group that introduced rap to a mainstream audience with social commentary hits. The group’s biggest release was a classic called “The Message,” with the famous hook: “Don’t push me ‘cause I’m close to the edge. I’m trying not to lose my head.”
The group was inducted in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2007, the first hip hop group to make the cut.
Source NY Daily News