Rap pioneer Kidd Creole has been sentenced to 16 years in prison for stabbing a homeless man he thought was gay in New York City.
Nathanial Glover, aka Kidd Creole, 62, stabbed 55-year-old John Jolly in Midtown Manhattan in 2017. Glover was convicted of first-degree manslaughter last month and today was sentenced to 16 years and five years of post-release supervision.
He pleaded not guilty and his attorneys are arguing he lashed out in self-defense.
He stabbed Jolly twice in the chest with a steak knife after he thought the man was hitting on him on his way to his maintenance job in the city around midnight in August 2017.
Authorities said Jolly had asked him: 'What's up?' He was later found by tourists and was transported to the hospital, where he died. you
'The defendant confessed to pulling out a kitchen knife and repeatedly thrusting it into the body of a stranger on the street, killing him Was there anything that would prevent him from simply running away from Mr. Jolly? No,' Assistant DA Mark Dahl said during the trial.
Glover condemned his reputation as a killer at his sentencing, saying: '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.
'I’ve been slandered and all this made me seem as if I am a person who actually has no remorse and no repentance.'
Rap pioneer Kidd Creole, 62, has been sentenced to 16 years in prison and five years of post-release supervision for stabbing a homeless man he thought was gay in New York City
The musician, whose legal name is Nathaniel Glover, stabbed John Jolly, 55, twice in the chest with a steak knife after he thought the man was hitting on him. Jolly reported asked him: 'What's up?' Glover fled the scene after the attacked and washed the knife at work before getting on a subway and disposing the knife in a Bronx subway station
Glover (second from right) was a member of the New York City-based Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five, hailed as a group of pioneers in the hip-hop movement with their signature track, The Message
The artist said he he believed he was be 'exonerated' and that he feels 'at a certain point the trust of all of this will be revealed,' the New York Post reported.
In the years prior to the stabbing, Glover had been living by himself in a Bronx apartment and working in a copy shop a few blocks away from the stabbing incident.
Glover fled the scene and went to his office, where he washed the knife, and later disposed of it in a sewer at the Bronx subway station about 15 minutes later, TMZ reported.
Police recovered the weapon the following day, when Glover was arrested and charged with second-degree murder in connection with the stabbing. He has been in custody at Rikers Island jail complex since then.
Glover told authorities in a taped interview that he 'was a little annoyed' in thinking that
