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Nathaniel Glover,

more widely known as Kidd Creole,

during his trial this year in Manhattan

for fatally stabbing a stranger

near Grand Central Terminal.

 

Photograph:

Pool photo by Steven Hirsch

 

The Fall of Kidd Creole: Inside a Rap Pioneer’s Tragic Descent

As a member of Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,

he helped invent hip-hop.

 

He spent the rest of his life

trying to recapture that glory.

 

Then, in seven minutes on a Manhattan street,

it all came to an end.

NYT

June 16, 2022

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/16/
nyregion/kidd-creole-nathaniel-glover.html

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Kidd Creole, right,

with Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five in 1984.

 

Photograph: Anthony Barboza

Getty Images

 

The Fall of Kidd Creole: Inside a Rap Pioneer’s Tragic Descent

As a member of Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,

he helped invent hip-hop.

 

He spent the rest of his life

trying to recapture that glory.

 

Then, in seven minutes on a Manhattan street,

it all came to an end.

NYT

June 16, 2022

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/16/
nyregion/kidd-creole-nathaniel-glover.html

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Kidd Creole / real name: Nathaniel Glover

 

founding member

of Grandmaster Flash

and The Furious Five,

 

(...)

 

Grandmaster Flash

and The Furious Five

formed in the late 1970s

in the Bronx.

 

The group's

most well-known song

is "The Message"

from 1982.

 

They were inducted

into the Rock and Roll

Hall of Fame

in 2007,

the first rap group

to be included.

https://www.npr.org/2022/04/07/
1091402240/kidd-creole-guilty-manslaughter

 

 

https://www.npr.org/2022/05/05/
1096871280/rapper-kidd-creole-sentenced-16-years-over-stabbing

 

https://www.npr.org/2022/04/07/
1091402240/kidd-creole-guilty-manslaughter

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Grandmaster Flash    USA

 

 

 


Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five - The Message

Music video

 

YouTube > VintageHipHopSeattle

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gYMkEMCHtJ4

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Grandmaster Flash

and The Furious Five

formed in the late 1970s

in the Bronx.

 

The group's

best-known song

is "The Message"

from 1982.

 

They were inducted

into the Rock and Roll

Hall of Fame in 2007,

the first rap group

to be included.

https://www.npr.org/2022/05/05/
1096871280/rapper-kidd-creole-sentenced-16-years-over-stabbing

 

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/16/
nyregion/kidd-creole-nathaniel-glover.html

 

https://www.npr.org/2022/05/05/
1096871280/rapper-kidd-creole-sentenced-16-years-over-stabbing

 

 

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2013/jul/26/
grand-master-flash-favourite-tracks 

 

 

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2009/feb/27/
grandmaster-flash-interview

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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