Kidd Creole’s Murder Trial Opens With Self-Defense Claim

Rapper Kidd Creole, whose real name is Nathaniel Glover, is arraigned in New York, Aug. 3, 2017, after he was arrested on a murder charge. Steven Hirsch/New York Post via AP, Pool, File

NEW YORK—The trial of rapper Kidd Creole has begun in New York City with his lawyer telling a jury it was self-defense when the hip-hop pioneer stabbed a homeless man to death in 2017.

The artist, a founding member of Grandmaster Flash and The Furious Five, is charged with murder and went on trial Friday in a Manhattan criminal court.