Hip-hop pioneer Kidd Creole has been charged with murder after fatally stabbing a homeless ex-con he thought was hitting on him on a Midtown street Tuesday night, police and sources said. Creole, whose real name is Nathaniel Glover, was arrested Wednesday morning, accused of killing John Jolly, 55, at E. 44th St. and Third Ave. Jolly served five years in prison for beating and raping a 42-year-old woman in 1997. He did an additional three years in 2008 on a weapons charge. Jolly was stabbed three times in the chest shortly before midnight on Tuesday, authorities said. He was taken to a nearby hospital, where he was pronounced dead less than an hour later. Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five is best known for their 1982 rap song, The Message. The group was formed in the late 1970s in the Bronx. The group was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2007, the first rap act to be inducted into the hall.
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