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Top rapper arrested and charged with murder

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Rapper Kidd Creole has been charged with second-degree murder over the fatal stabbing of a homeless man, ABC News has confirmed.

Police report that the star – who shot to fame as one of the founders of the legendary group Grand Master Flash and the Furious Five – used a steak knife to stab the victim twice in the chest and once in the head in New York City on Tuesday.

He was allegedly reacting to being called a gay slur.

The 1970’s music icon had been working as a midnight security guard at a building near where the incident took place.

The victim was found on the sidewalk and later died at a local hospital.

He has since been identified as 55-year-old registered sex offender John Jolly.

This isn’t the first time that Kidd Creole has found himself in trouble with the law.

The 57-year old was arrested in 2007 for possession of a gravity knife and also had three other arrests dating back to the 1980’s.  

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Grandmaster Flash & the Furious Five, 1984 (Credit: Getty)

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