FILE - Rapper Kidd Creole, whose real name is Nathaniel Glover, is arraigned in New York, Thursday, Aug. 3, 2017, after he was arrested Wednesday on a murder charge. The trial of the rapper 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, March 25, 2022 in Manhattan.(Steven Hirsch/New York Post via AP, Pool)