Nathaniel Glover, aka The Kidd Creole of Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five, has been sentenced to 16 years in prison after being found guilty for second-degree manslaughter in New York City on Wednesday (May 4).

Mr. Glover, 62, was convicted of manslaughter last month in the death of John Jolly, 55. Glover encountered Jolly while heading to work in Midtown Manhattan late at night. After an exchange, prosecutors stated that Mr. Glover stabbed Mr. Jolly twice in the chest with a steak knife. Glover went to work and then home. He was arrested the next day.

Judge Michele S. Rodney of State Supreme Court in Manhattan, said that the evidence against Mr. Glover was significant.

“A life is a life is a life,” The New York Times reports Justice Rodney said issuing the sentence, adding that the killing was not “somehow justified because the person is homeless.”

"I think the crux of this case is going to come down to: can a Black man be scared of another Black man?" said Glover's attorney Scott Celestin in December. "Is this self-defense? Would we even be discussing [this] if this was an Asian person? Would [they] have to justify 'I felt scared?' What they're trying to do is minimize Mr. Glover's fear. And make this a quasi-hate crime or something—as opposed to 'I felt scared.' Everyday we look in the paper, it's someone being pushed on the track, someone being hit with a brick, it's someone being cut.

"Surprisingly, Mr. Glover is very optimistic. All Mr. Glover wanted was an attorney who cared. All he wanted was an attorney who was going to listen, communicate with him, but also—fight and advocate."

"It's difficult for me, day-to-day, to get up every day and know that all of the resources of the criminal justice system are vast. And I have so little," he said in an interview with Rock The Bells last December. "I have only the people that care about me. Be that as it may, I still have confidence that if I remain strong and keep my faith, things will work out for me. It's just a matter of time."