Yea I heard about this. What could make a man stab another man to death? over a couple of words... just sad.
Kid Creole had two jobs at the time of his arrest -- security guard and something else, maybe stock boy. ...So he was probably living angry and "close to the edge", having fallen so low after the fame... Dude probably got cheated out of a lot of $$ in the shady record industry of the time too...
The pioneers of rap and hip-hop music never got the big money just like the Black pioneers of rock,metal,techno, etc.