A founding member of the legendary hip-hop group Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five was charged on Wednesday in the stabbing death of a homeless man in New York City, the police said.

The police said that Nathaniel Glover, 57, known as Kidd Creole in the rap group, got into an argument around 11:50 p.m. on Tuesday with a 55-year-old man in Midtown Manhattan and then repeatedly stabbed him in the torso. The man was taken to Bellevue Hospital, where he was pronounced dead.

Detectives in the New York Police Department spotted Mr. Glover on surveillance cameras near the scene and arrested him on Wednesday night. Mr. Glover, who lives in the Bronx, was charged with second-degree murder, which carries a maximum sentence of life in prison.