It was 1978, and nearly a decade into their recording career, Kool & the Gang - the once-dominant jazz and funk group whose ...

EXCLUSIVE: AllHipHop had a chance to not only meet Kool & the Gang's namesake, Robert "Kool" Bell, and fellow member J.T.

George "Funky" Brown, was a founding member of Kool & The Gang who died in 2023. Now, Brown is going into the Rock Hall and ...

“Kool and the Gang have gone bland,” the Detroit Free Press wrote in one typical piece on 1978’s Everybody’s Dancin’. “They’ve joined the disco lemmings … The edge has gone.” Robert “Kool” Bell, the ...

Kool & the Gang. Their 1969 debut LP fused jazz, soul, and funk into an unexpected hit, and by the mid-1970s, songs like “Funky Stuff,” “Hollywood Swinging,” “Jungle Boogie,” and “Sp ...

Sammy Hagar was on hand to induct the band Foreigner. Kelly Clarkson joined in for a performance of the band’s 1984 hit “ I ...

Kool & the Gang have provided the soundtrack to many a soirée — and sporting event — with “Celebration,” their 1980 party ...

The Kool and the Gang co-founder - who died in November 2023 ... “Dad always said, ‘Good songs tell a story.’ Heartache, pain, loss, joy, excitement, happiness—Dad experienced it all ...

The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame class included Mary J. Blige, Foreigner, the late Jimmy Buffett and A Tribe Called Quest, among ...

Chappelle sang and and told jokes while Mary J. Blige rapped at the bash that brought out guests including Common and ...

Few artists have been sampled by hip-hop producers more than Kool & the Gang. George “Funky” Brown’s drums have formed the backdrop to countless rap classics, while the group’s horn section has, for ...