‘JT thinks he’s Kool and the Gang’ — which was insane. It started eating away at the fabric of the group.” Brown, who generally spoke highly of Taylor in his 2023 memoir, nonetheless ...

Thirty years after first being eligible for the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, funk gods Kool & the Gang were finally inducted ... before vocalist James “JT” Taylor appeared for their 1981 smash ...

"They finally recognized us," said Robert "Kool" Bell about Kool & the Gang's Rock & Roll Hall of ... At least James “J.T.” Taylor — who in 1979 became the lead singer on hits such as ...

Kool & the Gang had 12 Top 10 hits on the Billboard ... A pivotal moment came when the group hired James “JT” Taylor as lead singer in 1979, fueling most of their ‘80s hits.

Chuck D inducted Kool & the Gang, saying "This is a long ... co-founder and last original member — and longtime singer James "JT" Taylor. Confetti shot into the arena and Taylor asked the ...

Warwick, who lives in South Orange, was one of two New Jersey inductees honored at this year’s ceremony — the other was Jersey City’s Kool & the Gang ... actor Teyana Taylor, who is playing ...

Reviews at the time were unsparingly harsh. "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 ...

Everyone in the band knew there was a problem, even if they didn’t know exactly how to fix it. It was 1978, and nearly a decade into their recording career, Kool & the Gang — the once-dominant ...