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Title: Kool & The Gang - In The Heart
Year/Genre/Sub-Genre/City: 1983, R&B, Funk / Post-Disco, Jersey City, New Jersey
Matrix #: DSR 8508
Condition: EX, cover has writing in sharpie on bottom right corner

Cultural Facts:

1. Media Narrative: By this point they had fully crossed from hard funk band to pop-radio force, and that success brought backlash from older fans who preferred the rougher early-70s lineup.

2. Family Ties: The group’s core was built around brothers Robert and Ronald Bell, making Kool & The Gang partly a family operation, not just a hired-band success story.

3. Personal Struggle: Ronald Bell spoke about growing up in poverty and around segregation-era pressure, experiences that shaped the ambition and discipline behind the group’s long climb.

12/28/23 ob