Kool & The Gang co-founder Ronald "Khalis" Bell, RIP

Ronald “Khalis” Bell, co-founder of legendary funk-soul band Kool & The Gang and co-writer of classic jams "Ladies’ Night,” “Jungle Boogie” and “Celebration," has died. He was 68. From Rolling Stone:

In 1964, Bell and his teenage brother Robert “Kool” Bell, unable to afford drums, would collect old paint cans in their Youngstown, Ohio neighborhood and us…