| Live at the Sex Machine | |
| Type: | live |
| Artist: | Kool and the Gang |
| Cover: | Live at the Sex Machine1971.jpg |
| Released: | February 1971 |
| Recorded: | May 1970 |
| Genre: | Funk |
| Length: | 48:26 |
| Label: | De-Lite |
| Producer: | Gene Redd |
| Prev Title: | Kool and the Gang |
| Prev Year: | 1969 |
| Next Title: | Live at PJ's |
| Next Year: | 1971 |
Live at the Sex Machine is the first live album released by the funk band Kool and the Gang. The album was released in 1971, and reached No. 6 on the Billboard R&B Albums chart. Not only was it a Top 10 album, it stayed on the chart for 33 weeks; an impressive time span compared to most albums of the era. Although the band's huge success would not come until a few albums later, this release was popular with the R&B market. Like most of their early catalog, it was sampled by several artists during hip-hop's "Golden Era" of the 1980s and early 1990s. The track "Funky Man" was sampled in "Smack My Bitch Up" by the Prodigy.