Live at the Sex Machine

{{Infobox album

| name = Live at the Sex Machine

| type = live

| artist = Kool and the Gang

| cover = Live at the Sex Machine1971.jpg

| alt =

| released = February 1971

| recorded = May 1970

| venue =

| studio =

| 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

}}

{{Music ratings

| rev1 = AllMusic

| rev1Score = {{Rating|4|5}}{{AllMusic|class=album|id=r42561|label="Kool & the Gang: Live at the Sex Machine" |first=Steve |last=Kurutz |accessdate=27 October 2011}}

| rev2 = Los Angeles Times

| rev2score = {{Rating|4|4}}{{cite web|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1996-12-27-ca-12831-story.html|title=‘Go Girl!’: Ballads of Enlightened Love|author=Hodari Coker, Cheo |date=December 27, 1996|publisher=Los Angeles Times|accessdate=2 August 2023}}

|rev3 = The Virgin Encyclopedia of R&B and Soul

|rev3score = {{rating|2|5}}{{cite book |last1=Larkin |first1=Colin |title=The Virgin Encyclopedia of R&B and Soul |date=1998 |publisher=Virgin Books |page=195}}

}}

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.