Music Is the Message

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{{Infobox album

| name = Music Is the Message

| type = Album

| artist = Kool & the Gang

| cover = Music Is The Message1972.jpg

| alt =

| released = July 1972

| recorded = 1971–1972

| venue =

| studio =

| genre =

• Funk
• soul
• R&B

| length = 34:13

| label = De-Lite{{Cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vBVjDwAAQBAJ&pg=RA6-PA2022|title=Goldmine Record Album Price Guide|first=Martin|last=Popoff|date=September 8, 2009|publisher=Penguin|via=Google Books}}

| producer = Kool & the Gang

| prev_title = Live at PJ's

| prev_year = 1971

| next_title = Good Times

| next_year = 1972

}}

{{Music ratings

| rev1 = AllMusic

| rev1Score = {{Rating|3|5}}{{AllMusic|class=album|id=r42560|label="Kool & the Gang: Music is the Message" |first=John |last=Bush |accessdate=27 October 2011}}

|rev2 = The Encyclopedia of Popular Music

|rev2score = {{rating|2|5}}{{cite book |last1=Larkin |first1=Colin |title=The Encyclopedia of Popular Music |date=2006 |publisher=MUZE |volume=5 |page=8}}

|rev3 = (The New) Rolling Stone Album Guide

|rev3score = {{rating|3.5|5}}{{cite book |title=(The New) Rolling Stone Album Guide |date=2004 |publisher=Simon & Schuster |page=464}}

}}

Music Is the Message is the second studio album, and the fourth overall album, by the funk band Kool & the Gang. It was released in 1972.{{Cite web|url=https://www.npr.org/2020/09/10/911454520/ronald-bell-co-founder-songwriter-and-producer-of-kool-the-gang-dead-at-68|title=Ronald Bell, Co-Founder, Songwriter And Producer Of Kool & The Gang, Dead At 68|website=NPR.org}}{{Cite magazine|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-lists/kool-the-gang-our-life-in-15-songs-164270/|title=Kool & the Gang: Our Life in 15 Songs|first1=Jason|last1=Newman|magazine=Rolling Stone|date=June 29, 2015}}

The album peaked at No. 25 on the Billboard Soul LPs chart.{{Cite magazine|url=https://www.billboard.com/artist/kool-the-gang/chart-history/blp/|title=Kool & the Gang|magazine=Billboard}}