Questlove's Sly Stone documentary confronts the 'burden of Black genius' In SLY LIVES!, Questlove documents the genius of a funk trailblazer — and the pressure Sly felt as a Black artist."Sly ...

A snippet of music history will hit the shelves on July 18 with the new Sly & The Family Stone album The First Family: Live ...

The alienation of success — particularly as it relates to Black artists — is one of the themes Questlove explores in his new documentary, SLY LIVES! (aka The Burden of Black Genius). The film focuses ...

“Sly Lives” is about Sly Stone, but it’s really about this burden of Black genius. The Dilla story is about a man who affected time — both in his music and in the life he lived.

Sly Lives! (AKA The Burden of Black Genius) has two things going on, the first being a celebration of a genius singer-songwriter-producer who never really made it into the pantheon of greats ...

Editor’s note: This interview was conducted before Sly Stone‘s death at age 82. Read Questlove ‘s tribute to Stone here . In the first five minutes of Sly Lives!

As pointed out in endless histories of rock and roll, hip-hop, pop, and country (including Questlove’s Sly Stone documentary Sly Lives! [aka The Burden of Black Genius]), when Stone started ...

Sly Stone, funk pioneer and frontman of Sly and the Family Stone, ... Sly Lives! (aka the Burden of Black Genius), from Oscar-winning director Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson.

Musician and Oscar-winning director Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson on his new film for Hulu, “SLY LIVES! (aka The Burden of Black Genius),” which details the rise and fall of the enigmatic Sly Stone.

Stone had a capacity for summing up the zeitgeist of an America in social transition, from collective joy to racial harmony, and from the search for transcendence to the broken idealism in which the ...

Funk pioneer Sly Stone, who revolutionized music with integrated band Sly and the Family Stone, died Monday at 82 from COPD.

For Questlove’s second documentary, SLY LIVES!(aka The Burden of Black Genius), it makes perfect sense that he focuses primarily on Sly Stone, considering how lovingly he was presented in that ...