Lionel Hahn/ Questlove defends the “audacity” Maria Shriver showed — in an old interview that’s central to his film — by trying to get Sly Stone to acknowledge he “blew it” in letting drugs derail his ...

Questlove directs Sly Lives! (aka The Burden of Black Genius), a doc about Sly Stone that finds wider import in what it meant when he became a kind of Black Elvis.

(aka The Burden of Black Genius). The film focuses on Sly Stone, a funk musician who headed up Sly & the Family Stone in the 1960s and 1970s. The group’s hits, including “Everyday People,” “Dance to ...

Sly Stone and feel-good funk music seemingly go hand in hand, but there’s a darker message hiding behind his upbeat hits from the 1970s and ‘80s that music historian and famed Roots founder ...

Funk music has been around since the 1960s, developing out of gospel, R&B and soul, with a distinct emphasis on "syncopated ...

"This is a movie about Sly Stone," he tells UCR, "but it's also about the burden that comes with success for Black artists in America." 50 Years Ago: Sly and Family Stone Splinter on 'Family ...

Ostensibly it covers the career of Sly Stone, the prodigious musician who, during the late '60s and '70s, generated some of ...

(aka The Burden of Black Genius) examines the life and legacy of Sly & The Family Stone, the groundbreaking band led by the charismatic and enigmatic Sly Stone. The film captures the bandâ s ...

(aka The Burden of Black Genius), Questlove delves into the genius and torments of Sly Stone — and uses that story as window into many other artists’ lives, including interviewees D’Angelo ...

"This is a movie about Sly Stone," he tells UCR, "but it's also about the burden that comes with success for Black artists in America." Producers of 'Sly Lives!' say their film is “an empathetic ...