In his new documentary Sly Lives! (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 ...

SLY LIVES! (AKA THE BURDEN OF BLACK GENIUS) - SLY LIVES! (aka The Burden of Black Genius) examines the life and legacy of Sly & The Family Stone, the groundbreaking band led by the charismatic ...

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’s latest film shifts the focus entirely to Sly. In Sly Lives! (aka The Burden of Black Genius), the filmmaker uses extensive interviews and archival footage to begin to unravel one of ...

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.

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

By Tracey Thorn The other night Ben and I watched the new Sly Stone documentary, Sly Lives! (AKA The Burden of Black Genius). Directed by Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson, it’s an exploration and ...

This brisk 80-minute documentary is a wall-to-wall commemoration of a genre by the people who love it the most.

‘Sly & The Family Stone,’ seen here in 1968 are the subject of a documentary directed by Questlove ... explore Mansfield’s public and private lives, is Hargitay’s “search for the ...

An Oscar-winning producer and director of the documentary “Summer of Soul” and DJ, Questlove’s career and new documentary “Sly Lives! (aka The Burden of Black Genius)” on Hulu reveals he appreciates ...

Greetings! It’s your friend and selector, Marlon, again. Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson’s joyous, crisply edited and well observed documentary about Sly Stone dropped in February on Hulu and Disney+. It ...

On the day of our conversation, the Sly Stone documentary, Sly Lives! (aka the Burden of Black ... He’s one of those minds, like Questlove, just an encyclopedia. House music is like cycling ...