During a Q&A following a screening of the documentary 'SLY LIVES! (aka The Burden of Black Genius)', the producer explained why he and director Questlove decided it wouldn’t be “empathetic” to ...

Sly Stone's three children discuss their relationship with their father in the new documentary 'Sly Lives! (aka the Burden of Black Genius), which is now streaming on Hulu.

Sly and the Family Stone’s “Everyday People” debuts at No. 7 on Billboard’s R&B Digital Song Sales chart, thanks to renewed ...

Amir "Questlove" Thompson tells the story of Slyvester 'Sly Stone" Stewart in the documentary "Sly Lives! aka the Question of ...

Sly Stone’s life has been eventful, to say the least. From the highs of his groundbreaking records with The Family Stone to the lows of drug addiction and serious financial hardship, he’s been ...

In “Sly Lives!” and “Becoming Led Zeppelin,” the divergent expectations faced by White and Black musical artists become ...

“That’s not empathetic.” While Sly himself didn’t participate, three of Stone’s children — Novena Carmel, Sylvette Robinson and Sylvester Stewart Jr. — shared anecdotes about their fathe ...

Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson’s evolution from musician and DJ to podcaster and award-winning filmmaker has been remarkable. His latest film, “Sly Lives! (aka The Burden of Black Genius),” explores the l ...

Or so it seemed until Sly and the Family Stone, a San Francisco band with a mixed-race, mixed-gender lineup, arrived in the late 1960s. Blending rock, funk and soul to glorious effect, they scored ...

director Questlove thought it wouldn't be "empathetic" to show Stone on camera ... "We interviewed Sly for [the Oscar-winning documentary] Summer of Soul in 2020. And he had just gotten clean ...

Sly Stone wasn’t interviewed for his own documentary ... "We interviewed Sly for [the Oscar-winning documentary] Summer of Soul in 2020. And he had just gotten clean, and he just, he doesn ...