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 ...

In this Slate Plus episode, Anna talks about the trailblazing psychedelic funk band Sly and the Family Stone with Joseph ... Webby and 2021 Ambie for best interview show.

Sly Stone's daughter Phunne recalls imitating her dad using chalk instead of cocaine as a child in the new documentary Sly Lives! (aka the Burden of Black Genius), now streaming on Hulu.

For decades, Sly had been one of music’s great cautionary tales. In the late 1960s and early ’70s, Sly and his band, the Family Stone, effectively ruled over American popular music, but by the middle ...

Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson Elvis at last month’s Sundance Film Festival to share what Black genius means to him… and to tease his next project(!).

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

The film focuses on Sly Stone, a funk musician who headed up Sly & the Family ... To me, that’s the dream.” In a new interview, Questlove reveals why Drake vs. Kendrick was so triggering, how he ...

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

Without Sly & the Family Stone, there would be no Prince and the ... He presents this theory to his interview subjects. “For Black artists in America, success can be more frightening than ...

Using archival clips, the film charts Sly Stone's rise from a Bay Area DJ to wild years with his band, the Family Stone. It illustrates Stone navigating fame before spiraling into drug addiction. The ...

director Questlove thought it wouldn't be "empathetic" to show Stone on camera Sly Stone wasn’t interviewed ... it wouldn’t be “empathetic” to interview the 81-year-old Rock and Roll ...

Phunne, whom Stone shared with Sly and the Family Stone cofounder and trumpet player Cynthia Robinson, says in an on-camera interview that Stone, 81, was not the most present father, even though ...