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

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

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

The film focuses on Sly Stone, a funk musician who headed up Sly & the Family ... Sly had released this really intelligent debut album called A Whole New Thing, which is probably my favorite album of ...

Sly and the Family Stone’s mix of Black and white musicians and women and ... When “There’s A Riot Goin’ On” comes out in 1971, the album echoes the disillusionment with ’60s idealism felt by many, as ...

As Andre 3000 notes in the clip (via Billboard), the cover of the rap duo’s 2000 album was influenced by Sly and the Family Stone’s There’s a Riot Goin’ On art. “To wrap that flag around ...

At age 81, Sly Stone is having a long overdue and sorely ... And then he mostly disappeared—his last studio album of original material was released in 1982, and gradually his well-being and ...

director Questlove thought it wouldn't be "empathetic" to show Stone on camera Sly Stone wasn’t interviewed ... "Family Affair" and the landmark 1971 album There's a Riot Goin' On.

The film focuses on Sly Stone, a funk musician who headed up Sly & the Family ... Kendrick was so triggering, how he regained his passion for hip-hop and what to expect from the new Roots album. What ...

Stone, who published an unsentimental memoir in 2023, doesn’t participate in “Sly Lives ... Their debut, the first of four self-titled albums the band released between 1969 and 1971 ...