Questlove's 'Sly Lives! (aka the Burden of Black Genius)' asks the question "Is there a burden on Black Genius?" The film's ...

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

For decades, Sly had been one of music’s great cautionary tales. In the late 1960s and early ’70s, Sly and his band, the ...

The new documentary “Sly Lives, aka the Burden of Black Genius,” which focuses on the life and career of the brilliant but ...

Sly Stone is an almost mythical figure. But in his brilliant new documentary SLY LIVES! (aka The Burden of Black Genius), Oscar-winning director Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson does a phenomenal ...

Questlove: Our first cut was like 244 minutes ... “Sly Lives” is about Sly Stone, but it’s really about this burden of Black genius. The Dilla story is about a man who affected time ...

Questlove’s follow-up to ‘Summer of Soul’ is a darker film that explores the question through the famous frontman of Sly & the Family Stone “SLY LIVES! (a.k.a The Burden of Black Genius ...

At age 81, Sly Stone is having a long overdue and sorely ... Some of the most striking insights here come from Questlove’s longtime collaborator D’Angelo, an artist whose musical gifts ...

The documentary traces Sly Stone's career, from popular DJ in the San Francisco Bay Area to frontman for a groundbreaking ...

The alienation of success — particularly as it relates to Black artists — is one of the themes Questlove explores in his new ...

Sly Stone, founder, frontman and namesake of Sly ... troubles sadly dominated more headlines than his music — Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson’s “Sly Lives! (aka The Burden of Black Genius ...

In the documentary, Thompson also breaks down Sly Stone's influence on other artists, in part by illustrating how many people ...