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 part of the 1970s,

Patel added that he and Questlove ultimately decided it didn't "feel right" to include Stone in his current state in Sly Lives! "‘Let's tell this story with a lot of empathy,'"

In a fascinating new documentary on Hulu, Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson turns the enduring myth of Sly Stone into a very human story.