To follow up his Oscar-winning Summer of Soul, Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson turned his focus on one of the landmark acts featured in that lauded documentary, Sly and the Family Stone. The result, Hulu's ...

“Sly Lives! (aka The Burden of Black Genius)” road tests a theory that its director, Ahmir Questlove Thompson, has had for a while, and that’s articulated in the Hulu documentary by Dream Hampton: ...

For Joseph Patel, his Emmy-nominated Hulu documentary Sly Lives! (aka The Burden of Black Genius) wasn’t just another music story — it was a chance to contextualize a towering yet often misunderstood ...

“Before I started the film, I just started with small focus groups. I went to my moms like, ‘Alright, what do you think happened to Sly Stone?’ ‘Oh, man, he was such a genius. Then he started hanging ...

When Sly Stone died in June at the age of 82, one of those mourning him at his funeral was in a unique position to appreciate the full extent of his musical gifts, as a brilliant talent himself – the ...

Musician and Oscar-winning director Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson on his new film for Hulu, “SLY LIVES! (aka The Burden of Black Genius),” which details the rise and fall of the enigmatic Sly Stone.

One word has the tendency to make artists myths, and then measuring them with the myth as their rod, which they fail to pass.

A snippet of music history will hit the shelves on July 18 with the new Sly & The Family Stone album The First Family: Live At Winchester Cathedral 1967. Featured in Questlove’s documentary Sly Lives!

Director Questlove and producer Joseph Patel tell IndieWire about creating a balance between music nerdom and the life of Sly Stone in their documentary. So “Sly Lives!” is a few different things at ...