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

Yet because “Sly Lives!” leaves intact the romance ... and grandkids — is a genuine accomplishment. Stone’s brand of Black genius produced tremendously influential, virtuosic ...

“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 — both in his music and in the life he lived. At one ...

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 ...

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 Burden of Black Genius” is what follows in a parenthetical ... we were invited to behold a more purely arresting portrait of Sly and the Family Stone, from 1969, by this same director ...

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 ...

Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson says that telling Sly Stone's story with empathy was a way to open a conversation about Black ...

(aka The Burden of Black Genius),” reunites him with collaborator Questlove to explore not just the meteoric rise of Sly Stone, but the weight of Black excellence itself. The film, now streaming ...