He says his new Sly Stone documentary, 'SLY LIVES! (aka The Burden of Black Genius)', is the closest he could get to “a press ...

Sly Lives! (aka The Burden of Black Genius)” examines the influential Sly and the Family Stone front man. It also probes a ...

In SLY LIVES!, Questlove documents the genius of a funk trailblazer — and the pressure Sly felt as a Black artist. "Sly will ...

Clip for 'Sly Lives! (aka the Burden of Black Genius)' starring André Benjamin, Chaka Khan, George Clinton, Nile Rodgers, ...

“Sly Lives! (aka The Burden of Black Genius)” is a dazzling and definitive funk-pop documentary. It’s the second “jawn” directed by Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson, and he has leveled up from his first, ...

Questlove rounded up musical talent to share praises on Sly Stone in the new documentary Sly Lives! (aka The Burden of Black Genius).

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WTVF) — February is Black History Month and the National Museum of African American Music has an invitation to share. It's called Sly Lives: The Burden of a Black Genius and tells ...

In the debut of his new music documentary, Sly Lives (aka The Burden of Black Genius), director and musician Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson unveiled the famed life, and struggles of one of Black ...

And he did. Dramatically. That’s what the subtitle of the movie (“The Burden of Black Genius”) is about. Sly, on a basic level, destroyed his success with drugs, becoming a wastrel cocaine ...