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

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,

"His eyes reveal a precociousness and a lucidity that's there, but his motor function doesn't exist," Joseph Patel said of Family Stone legend

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 interview Sly Stone on camera.

The new documentary “Sly Lives, aka the Burden of Black Genius,” which focuses on the life and career of the brilliant but troubled musician Sly Stone and his group Sly and the Family Stone, is both a conventional documentary and an extremely unconventional one.

At long last, Questlove’s highly-anticipated documentary SLY LIVES! (aka the Burden of Black Genius) has been released. The Academy Award-winning

What is Black genius?” It’s a slightly sideways question that results in some blank looks, but the filmmaker’s point is this: The bar for Black artists is so high that only a genius can clear it. What’s more,