Stone immaculate

Questlove questions the systems that destroyed a revolutionary star.

Grayson Haver Currin

Sly Lives! (AKA The Burden Of Black Genius) Dir: Ahmir ‘Questlove’ Thompson HULU/DISNEY+. ST LATE INTO Sly Lives!, Ahmir ‘Questlove’ Thompson’s thoughtful documentary about the explosive brilliance of Sly Stone and the band he built, the drummer and filmmaker poses a provocative question to his assembled celebrities: “Is there a burden on black genius?” Nearly two hours earlier, the film begins with a fruitless quest to define that term before implicitly offering Stone as one possible answer: a charismatic multi-instrumental wonder who channelled the fractures and possibilities of the late ’60s into anthems that recombined most everything. D’Angelo – who emerges as a kind of one-man Greek chorus, so crucial for Sly Lives! – is the first to answer: “You do have to do it for everyone, and everybody else’s…

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