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Rolling Stone Music Now

Questlove on the Mysteries of Sly Stone and Much More

Rolling Stone Music Now

Rolling Stone | Cumulus Podcast Network

Music Commentary, Music, Music Interviews

41K Ratings

🗓️ 16 March 2025

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Questlove, director of the excellent new documentary Sly Lives! (aka The Burden of Black Genius), dissects the greatness of Sly Stone, while also going deep on D'Angelo, Michael Jackson, and his own life Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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I'm Brian Hyatt.

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This is Rolling Stone Music Now.

1:09.8

Today I'm really happy to welcome back to the show Questlove, who was already an acclaimed musician and author when he directed

1:11.9

the movie Summer of Soul back in 2021 and won a best documentary Oscar for it. Now he has a new

1:18.8

movie called Sly Lives, aka the Burden of Black Genius. It's available on Hulu right now to stream,

1:24.9

and I recommend that you do. The movie, of course, tells the story

1:28.0

of the troubled musical genius Sly Stone, but its scope is a lot broader than that, as the title

1:33.6

suggests. When people like Andre 3000 and DeAngel and Chaka Khan are interviewed for it, they're

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