SLY LIVES! (aka The Burden of Black Genius) (2025) on Netflix
R20251h 52mDocumentaryMusic
Sly Stone led Sly and the Family Stone, and the documentary traces the band's career and legacy. It also looks at the burden success places on Black artists in America.
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- Netflix4.2/5
- IMDb7.6/101,688 votes
- Rotten Tomatoes93%
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Plot summary
The band Sly and the Family Stone was led by Sly Stone, and he is among the people who appear in the film. It examines the group's career, its reign and its legacy, and sets that story beside the burden that success places on Black artists in America, the burden named in the alternate title, The Burden of Black Genius. Some of the interviews used in the film come from Small Talk About Sly and from On the Sly: In Search of the Family Stone.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about SLY LIVES! (aka The Burden of Black Genius) (2025)
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- While making Sly Lives!, director Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson used interview material from two earlier Sly Stone documentaries: Greg Zola's Small Talk About Sly and Michael Rubinstone's On the Sly: In Search of the Family Stone.
