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Questlove Reveals Why He Looked at André 3000, D’Angelo and Himself for His Sly Stone Doc When the Music Legend Wouldn’t Talk to Him
Questlove on Sundance documentary ‘Sly Lives!’ and the legacy of the Family Stone
But Questlove unexpectedly leans heavier on his title’s parenthetical addendum in order to illuminate some deeper truths about the challenges of stardom (especially for Black artists) that may have started with Stone, but which still persist today. In the service of this “cinematic intervention,” the filmmaker spoke at length with Family Stone members Cynthia Robinson, Jerry Martini and Larry Graham, collaborators and descendants like George Clinton, Nile Rodgers and Jimmy Jam, as well as Questlove’s own contemporaries D’Angelo and André 3000. “For a lot of us not being used to being vulnerable — especially the kind of society that we’re in right now, where your life is wide open for criticism and up for review — I found out in these two and a half years that this particular subject is probably the most frightening of all, revealing the hurt that’s underneath the facade of the smile,” he says.
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