Questlove has offered plenty of insight into what inspired his upcoming documentary about Sly Stone, the bandleader of the influential Sly and the Family Stone.

In a digital cover story for VIBE, The Roots drummer went long about how the project, titled SLY LIVES! (aka The Burden of Black Genius), came to be and explained how it’s just as much about Sly as it is about other artists, specifically Black ones.

“Before I started the film, I just started with small focus groups. I went to my moms like, ‘Alright, what do you think happened to Sly Stone?’ ‘Oh, man, he was such a genius. Then he started hanging with the wrong crowd and doing drugs,’” Quest said.

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