While screening the documentary “Sly Lives!,” producer Joseph Patel told Variety’s senior entertainment writer Angelique Jackson that the filmmakers were not sure if their subject, Sly Stone, would ...
For Joseph Patel, his Emmy-nominated Hulu documentary Sly Lives! (aka The Burden of Black Genius) wasn’t just another music story — it was a chance to contextualize a towering yet often misunderstood ...
Sly Stone passed away on June 9, 2025. “I didn’t realize how important it was to tell his story while he was still alive,” Patel says. At Stone’s private funeral, Patel learned from the musician’s ...