The Grammy Award–winning bandleader for The Roots spoke with Fresh Air's Terry Gross about his film on the funk musician who led Sly & the Family Stone in the 1960s and '70s.

Boom laka laka laka! Boom laka laka laka!” It’s hard to believe that there was a time when such an utterance was unknown to ...

The film focuses on Sly Stone, a funk musician who headed up Sly & the Family Stone in the 1960s and ... because he wanted fans to know that the musical trailblazer has been clean for close ...

But it’s one of the headier themes of the movie, explored in comments by Vernon Reid and André 3000 and D’Angelo and Nile Rogers, that Sly, having changed an art form by inventing what became ...