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If you love music and/or documentaries, I will highly - highly recommend that you run (do not walk) to your Hulu-capable streaming device and watch Sly Lives! (AKA The Burden of Black Genius). I've known about Sly and The Family Stone for most of my life, and have heard their music here and there, but I wasn't really around or aware enough to grok the sheer impact of this particular band on all the popular music that followed. I had no idea about the magnitude of what this man and his band accomplished and how they literally changed the world and the music that we hear today. Sly and The Family Stone is to music what Star Wars and The Matrix are to filmmaking.

Influencing everyone from Prince and Janet Jackson to LL Cool J, the Beastie Boys, and Afrikaa Bambataa, there are so many songs or groups that depend on Sly Stone's music to be what they are, whether it be from the examples of the band or samples of their music.

Not to mention that this is "A Questlove Jawn" and I will pretty much watch anything produced by Questlove because the man seems to be good at everything he chooses to do, from drumming to filmmaking. Questlove treats Sly Lives! with the care, reverence, concern, candor, and authenticity that it deserves, and it makes for a fascinating and powerful documentary.

Don't watch it just because it's #BlackHistoryMonth or because it's about #MusicHistory. Watch it because it's just that good!