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Feb. 13, 2025 – In the new documentary Sly Lives! (aka the Burden of Black Genius), which hits Hulu on Feb. 13, the legendary musician’s daughter Phunne Stone recalls a moment from her childhood in which she once snorted chalk in an attempt to mimic her dad. “I think that my dad is really actually shy, and I think drugs helped him be fearless,” she says. “My mom loved him more than any man. She never dated another man after my dad. But he wasn’t always around when I lived with my mom.” Phunne was often the only child around, and she says she lived “in an adult world, to where I thought I was grown.”
One day, while playing house with friends, Stone stopped by, leaving behind a collection of razor blades that he’d used to cut lines of cocaine.
“I went and grabbed me one and my box of chalk. And I said, ‘We gon’ do what the grown folks do.’ So I got my chalk and I chopped up about 37 lines of chalk out there and got the Monopoly money, rolled it up. ‘OK!’” Phunne recalls. “We were out there [snorts] about 19 lines. We sneezing…
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