Sly Stone began recording "There's a Riot Goin' On" in late 1970 as a
follow-up to the commercially successful "Stand!" In this brisk,
inventive book, Miles Marshall Lewis chronicle Sly's descent into a haze
of drug addiction and delirium as he rejects the successful formula -
"Dance to the Medley, dance to the shmedley" - and creates one of the
most powerful and haunting albums to inspire the hiphop movement.
follow-up to the commercially successful "Stand!" In this brisk,
inventive book, Miles Marshall Lewis chronicle Sly's descent into a haze
of drug addiction and delirium as he rejects the successful formula -
"Dance to the Medley, dance to the shmedley" - and creates one of the
most powerful and haunting albums to inspire the hiphop movement.
