Funk legend Sly Stone has been living out of a white van in Los Angeles following a long downward spiral of drug abuse and financial mismanagement. Stone parks his van on a residential street in Crenshaw, a rough neighborhood in the city that is best known as the setting for Boyz N the Hood. A retired couple in the area provide the singer with food and a restroom, and their son serves as his assistant and driver. Despite his circumstances, Stone still works on music and records new material on a laptop computer. He recently released his first album in two decades, I’m Back – Friends & Family.
