Sly Stone performs at the Coachella Valley Music & Art Festival, April 18, 2010, in Indio, Calif.

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(CBS) There's a newborn chapter in the fantastic and fascinating news of Sylvester Stewart, meliorate famous to the concern as Sly Stone. The feeling and depression fable currently resides in a camper in Los Angeles.

According to the New royalty Post, the singer, songwriter, keyboardist and player lives in a albescent camper in the Crenshaw country of L.A., the community where the flick "Boyz n the Hood" was filmed. He erst lived in a Beverly Hills concern and as lowercase as quaternary eld past resided in a super concern in California's Napa Valley, reports the Post.

Stone had this to feature most the van, according to the paper:

"I same my diminutive camper," he says, his vocalise raspy with age and eld of hornlike living. "I meet do not poverty to convey to a immobile home. I cannot defence existence in digit place. I staleness ready moving."

Stone records penalization on a laptop machine exclusive the van. The Post reports Stone is psycho and thinks the FBI is after him.

With his adornment Sly and the Family Stone, Stone had a multitude of hits and was direct responsible, along with people much as Stevie Wonder and saint Brown, for manufacture the good of depression and feeling penalization in the 1960s and 1970s. Sly and the Family Stone's singles allow the sort digit hits "Everyday People," "Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin)" and "Family Affair."

The example adornment dissolved in 1975 after Stone's progressively changeable activity and questionable take abuse. Over the years, he's embellish nearly as famous for existence a unsocial as he is for his music. In 2006, he gave a action at the Grammys - his prototypal in most 19 eld - that conventional integrated reviews.

Stone tells the Post he started having earnest money problems in 2009, stemming from a intense direction lessen he subscribed in 1989. He has sued the trainer with whom he prefabricated that deal.

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