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I've spent a decade on the continent working in the African Film-Television-Music and Entertainment Industries. Africa is the FUTURE! Instagram: iamsuede Twitter: iamsuede

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#SuedeDiary November 18, 2017. (Pictured #JohnStewart @blackthought) Backstage The Theatre At Madison Square Garden. @HBO #NightOfTooManyStars @TheRoots #music #comedy #purpose #autism #newyork #philly #photography #digital #edit #produce #direct #content #shortform #media #film @leica_camera 🔴🎥 @iamsuede

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#SuedeDiary Nov 18, 2017 (Pictured @chrisrock and @questlove) The Theatre At Madison Square Garden Backstage @HBO #NightOfTooManyStars Shot with @leica_camera #dlux109 #totalblackouttour #theroots #music #comedy #blackexcellence #brooklyn #philly #rockstars #black #digital #film #photography #broll 🔴🎥 @iamsuede (at Madison Square Theatre)

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Building A Bridge To Africa #Repost @traceusa ・・・ #STAYWOKE We are in the midst of a musical revolution that most of America is oblivious to. Join the Afrobeats Revolution! Africa Your Time Is Now! America, Sign up for #TracePlay and become aware of artists who are reshaping the music industry. Artists like: @vanessamdee @wizkidayo @akaworldwide @casspernyovest @nhlanhla_nciza tap into Pan-African touring and have millions of followers who love their music! Don’t miss this opportunity. Watch this important documentary brought to you by @traceafrica_ with appearances by: @DAFRESHMAN @Blitztheambassador @mokobe113 @niska_officiel @jidenna @2niteflavour @Yemialade @eddykenzo. If you don’t know, you better ask somebody. Africa your time is now. America, join the revolution! REPOST IF YOU LOVE AFRICA @questlove @blackthought @sgventures @stevestoute @obiasika @kodaklens @unclerush @diddy @50cent (Link In Bio) #traceusa #trace #traceplay #nigeria #ghana #southafrica #uganda #gabon #tanzania #southafrica

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#SuedeDiary SOMNAMBULISM Can you remember how you got to where you are right now? Ever have a lucid moment and realize that you have no idea how you got here? Memory a bit blurry lately? Ears ringing? Migraines? Nose bleeds? That feeling in your gut that you've been here before and you know what's going to happen next? You may have the gift. I recently discovered teleportation. It started off as what I thought was insomnia. That eventually gave way to a kind of sleepwalking. I only realized it because sometimes I'd "wake up" in weird places On a plane At my desk at home On The Train in New York Eating at The movies in Lagos Drinking On a beach in Australia During a concert In LA Walking in Osaka traffic. With no idea about how I got there, how long I' d been there. The only thing that would accompany the ringing in my ears is the sense of, "I'm not even supposed to be here and “I think I'm being followed." #WritersWrite #somnombulist #teleport #timetravel #luciddreaming #lucid #matrix #experimental #photo #photography #ideas #creative #writerswrite #Somnambulism (at Bullet Train)

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#SuedeDiary In the city that never sleeps the well rested is king. #nyc #beastcoast #thecity #newyork #views #insomnia #werkwerkwerkwerkwerkwerk #todaysoffice #commuter #commute #bicoastal #dmv #digital #media #mirage #perception #power #articulate #reason #health #wealth #fuckcancer (at Madison Square Park)

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#SuedeDiary Tourè is a genius. An American Writer, Music Journalist, TV Host, Tennis player and avid chatter. The sheer number of conversations he’s had for the sake of sharing our stories and pushing the culture is dizzying. His gift of gab serves him well. Remember that R Kelly sit down!??! The work Tourè puts in is honest and polarizing. The brother is consistently on the side of blackness, even when blackness isn’t always there for him. Thanks to @itsallmind, I caught up with him on the eve of his new podcast and witnessed his magic first hand. Soon you can too! Look out for @toureshow mid November whereever fine podcasts are sold! It’s definitely for the culture. #fortheculture #toureshow #podcast #genius #interviews #africanamerican #writer #author #journalist #musicwriting (at Brooklyn, New York)

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#SuedeDiary Once upon a time I️ lived in Fort Greene. Not the gentrified version. Pre 9-11 BKNY Then it was the Mecca of Blackness. You’d see people like Spike Lee, Mos Def, Talib Kweli, Biggie and Jay Z on the regular. It was all love n Hip Hop, poetry sessions, dreads blunts and peace gods. As a young creative, it was inspiring. I️ saw an industry I️ wanted to be a part of, but hadn’t yet cracked. One day I️ returned home from my job as a photo assistant, just in time to hear on the radio (I️ didn’t own a tv) that the Grammy’s were happening that night at Madison Square Garden. I️ knew I️ had to be there. I️ got dressed in my finest vintage leather pea coat, big collar Gucci lace shirt, skinny black jeans, motorcycle boots, picked out my fro and hopped the train to the city. No ticket to the show. Only ambition and Blue Nile. I️ scoped out the celebrity entrance on 33rd and talked my way in. It was surprisingly easy! Once inside I️ was immediately approached by a walkie-talkie toting headsetted blonde who instructed me to follow her. Thought the jig was up! But she escorted me INTO the auditorium and sat me down NEXT to Lenny Kravitz. Gobsmacked! After a few award presentations and a performance by The Fuggees, the same young woman fetched me from my seat and rushed me backstage. We passed Quincy Jones, Stevie Wonder, Toni Braxton, and a whole Wu-Tang clan of stardom. I️ couldn’t believe it. I️ was backstage at The Grammy’s. But my world was about to come crashing down. The headsetted blonde returned and briskly escorted me into the wings and stood me next to Toni Braxton who greeted me with a hug and kiss on the cheek. The Headsetted blonde said into my ear, “I’m sure I️ don’t have to prep you for what’s about to happen and you’ve done this numerous times, but just read the TelePrompTer. You’re presenting the award for best rap album with Toni Braxton.” I️ stepped back and said, “I’m sorry but who do you think I️ am?!!?” She deadpanned, “You’re Maxwell.” I️ shook my head no and she looked at me with blue eyes the size of dinner plates before rushing off into the crowd whisper screaming into her walkie, “Does anyone have eyes on Fucking Maxwell!??!” (at Bedford-Stuyvesant)

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#SuedeDiary October 29, 2017. (Pictured Dave Chappelle backstage @oakparamount #TotalBlackOutTour) Iron Sharpens Iron. Dave Chappelle and Chris Rock stunned audiences with a tag team comedy volley. It was epic. #DaveChappelle #Flash #DMV #RED #Photography #leica #leicadlux109 #comedy #netflix #oakland #broll (at Paramount Theatre of the Arts)

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#SuedeDiary October 29, 2017. (Pictured @realmoamer backstage @oakparamount #TotalBlackoutTour) His comedic style is a fantastic amalgamation of culture, accents and experiences from his Palestinian/English/American upbringing. Mo’s comedy brings us together by reflecting the commonalities of our seemingly disparate lives. #moamer #comedy #photography #edit #backstage #digital #film #produce #direct #broll (at Paramount Theatre of the Arts)

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#SuedeDiary October 29, 2017. (Pictured @sherrodsmall backstage @oakparamount #totalblackouttour) Small (no s) opened the #totalblackouttour in Oakland and offers an hilarious, honest and unfiltered perspective that can be found on his Race Wars Podcast. #sherrodsmall #comedy #racewar #podcast #brooklyn #smart #funny #foxnews (at Paramount Theatre of the Arts)

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#SuedeDiary October 29, 2017 (Pictured @hannibalburess) #BRoll #GREENROOM #pregame #prep #photography #edit #direct #produce #digital #content #leica (at Paramount Theatre of the Arts)

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#SuedeDiary October 29, 2017 (Pictured @hannibalburess backstage @oakparamount) Hannibal Buress has opened for @ChrisRock on a number of dates. His comedy is edgy, awkward and pushes the expected boundaries of what defines contemporary comedy. The appeal is diverse, multifaceted and unexpected-making him one to watch. Google him; two n’s, one r. #TotalBlackOutTour #comedy #HannibalBuress #MyNameIsHannibal #animalfurnace #photography #digital #edit #leica (at Paramount Theatre of the Arts)

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#SuedeDiary October 29, 2017 Oakland’s Paramount Theatre Movie Palace opened in 1931. Outside and in, the Paramount radiates dream-world escapism. Its 58-foot-high (18 m) grand lobby, with side walls made of alternating vertical bands of warm green neon light panels and muted red piers, and with both ends and ceiling decorated with an almost luminescent grillwork, forms a regal introduction. Rare and costly materials are everywhere: hand-adzed quartered oak, Hungarian ash crotch, bird's-eye maple, Balinese rosewood, Malaysian teak, and Italian marble. The 3000 seat auditorium is unmatched for its refulgent splendor, with gilded galaxies of whorls and gold walls with sculpted motifs from the Bible and mythology. The majesty of this epic edifice is prevalent in this @chrisrock I image captured on the mainstage during soundcheck on opening night of his sold out #TotalBlackoutTour in Oakland. Nothing posed or coordinated, just a brief moment in time on a historic stage with one of our generation’s greatest comics. #TotalBlackoutTour #ChrisRock #Comedy #Architecture #Oakland #Brooklyn #leica #photography #SouthCarolina #NewYork #California #Comedy #King #Conductor #tambourine #netflix (at Paramount Theatre of the Arts)

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#SuedeDiary Artwork title Untitled (Bacchus 1st Version IV) Artist name Cy Twombly Date created 2004 Classification painting Medium acrylic paint and crayon on wood in artist's frame Dimensions 104 1/2 in. x 79 in. x 2 in. (265.43 cm x 200.66 cm x 5.08 cm) Credit The Doris and Donald Fisher Collection at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Twombly’s paired paintings, Bacchus Psilax and Bacchus Mainomenos (2004) show the winged Bacchus morphing into his identical twin, the raging mad god who unleashes a title of blood. Painted during the bloodiest years of the Iraq occupation, when the first and second Battles of Fallujah brought the heaviest urban fighting since the Vietnam War, the Bacchus series has been linked to the fury of Achilles’s twelve-day brutalization of Hector’s body, towed around the grave mount of Patroclus. Twombly’s work elsewhere refers to the destruction of Sumerian cultural heritage. One could say that any child could make a drawing like Twombly only in the sense that any fool with a hammer could fragment sculptures as Rodin did, or any house painter could spatter paint as well as Pollock. In none of these cases would it be true. In each case the art lies not so much in the finesse of the individual mark, but in the orchestration of a previously uncodified set of personal "rules" about where to act and where not, how far to go and when to stop, in such a way as the cumulative courtship of seeming chaos defines an original, hybrid kind of order, which in turn illuminates a complex sense of human experience not voiced or left marginal in previous art. (at SFMOMA San Francisco Museum of Modern Art)

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#SuedeDiary WestCoast Life. Up at 4AM to try catch a run/walk/workout and not hit the snooze button. 6AM at the desk to match the 9AM NYC start time. All Day Meetings/ Phoners/Production and Coffees in Nightmarish Traffic. Not to mention the late night gigs and early AM FaceTimes with clients in Europe and Africa. Kendrick and Dre tell me it’s all worth it for the weather, weed and women. I mean that’s the recipe right? Ask me when I’m dead. #westcoast #todaysoffice #iwritewhatilike #edit #production #photography #digital #film #inserts #sizzlereal #gametime (at The St. Regis San Francisco)

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Pretty Girls Love Trap Music @hairweavekiller @travisscott and @TheRoots on @fallontonight #4AM #Halloween #prettygirlslovetrapmusic (at 30 Rockefeller Plaza)

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#SuedeDiary An image of @TheRoots I captured backstage at @toyotamusicfactory @thepaviliontmf with my trusty DLux109 @leicacamerausa is now a part of their @Motown @recordingacademy Campaign for #ItAintFair History in the making man. #photography #onlythework #leicadlux109 #portrait #stayready #blackandwhite #music #entertainment #backstage #allaccess (at Toyota Music Factory)