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The beats are "dlrty-dirty" New Orleans, with lyrics to match, on Troubled the Water, the debut album from Blackkoldmadlna (aka Kim Rivers Roberts). Roberts' Ka trina footage was recently turned Into a film, Trouble the Water, which won a grand jury prize at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival. (And "Trouble the Water," In Dec. '08, was amongst 49 songs In the running for an Oscar In '09.)

Roberts' Is a deeply personal album about life as a black woman In New Orleans; she speaks gruff truth about the city's cycle of poverty and violence, as well as family issues and loved ones' drug addictions. The subject matter Is graphic and raw, just like New Orleans.

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