Queen kold Madina

Song up for Academy Award - Variety

Kimberly's star power comes from the music she writes and sings, music that was almost lost in the storm. The moment in the aftermath when she finds it and raps about her feelings will knock you off your feet. At the Sundance Film Festival in January, when the film premiered, that moment got audiences standing and cheering. Never mind Katrina, Kimberly Roberts is the real force of nature.

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Kimberly's star power comes from the music she writes and sings, music that was almost lost in the storm. The moment in the aftermath when she finds it and raps about her feelings will knock you off your feet. At the Sundance Film Festival in January, when the film premiered, that moment got audiences standing and cheering. Never mind Katrina, Kimberly Roberts is the real force of nature.

Read more: http://www.rollingstone.com/movies/reviews/trouble-the-water-20080821#ixzz27PcTFVEF - Rolling Stone Magazine

Her name is Kimberly Rivers Roberts. Your never heard of her. Not yet. That's what Sundance is all about — finding new talent, such as Lance Hammer, the writer and director of Ballast Kimberly's star power comes from the music she writes and sings, music that was almost lost in the storm. The moment in the aftermath when she finds it and raps about her feelings will knock you off your feet. Here at Sundance, that moment gets audiences standing and cheering. Never mind Katrina, Kimberly Roberts is the real force of nature. Want more proof? Last night, I visited Kimberly and Scott at the condo where they're staying for the festival's duration. Kimberly was enjoying everything about the experience. What's remarkable is that after Trouble he Water premiered to ovations on Sunday night, the pregnant Kimberly's water broke. Rushed at midnight in a snowstorm to a Utah hospital in nearby Salt Lake City, she gave birth to daughter Skyy (that's right, two ks) on Martin Luther King day. "I guess drama just follows us around," she said with a laugh.

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Her name is Kimberly Rivers Roberts. Your never heard of her. Not yet. That's what Sundance is all about — finding new talent, such as Lance Hammer, the writer and director of Ballast Kimberly's star power comes from the music she writes and sings, music that was almost lost in the storm. The moment in the aftermath when she finds it and raps about her feelings will knock you off your feet. Here at Sundance, that moment gets audiences standing and cheering. Never mind Katrina, Kimberly Roberts is the real force of nature. Want more proof? Last night, I visited Kimberly and Scott at the condo where they're staying for the festival's duration. Kimberly was enjoying everything about the experience. What's remarkable is that after Trouble he Water premiered to ovations on Sunday night, the pregnant Kimberly's water broke. Rushed at midnight in a snowstorm to a Utah hospital in nearby Salt Lake City, she gave birth to daughter Skyy (that's right, two ks) on Martin Luther King day. "I guess drama just follows us around," she said with a laugh.

Read more: http://www.rollingstone.com/movies/blogs/the-travers-take/sundance-a-star-is-born-20080125#ixzz27PbHNxxl - Rolling Stone Magazine

"Katrina, she's a bad chick," observes Kim Rivers, 24, an aspiring rap artist (Black Kold Madina) and unassuming real-life heroine. In August 2005, as the awful hurricane battered New Orleans, Kim and her husband Scott Roberts saved lives by bringing flood victims to the attic of their house in the Ninth Ward. She is also ...


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The cameras were rolling when she found the CD at her cousin’s house. In the scene, she puts it on a boom box, then starts rapping live to the song “Amazing,” an assertive expression of self-confidence and resilience that gains resonance following all she and her family had to withstand.

There was no soundtrack album with the film, so she’s issuing it on her own, working to capitalize on the exposure the film has brought to her and her music. "Amazing" and three others can be streamed on her website. Most of her material carries messages of empowerment, without soft-pedaling the injustice experienced by so many during the storm and after those troubled waters subsided.

“Music, like, freed me and gave me understanding,” Roberts said. “A lot of times. I felt lost. and I’d go to a certain song, and it’d give me wisdom. Man, I love music. I got a lot of guidance from music.” - LA Times

Trouble the water is about how we gtew up poor but rose aboe that to help lots of people.And it's also about how the US.government failed it's poor black citizens. - Source Magazine

When fear steps in you are lost you are beat,you can't even think. - Esquire

The correspondent is Kimberly Rivers-Roberts and she is not just a journalist but an aspiring rapper who calls herself Black Kold Madina.In Kim they found a person who symbolized both the lower depths of urban life and the resilience,when faced with an impossible challenge to rise to a level higher then flood tide. Maybe Kim Scott and their crew were no angels before Katrina,but in Trouble the water,we see the lives of Saints. - Time Magazine

Kimberly Roberts an aspiring Rapper when she sings she gives a voice to there pain. - New York Post

Kim and Scott as a counterintuitive man-bites-dog story: the storm visits every conceivable misfortune on them but their lives wind up evidently transformed for the better. Before Katrina, they are quasi criminals; after, they are clean and sober, politically active, and pursuing musical careers. That may just be their luck, and it may just be temporary. In no way does Trouble the Water present a misleadingly positive picture of the condition of New Orleans; toward the end there is a very funny (because it resists the temptation to be heavily sarcastic) segment about the bouncy, patently false promotional materials being prepared by the local board of tourism.

Still, five and a half years after the storm, there is something inspiring about seeing people in New Orleans simply getting on with their lives, despite all the reasons this shattering experience has given them to succumb to bitterness or despair. That’s what thousands and thousands of people in New Orleans have done. They’re not defeated. They inhabit their city. They don’t have many illusions about how things have gone or how they’re likely to go now, and there is honor—even hope—in the choice they have made.
- The New York Review of books

Trouble the water. Our Brush with Hurricane Gustav makes this sobering documentary about Hurricane Katrina and our government's shameful response punctuated with harrowing footage taken by a New Orleans couple as Katrina ravages their neighborhood-even more poignant.You'll be outraged all over again. - People Magazine

Through her music she has become a voice for change as Rapper Black Kold Madina. - Data News Weekly

The film is about Katrina, and even more about the human spirit. Kimberly and her husband, Scott, are the life force personified: smart, funny, undefeated, indignant, determined. Kimberly sings three songs on the soundtrack. We see her performing one of them. That scene reportedly won a standing ovation at Sundance 2008, where the film won the Grand Jury Prize as best documentary. - Roger Ebert.com

Kimberly Rivers-Roberts and aspiring Rapper started her own record label Born Hustler Records - Good Magazine

In the case of "Trouble the Water," the title song was recorded by a local artist, Kimberly Rivers Roberts, who is a focus of the film and performs under the stage name Black Kold Madina. (Have a listen for youself at her Web site, Born Hustler Records.Both "Trouble the Water" and "Fuel" are also on the Academy's short list in the Best Documentary Feature category.

Other films with local connections on the list include "Rachel Getting Married," "Cadillac Records" and "Dark Streets." - NOLA .COM

Though her street savvy helped her survive natural and unnatural disasters, it was a familiar love of the camera that turned Ms. Roberts, an aspiring musician, into a documentary star. (That’s her rapping over the final credits under her hip-hop name, Black Kold Madina.) As it does for a lot of young Americans — she is 24 when the movie opens — being in front of a camera seems perfectly natural to her, something close to a generational birthright. (By MANOHLA DARGIS) - New York Times