Driis

First off, thanks for all the kind words on Takers –
both the movie and the mixtape.
Myself and the entire Headshell fam thank you
for your music submissions and support.

Somehow lost in all the talk of where the film would finish
in the opening weekend box office was something far more important:
the five-year anniversary of when Hurricane Katrina ravaged New Orleans.
I was not too far away when Katrina and then Rita hit,
filming The Reaping in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
In fact, the ongoing weather conditions prevented me from traveling to Atlanta
for the world premiere festivities for my first film with Rainforest, The Gospel.
But now as it was then, things like movies are unimportant compared
to the lives that still continue to be affected by this disaster five years on.
Spike Lee has made another great documentary on the tragedy for HBO,
If God Is Willing and Da Creek Don’t Rise,
but just as striking are residents’ first-hand, self-shot video accounts
that YouTube’s CitizenTube collected in the playlist below.

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