disaster , we -LSB- carried -RSB- 39 dead bodies ... from here to the central cemetery , '' said Gaby Guerrier , the manager of the band . He spoke while standing on a rooftop which offered a view of a devastated urban landscape of collapsed and dangerously sagging cinderblock apartment buildings . The members of S.A.L. have been forced to abandon their homes in this tightly-packed community of concrete houses and narrow alleyways . `` It 's too dangerous , nobody wants to live in the houses again , '' said Guerrier 's younger brother Panarothy , also known as the rapper named `` Next . '' He led CNN on a tour , past a large wall mural showing S.A.L. 's name in jagged graffiti , to the sprawling , fetid camp where the band , their families , and some 4,500 other displaced Haitians now live . The artists have helped each other build crude shacks out of plywood and rusting metal sheeting , along a winding dirt alleyway they have playfully nick-named `` Big Man Street . '' Twenty-one year old Geffrard Jonel , a.k.a. Fame , has already decorated the walls of his hut with
Port-au-Prince , Haiti -LRB- CNN -RRB- -- When the earth started to shake on January 12 , Rocher Joseph-Michelet was in his tiny , one-room apartment , composing lyrics for the upcoming Carnivale in Port-au-Prince . He ran out the door to find an entire two-story building , crumbling and falling in his direction . `` They break down . I fell down , I was on my back , '' he said . In heavily-accented English , peppered with American slang , Joseph-Michelet described how he was all-but buried under the rubble ... and then rescued by members of his hip-hop group . `` Thanks to God , thanks to my friends , '' he said . `` I 'm so proud it 's them come to save me . '' Joseph-Michelet is better known by his stage name `` MRJ . '' He is a member of a neighborhood hip-hop group called Sekte Atis Lib , or S.A.L. . They are six childhood friends from the same poor neighborhood who rap in Creole . MRJ escaped the earthquake with minor injuries . Many other residents of his neighborhood were n't so fortunate . `` Two days after the