It looks like Plies is keeping busy these days as he dropped another visual off his newest mixtape, Da Last Real Nigga Left 2. “Issues” is a track where Plies speaks bluntly about relationship problems. To keep it simple, the chick is so complexed he can’t read her.

The video takes place in a mansion, with different shots of him and his love interest throughout the house. “When you were young yo mama dropped you on yo head hoe!” is the tag line of the song.

Check out the video below and tell us what you think.

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by Rick Vents

The upcoming Brooklyn duo (by way of Crown Heights and East New York), I$O Indies, have been making quite a name for themselves lately through Hip Hop’s underground circuit. Now the two MC’s are back with their brand new video, “Conscious Kids“, produced by Sultan and directed/edited by AiP and Chimp. Fresh from debuting the video through WorldStarHipHop and already garnering 16,000+ views in such a short amount of time, the duo are making their mark within the culture.

The record itself boasts some heavy content flowed over a classic boom bap feel, claiming their ownership over their lives regardless of all the limitations seem to place on an awakened mind hidden within an inner-city appearance.

When asked about just how the record was originally created, here’s what I$O Indies had to say:

Honestly “Conscious Kids” was a track that was slept on by us. It was a beat that was sent to us by the London-based producer Sultan. We wrote to it in my boy’s basement, the track never even had potential of making the tape but we end up recording it in Brewery Recording Studios. It came out fuego, everybody heard it and loved it. Then on the other hand it was demanded that we put it on the tape and shoot a video for it.

Make sure to let us know what you think about the video and be sure to download their recently released project “I$O Indies EP” right here.

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It’s the YouTube of urban antics — and a formerly homeless ninth-grade dropout from Queens is the mogul behind it.

Hollis native Lee “Q” O’Denat makes sure WorldStarHipHop.com is “real, raw and uncut” — and peppered with such videos as one of cops grinding with near-naked dancers at the West Indian Day Parade.

Millions check in on the site each month to view the latest rap videos and such scenes as a woman dancing near a Bronx chicken joint with her bra outside her shirt or one stripping naked on a Bronx sidewalk.

Catfights are really popular. A June brawl at Downtown Brooklyn’s Pathmark shows women tearing off each other’s wigs.

“It’s not sugarcoated,” said O’Denat, 37.

Launched in 2005, the gritty page has become the 259th most popular in the nation, according to Alexa, a Web site-ranking service. It had 4.9 million unique US visitors last month, up 27 percent from a year ago, say comScore analysts.

O’Denat, a father of three and now in Arizona, would not discuss earnings but has full-time security and stays in four-star hotels, not bad for a kid who left Grover Cleveland HS, lost his home and lived out of his car.

He launched his site to stream video submissions just after YouTube kicked off in ’05. It had netted 142 million page views by last month, comScore reports.

“People,” O’Denat said, “relate to the realness.”

Via NY Post, “From HS dropout to online sensation”

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