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Having developed a life of its own, the Newport (Ymerodraeth State Of Mind) video has had a response from none other than Goldie Lookin' Chain.

Newport State Of Mind (You're Not From Newport), uploaded to the video-sharing site yesterday, gently accuses the team behind the YouTube phenomenon of not being familiar with the town they chose as the inspiration for their Alicia Keys/Jay-Z take-off. In doing so, they're reflecting a fair-sized proportion of commentators on various message boards and discussion forums who have taken exception to the fact that the writers and performers have minimal connection with the city.

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GLC's version of the song makes specific mention of some of the original's lyrics, and bats them back. "Big up to Paul Flynn, Not the Welsh Assembly" raps P Xain / Rhys, as well as pointing out that some celebrities name-checked in the song aren't from the city.

I caught up with Rhys yesterday evening and asked him why he was inspired to write the song. "Well it seemed to me like they were parodying the GLC," he said. "We were writing songs about Newport 10 years ago. Of course it's quite flattering to us and the people of Newport that people from Swindon or wherever are showing us affection.

"It's nice to see that we are held dearly in people's thoughts. They parodied us and now we're parodying a parody back.

"To a certain extent I was annoyed when I heard they were at the reopening of the Newport Transporter Bridge, but it's all good. Anything that brings attention to the city is good for Newport and the people of Newport. Let's hope that people who enjoyed the first one can enjoy this one too. It's nice to be important but it's more important to be nice eh?"

At the time of writing GLC's song has 306 views to the 2,444,629 of the original Newport State Of Mind video. Give it time...

Don't forget, we're after your suggestions for other Welsh places to be given the spoof video treatment.