Honestly, the "dancing" girls in the background made us very, very sad.

Ron D MySpace Page [MySpace]

In what's shaping up to be the most vicious rap beef since 50 Cent tangled with Oprah, Common and Kanye West have ignored Lil' Ronnie's advice to "step off." No, they have stepped right the heck on, recording this little pro-Bears ditty, "Southside Superbowl."

Download here, courtesy of Spine Magazine.

So that's RonD on the side of the Colts, and Common and Kanye West on the side of the Bears. Welcome to what I'm sure will be the least violent rap war of all time... there's almost no possibility of someone getting shot here. One guy wears a backpack, one guy's in a Gap commercial, and one guy, in 2007, advises people to "step off."

We'll just have to let the album sales decide.

"Just one goal, Super Bowl Bound/
Matter of fact we rowdy in the Super Bowl now/
It's the three-one-seven, yeah the boys in blue, in the three-oh-five facing the three-one-two/
It's Joseph Addai, a thousand yards without a start/
And when the ball flies, you know it's caught by Dallas Clark ..."

Lil Ronnie is 13 now so his life is bitch city, yo, and he doesn't take no shit. Just check out his other new single, Let Yourself Go (you'll have to scroll down the page a bit), which is pretty much about him picking up girls on his bike ... just how Jay-Z does it. It includes the lyrics: "Naptown superstar, and that's no junk/I'm the best around, so step off, punk!"

Yes Brian Urlacher, you had best step off!

Super Bowl Bound 2007 Remix [31 South Entertainment]
Lil Ronnie Myspace Page
Lil Ronnie Will Crush You [Deadspin]

(UPDATE: Lil Ronnie to appear on Fox and Friends during Sunday's pregame activities. Keep that finger on the seven-second delay, guys!)

So here's a question: Whatever happened to Lil Ronnie? Longtime Deadspin readers will remember Lil Ronnie, the 12-year-old from the "south side" of Indianapolis who serenaded his beloved Colts with "Super Bowl Bound," the hip-hop ode with the cityscape of Indy pulsing in the background. He was cute, he was fierce, he was driven, man; he was Lil freaking Ronnie.

But now, with the Colts undefeated and seemingly on top of the NFL world ... where's Lil Ronnie? We could certainly use his Talk Of Trash; he surely has much to say. That said, he is 13 now; he might have finally realized that girls are a little cooler than Jim Sorgi. Hey, it happened to Tupac.

Talkin' 'Bout 87, My Homey Reggie Wayne [Deadspin]
"Super Bowl Bound" [Lil Ronnie]

The NBA commissioner said Wednesday that he would prefer his players leave their firearms behind when they go out. "It's a pretty, I think, widely accepted statistic that if you carry a gun, your chances of being shot by one increase dramatically," Stern said during his preseason conference call. "We think this is an alarming subject, that although you'll read players saying how they feel safer with guns, in fact those guns actually make them less safe."

Yes, we would hate to see J.J. Redick shoot himself in the foot.

The subject was raised recently when the Pacers' Stephen Jackson shot a gun in the air "at least five times" outside an Indianapolis strip club on Oct. 6. He originally told police he fired in self-defense during a fight in which he was hit by a car. And yes, they do have strip clubs in Indianapolis, even though they all have Lil Ronnie as a bouncer.

Stern To Players: Leave Your Guns At Home [MSNBC]

Interviewer: Your Web site mentions that people have been "hating on" you since the song and video came out.

Lil Ronnie: Yeah, people on deadspin.com. The people (who run the site) like it, but people on the site were hatin' on us.

Interviewer: How did you react?

Lil Ronnie: We just treat 'em like nothin'. We just smile.

Yeah, you punk bitches.

Crunk 4 Da Colts [InTake Weekly]
"Talkin' 'Bout 87, My Homey Reggie Wayne" [Deadspin]

Surprisingly enough, Peyton left "CHOKE ARTIST" out of his signature on the helmet. It does come with a certificate of authenticity, but there's no word on whether or not you get the black and white picture with the word "LOSER" scribbled over it. If you do buy it, though, it's like a seashell. You can hold it up to your ear, and you can hear it blame the offensive line.

The same person is also selling an autographed Mike Vanderjagt 8x10 (the bidding, inexplicably, is at $41), that the seller describes by saying, "Makes me want to choke everytime I look at it!!!!!!"

I'd hate to think it was Lil' Ronnie selling these, but hey... studio time isn't free.

We feel for you, Lil Ronnie. It is sad that your introduction to life's cruel foibles had to happen to you so soon. The good news, there are still countless bitches on your jock. That helps.

"Talkin' 'Bout 87, My Homey Reggie Wayne [Deadspin]
Now That I've Caught My Breath [Dave's Sports Views]
Lil Ronnie [CrowdPleezers]