Serena Williams brushes off Drake theory by revealing real reason behind crip walk to Kendrick Lamar’s diss track at Super Bowl
Serena Williams took to social media to reveal what prompted her to crip walk to Kendrick Lamar's song at Super Bowl LIX.
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Did Serena Williams intend to call out Drake during her Super Bowl performance? Williams didn’t make any remarks on it and rather revealed the real reason behind her crip walk to Drake’s nemesis Kendrick Lamar‘s song during the halftime.
When Lamar was performing his ‘Not Like Us’ Drake diss track, the camera moved toward a woman in a blue jacket and a tennis skirt grooving to the music. It was Williams of course and her dance not only entertained the crowd but was perceived as a dig at the Canadian rapper.
Williams was rumored to be in a relationship with Drake before she met her now husband and Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian. Tennis journalist Ben Rothenberg, who was impressed by Williams’ dance, even recalled how Drake would follow Williams everywhere she went, in his article for Slate.
And in the wake of the Super Bowl, Drake took to his Instagram to share a picture of him with Williams’ former agent Jill Smoller. Amidst all this, Williams revealed the conversation she had with Lamar that prompted her to collaborate with him.
When @kendricklamar and team called and was like ‘we’ve been trying to do something forever, what about this? We loved your crip walk at the Olympics after you won the gold medal.’ I’m like Super Bowl? Are you serious? When in the world would I ever be able to dance at a Super Bowl? (Never) let’s do it! I knew my winning dance after the @olympics would pay off one day. End of story.
Serena Williams wrote on X
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Coco Gauff lauds Serena Williams’ Super Bowl halftime show
The tennis community loved Serena Williams‘ crip walk, and Coco Gauff too thinks it was her idol who stole the show. She took to her social media and called Williams a GOAT (greatest of all time), and ‘icon doing iconic things’.
Loved the show and serena ate that. I love rap music and hip hop culture man. shoutout to sza too & K dot and #SamuelLJackson narrating was just chef kiss. well thought out.
Coco Gauff wrote on X
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serena is the 🐐! icon doing iconic things
— Coco Gauff (@CocoGauff) February 10, 2025
congrats to philly lolll it was fun being an eagles fan for a day. I gotta go back to my fins now but hopefully we’ll see this success in my lifetime 😭😣
— Coco Gauff (@CocoGauff) February 10, 2025
Not every comment was positive. ESPN analyst Stephen A. Smith criticized the 23-time Grand Slam singles champion by joking that if he was Williams’ husband, he would divorce her for ‘trolling her ex’. When Alexis Ohanian came across the tweet, he took a cheeky jibe at him.
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