Serena Williams’ cameo throughout Kendrick Lamar’s Tremendous Bowl 2025 halftime present turned heads and raised eyebrows for a variety of causes.
The tennis celebrity appeared throughout Lamar’s efficiency of “Not Like Us,” displaying her dance strikes whereas Lamar rapped the hit Drake diss observe.
Williams’ look throughout this specific music is not any coincidence as she dated Drake in 2011, which wound up with the Canadian rapper releasing the music “Too Good” about Williams 5 years later wherein he repeats the lyric, “I’m too good to you.”
Williams is married to Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian, and the pair have two daughters.
This raised questions on Williams’ rationale for partaking within the diss observe efficiency and its petty jabs towards her romantic fling from almost 15 years in the past, when she now has a household of her personal.
Enter, Stephen A. Smith.
“If I’m married and my wife is going to join trolling her ex, go back to his ass, ’cause clearly you don’t belong with me,” Smith stated Monday on ESPN’s “First Take.”
“What you worried about him for and you’re with me? Bye. Bye.”
“If you were with Serena Williams, you’re going to be a kept man anyways,” co-host Ryan Clark responded. “Don’t start that.”
Shannon Sharpe additionally got here to Ohanian’s protection, noting that he did properly sufficient for himself financially.
Becoming a member of Lamar and Williams within the onslaught of trolling was yet one more companion from his previous: SZA.
Drake raps, “I used to date SZA back in ‘08,” in his characteristic on, “Mr. Right Now,” by 21 Savage and Metro Boomin. SZA later confirmed this, although added that it was really 2009.
Whereas SZA featured primarily in different parts of the efficiency and didn’t add any specific trolling, it might have been a troublesome look ahead to Drake as Lamar carried out the Track of the 12 months Grammy-winning diss observe with two of Drake’s exes at an occasion he would naturally wish to headline himself.
There’s been no public response from Drake, although, whereas onlookers proceed to both applaud Williams’ trolling or, like Stephen A. Smith, query if the rapper is staying rent-free in her thoughts 14 years later.
