Serena Williams (GREG LOVETT/PALM BEACH POST-USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images)
Tennis champ Serena Williams shocked fans with a surprise cameo during Kendrick Lamar’s halftime show at the Super Bowl on Sunday.

The former athlete kept plans for her performance very quiet as she took to the stage to “Crip Walk” to the rapper’s hit “Not Like Us.”

Lamar’s song “Not Like Us” is one of the biggest diss songs of all time, and it is aimed at fellow rapper Drake, who he refers to in the lyrics as being part of a group of “certified pedophiles.”

Serena Williams was added to the moment due to years of unconfirmed speculation about a past romantic relationship between Drake and her.

Even in the song, Kendrick drops a line to Drake that he “better not speak on Serena.”

She received a lot of backlash over her performance, as many people mentioned that she is married with children and shouldn’t be worried about an ex-boyfriend.

Her husband sees it differently.

Serena Williams’ husband and Reddit founder, Alexis Ohanian, broke his silence to weigh in on his wife’s brief cameo during the Super Bowl 2025 Halftime Show.

Ohanian took to social media to share his thoughts about the performance.

Ohanian fired back at criticism as he shared screenshots of some of the things people had said about Serena in the past.

He wrote: “Some of y’all have no idea how criticized Serena was for this same dance at Wimbledon 13 years ago, and it shows… This is bigger than the music.”

Serena Williams Says Wimbledon Would’ve Fined Her For Crip Walking

Serena Williams appeared for under five seconds during Kendrick Lamar’s Super Bowl halftime show, but it was enough to get social media rolling.

The choice to bust out the crip walk was especially significant since she had once did it early on in her tennis career.

“Man I did not crip walk like that at Wimbledon, I would’ve been fined,” Williams said in a video.

VIDEO: Some Dude Just Dropped The Cold Hard Truth On Why All Of These NFL Prospects Are “Dating White Women”

Unless this is your first day in America, then you know race relations in this country dominate just everything, and that includes NBA and NFL drafts

During the most recent NFL Draft in Detroit, social media was buzzing as athletes showed up to the red carpet event with their girlfriends and family. Many of the incoming NFL rookies were African-American and were spotted with white women, which has become the usual theme for years.

The same thing happens with the NBA Draft.

This year, the discourse on the NFL Draft and NBA Draft has gotten even louder as African-American women openly pondered why so many of the players never have a partner that is the same race as them.

One guy on TikTok decided to answer that question by revealing that the vast majority of his division-1 friends in college or headed to the league are dating or married to white women and explained why.

He stated that some of them had told him that their white girlfriend looked up to Taylor Swift while their girlfriend looked up to Megan The Stallion. He then states the guy asks how many white women he has seen doing the Megan Thee Stallion challenge as opposed to Black women.

He then dove into another story of a friend who relayed that his Black girlfriend started to request money from him as soon as she found out about his NIL money. She wanted her hair and nails done. He then added that the Black women would be upset if they went to places like Chipotle, and she demanded steak houses.