Serena Williams says Super Bowl dance with Kendrick Lamar was 'absolutely not' a diss of Drake
Tennis legend Serena Williams is clearing the air about speculation that her viral dance during the Super Bowl halftime show was casting shade at her ex, Drake.
Tennis legend Serena Williams is clearing the air about speculation that her viral dance during the Super Bowl halftime show was casting shade at her ex, Drake.
During the halftime show by Kendrick Lamar, Williams danced on a podium and crip walked as Lamar was performing “Not Like Us,” his diss track against Drake. A crip walk is a dance move that originated from the Los Angeles Crips gang.
In a new interview with Time, she insisted she wasn’t dissing Drake by joining the performance.
“Absolutely not,” she said. “I would never do that. And that was sad, that anyone would ever think that. I respect how they could. Obviously I can see how someone would think that. But absolutely not. I have never had negative feelings towards him. We’ve known him for so many years.”
Her husband, Alexis Ohanian, had also shut down that idea, writing on X on Feb. 10: “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.”
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