While attending the Super Bowl, Serena Williams was showing off.
During the Super Bowl halftime show, Serena Williams made a brief appearance. She danced to Kendrick Lamar’s music.
The famous tennis player performed a “Crip walk,” a dance popularized by Henry “Crip” Heard, a Harlem dancer who suffered severe injuries in a car accident.
Williams also performed the dance at Wimbledon in 2012 after winning Olympic gold, which sparked a lot of criticism at the time. The Crips, a group of street gangs in California, adopted the dance.
Unfortunately, she received some negative feedback for her performance at the Super Bowl, with some people upset that she was dancing to Drake’s song “Not Like Us.”
Drake has mentioned Serena Williams a lot in his songs. He claimed that his song “Too Good” was about “me and Serena.” It is alleged that the two dated from 2011 until 2015.
She stated, “Man, I did not crip walk like that at Wimbledon, I would’ve been fined,” following her Super Bowl dance.
This time, her husband Alexis Ohanian was prepared to respond to any criticism directed at her by posting screenshots of some of the previous remarks made against Serena.
He wrote: “Some of you are unaware of the amount of criticism Serena received for performing the same dance at Wimbledon thirteen years ago, and it’s evident… The music is not as important as this.
In 2012, a sports pundit claimed that Williams “deserved to be criticised” and that his dancing at Wimbledon was “akin to cracking a tasteless, X-rated joke inside a church.” Ohanian tweeted pictures of the commentator’s remarks.
Additionally, he shared a video of Samuel L. Jackson in the role of Uncle Sam yelling, “Oh no, no!” during Kendrick Lamar’s halftime performance. It’s too loud! Too careless! Ghetto, too.
Then, with the remark, “meanwhile, let ’em dance,” Ohanian shared another halftime performance clip.
He doesn’t seem to be amenable to people’s nonsense over his wife’s performance at the Super Bowl and her dancing on stage.
‘Kendrick getting Serena Williams to crip walk while singing ‘Not Like Us’ is nasty work,’ some viewers commented, while others found it ‘a wild flex by Kendrick’ to have the tennis player dance on stage while he sang about Drake.
Kendrick omitted his most contentious line regarding Drake from his song and had the Super Bowl audience sing it instead.
Drake has refuted the accusations leveled at him.