What's Behind Serena Williams' Halftime Cameo? | The View
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- Опубліковано 11 лют 2025
- #TheView co-hosts weigh in on whether Serena Williams' halftime cameo was about clapping back at past criticism or trolling rapper Drake.
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Serena Williams looked amazing and killed the dance!!! Love her. 🙏❤❤❤❤
That is why he ain't married 😂😂
If you think Stephen A cant get married you're delusional 😂😂😂😂 there's no point in rich men getting married anymore
Exactly, that old and still toxically masculine
and single with no cats. 😂
Silly take
@@truthbtold8697for his 🤑 not his looks or personality 🤔
The dance itself was very cool. Loved it. That’s all.
I didn't even know she and Drake were a thing. I thought it was just about black culture and she's one of the biggest black culture icons of all time.
Educate them .....whoopie
It’s all the above
@Dis2good 🛑. Hauling....do ya know them personally.....No
Your a miserable ....freak
Looking for company 😭😭😭😞😭
Not Black culture but gang culture.
The song was famously a diss track to Drake and she is shouted out in the song because she dated Drake and had beef with him. Anybody who knows the song knows this, it was pop culture phenomenon for weeks on release.
Serena is representing Compton. You can interpret it anyway you want.
Serena still in love with Drake. She needs to move on.
@@bluejaym237 You must be delusional.
💯
Drake constantly talks about Serena in his songs. So in return, all she did was celebrate her city while also mocking the sensitive canadian boy.
I live in LA, been to Compton many times and Serena Crip walking is NOT a good representation of Compton. Especially since her sister and nephew were killed by gang violence.
She killed it actually🎉🔥🔥🔥💗
Serena Williams crip walking during Kendrick Lamar’s Super Bowl halftime show was more than just a celebration of their shared roots in Compton, California.
Fans on social media noted that she made a cameo while Lamar was performing “Not Like Us,” his Grammy-winning Drake diss song. This has layers to it, as Williams and Drake have a romantic history from 2015.
As Harper’s Bazaar pointed out, Lamar referenced Williams in the lyrics of the song, rapping, “From Alondra down to Central, better not speak on Serena.”
It’s been almost a decade since Williams and Drake sparked dating rumors. In August 2015, Drake had been attending Williams’s matches regularly, and TMZ ran photos of them making out at a dinner in Cincinnati.
By October 2015, their romance had ended, though. Us Weekly reported that Williams had moved onto her now-husband Alexis Ohanian. A source dismissed Williams and Drake’s relationship as well, saying it had just been a “flirty friendship.”
Williams said nothing about Drake after the performance, but she did post on X, formerly known as Twitter, about her cameo. “Let’s go Super Bowl halftime??! I died a little!” she wrote.
In a second clip, she wrote, “man, I did not crip walk like that at Wimbledon. Oooh, I would’ve been fined! It was all love.”
Serena was embarrassing herself
Serena’s sister was killed by a crip. I don’t understand why she did that. It’s disrespectful.
Please stop saying that. Serenas' nephew and sister were killed by gang violence. Compton is not just about gangs.
@@mecharidley and you care so much right?
This conversation is pointless
Stephen A. Smith, nobody cares what you think. “If my wife”. That’s right YOUR wife. Let her husband worry about it and if he’s not bothered why should you be?
🤣🤣🤣🤣👍👍👍👍
Stephen Smith is a provocateur and unhappy man
Kendrick gives Serena a shout out in Not Like Us lol it wasn’t random
Exactly. Whoopi thinks she is the authority and has zero idea what she’s talking about
Says a man that’s NEVER been married 😂😂😂😂😂
He's married to his hairline.🤣🤣🤣🤣
Stephen wouldn’t have too, because she would never give him the chance! 😂
Well I'm glad she's not married to him and she doesn't care what he thinks lol
The other guy on the show shut Stephen up right after
Serena Williams is an embarrassment!!!
Isnt funny how the men not once come on here & attack her for being married to a white man like some black women wld do to a brotha if he's married to a white woman. Also I'm not attacting her either because I don't care who she is married too I'm just proving a point!
Multiple things can be true and I feel like the panel is either being deliberately obtuse or don’t know enough of the Drake/Serena/Kendrick backstory. Yes, she was there to represent all the things they mentioned, but it was definitely a shot at Drake as well 😂
They definitely didn't know about it. It's was extremely obvious, too. The View need some new blood in their production that know of the culture.
Serena was mentioned in the song, so her feature was the cherry on top of that halftime show. Stephen A. is just a major hater. RIP Drake 😢😂
Are you blk??🤔
I took the appearance as a stance on the ability to do this on a bigger stage than the enjoyment she wanted to do on the tennis stage. Thank you for seeing this the way I did.
You think Serena was invited there to be in the show randomly? She was invited because she was Drake’s ex, and it was a dig at him. Sunny’s straw man history lesson about the dance is irrelevant
Serena Williams' Super Bowl cameo was a bold move, possibly aimed at Drake, with whom she has a past connection, as she danced to Kendrick Lamar's diss track "Not Like Us". Her appearance could also be seen as a cultural statement, echoing her past dance moves, but the timing and context suggest it was part of Lamar's strategic jab at Drake! GOTTA LOVE SUPERBOWL :D
I felt embarrassed for Serena. Pretty sad she's still obsessed with Drake
@@bluejaym237
I feel embarrased for you. Pretty sad you're so obssessed with Black people.
Joy checked ole double-talking Alyssa🤣🤣🤣🤣
Serena is one of the greatest athletes period. Not even just the greatest female athlete.
Nope, just female athlete. Any top COLLEGE male tennis player would destroy her.
She might make the top 1,000
Just a lazy attempt by Stephen A. and everyone who needs it to center a man around anything involving a woman. Serena was repping Compton in my book. 🤷♂️
You don't rep Compton by glamorizing a violent street gang .
Serena was enjoying herself having a wonderful time! She is happily married with 2 beautiful daughters ❤ Typical negative comments about a woman of color! Leave women of color alone!
You sound racist. grow up
You sound racist. Please grow up
Why are you so obsessed with skin color? Grow up!
@@bluejaym237And you sound like an ignorant racist.
@ Since you don’t know anything about me why do assume I am concerned about skin color. Perhaps it could be so many seem to always have negative comments towards beautiful women of color and their accomplishments. You should get over yourself! Look in your own mirror!
I love everything about her she looks great doing the C Walk dance 🖤
Drake dissed her husband on a song and Serena's husband clapped back so I'm sure he was good with it.
Serenas' husband came for Drake first.
@@Cocomelon2025-n9m😮 and?
@@Cocomelon2025-n9m don't come for me ....less I come for You 😭😭😭😭😭. Drake
@@myselfandismith1030 Alexis has been shading Drake for years. Drake has a right to clap back.
Loved when Whoopie went "We Do" at the end lol
Sunny is oblivious. Kendrick obviously invited Serena to be part of the performance to diss Drake. Ain’t not way she would be there just because of the Olympics. Get real.
Serena is a pure Compton made Rich by the Struggle never to forget her Roots
A Compton Native much love to are younger Black generation out of Compton
Her husband couldn’t be any prouder of her
he loves her for who she is 100% Black Native
To support those who have made it in the Struggle like Serena has should be a lesson to those want a bees
As for the young man commits about Serena husband
He married a partner not a Controller
that the difference in his commitments he is a controller over his wife not a partner and I am quite sure his blood line came out of the Struggle of Slaver
Shut up and be proud as Jame Brown said “”Am Black and Am Proud “”
Crip walking is not what you do when you make it out of Compton.
@Cocomelon2025-n9m She's rich and happily married. Get a life!!
@@Ap-lk5hwI have a life and I'm definitely not glorifying gang violence. Seems like you're the one that needs a life. Being happily married and rich doesn't immune you from being a fool.
The city of Compton represent! Yall know that it’s Black History Month and We got gold star athletes the William sisters, Princesses Megan And First Daughter Robin Bush!
DEI MAKES AMERICA GREAT!
As a black tennis player myself... I only new that she got flack for Wimbledon. She representing!!! Get over it.
*knew
It's both, there is a lyric in the song that's directly about Drake and how he talked about her, “From Alondra down to Central, better not speak on Serena.” After their fling Drake said some stuff about her husband. So, that's one reason she was there as another petty slap in the face to Drake. But with the whole performance there were layers to it, she was in fact "crip walking" as a reference to the match in which she got flack for doing it at Wimbledon, that goes with overall theme that Kendrick had about "black" people needing to act right and not ghetto, which Sam Jackson says at a few points during the show. This is why so many people are saying this was either the best or worst halftime show ever, because they either didn't get all the layers or they did in fact got them and didn't like them.
Indifference happens when you don’t care about someone anymore. Love or disdain means that person still provokes a feeling in you because you still care. (provided there is no extreme issues like abuse etc)
Stop explaining to folks. Serena did what she wanted to do. Nothing more. Nothing less..
She’s out there to troll because Drake tried saying crap about her hubby. She’s friends with Lamar and Drake has an obsession with her. She had every right
Lies! Her husband came for Drake first
“Aimed at somebody’s ex boyfriend”. Even Whoopi dragging Drake 😂
IT WAS A CLEAR SHOT AT DRAKE YALL ACTING CRAZY SAS IS RIGHT
Serena was not brought on because she was a good dancer. She literally came there to get back and Drake so Whippie is basically painting her own narrative.
Serena doesn’t have any time with him. She’s doing what makes her happy , Serena. We love you.
Guys 2 things can be true. It can be all about black excellence and Wimbledon. But also she was chosen and was dancing during that specific song because she’s drakes ex.
Let us just be happy and stop criticizing one another, we need some happiness in our lives I am sick and tired of being sick and tired , we all need to focus on Jesus
SAS is just an insecure, loud, obnoxious dude. She is from Compton and was representing.
So her sister gets killed by a Crip and she Crip walking cause she’s still petty about her Ex.. lmao what a fail 💀 u can’t make this up.. she embarrassed herself.. and it was actually the worst halftime.. the ladies are so mad, cause trump got cheered lmao
Two things can be true at the same time. it could have been a celebration of Black excellence AND a clap back to Drake....come on Sunny and Whoopi....
Love Sunnys hair.
Exactly why he’s never been married
Is crip walking suppose to mean something else besides being a member of the Crips gang? Didn’t the Crips kill her sister?
I'm sorry black people are lost, we care about the most dumbest things. We need to put this same energy in political capital Other groups come here take care of business and build their communities. who cares about this dumb beef between two rappers, it didn't change a thing in the world. Why are people acting like this halftime was on the level of Michael Jackson and Prince. Kendrick isn't some Civil rights activist, he got paid to perform, simple. Serena doing a gang dance is problematic, that's why she stated if she did that at Wimbledon she would have been fined, it's inappropriate, yet being celebrated by these women.
It's about everything Sunny said, but doubly about Drake. In the 'Not Like Us' lyrics, Kendrick tells Drake he 'better not speak on Serena' and that's because of everything Alyssia said. It's rarely just one meaning with Dot. We should've learned that by now, lol!
Come on now. The whole song is about dissing drake. This was a clap back because drake has been dragging her. Whoopi and Sunny are out of touch
I have to sadly agree. Especially whoop, though I love her. Time to go.
Whoopi my diva, why so pressed to rewrite the narrative here?
This hair looks good on Sunny
You got a point whoop! But yes that was a jab at Drake also. EVERYONE in Hip hop knows that.
First Serena looked sooooo pretty, and second I’m ok if Serena was taking shots @Drake for one Drake does go after her and her fam, he also stalked her for a while. The song is about Drake being a pedo so at least during “Not like Us” it was about Drake.
None of these women on the View would ever do that LOL.
Serena's appearance was def about Drake, IDK how these ladies could miss that.
Thank you Alyssa. Drake has been insulting Serena and her husband for yearrssss now. He even talks ish about Riri and ASAP. Kendrick told him to stop talking about Serena in his songs. Alyssa sure did her homework. DRAKE STARTED IT!!!!!
Serenas' husband came for Drake first. Y'all love lieing on Drake.
Sunny Hostin, the new hairstyle is perfection!
It's only cultural appropriation when white people do it.
All anyone has talked about since the Grammy’s is that Kendrick Lamar’s song is about his fight with Drake, so that is why everyone thinks Serena’s dance is about Drake. Sometimes these women on the View are downright obtuse. And what about the Crip walk being a symbol of what the Crips do after they murder someone??
She also did an entire monologue at the ESPYs about drake regarding this song.
Sunny's hair is great ❤
Now Ladies, two things can be true at one time 😏just saying
There is a component about Drake... because there's a line in the song "Not Like Us" that specifically mentions Serena. He didn't do the verse on the Super bowl but he had her there to push the point he made in the song to let Drake know he had Serena's back and his support.
I don’t understand the president and scientist just said that plastic are getting into our brains from water bottles ,and now he’s going back to plastic straws. Are we going backwards or forward?
It was about Drake ladies , lol
Please, this comment about not being about Drake is just silly. Of course is about digging Drake!! All the show was about that
Delulu...not about drake😂😂😂
As someone who was born and raised in LA, and Compton adjacent, Sunny sounds ridiculous and completely out of touch in this segment. Crip-walking is not akin to black excellence.
Thank you! Those of us in LA know this!
Steven Smith ....under those $1000.00 plus suits ..... " What you Jealous.....!!!!!! . "
Why do men always think stuff is about them? Stephen A. isn’t a provocateur he’s a brat!
promoting gang culture ... insane
This performance will for sure improve black communities and families. Your thoughts?
Stephen was right.
Sunny! I love your hair!❤️❤️
LOL
Yes she looks absolutely gorgeous with it but I can't help to think it's because her jealousy of Sara and whoopi being too close. FYI ever since whoopi got her all the way together a while back I think sunny has had the hots or maybe they had the hots for each other who knows just a hunch don't come for me
Agreed. They have a great glam squad at the view!
@@sarahb6163what! Lol😂
@@ceceoo3 it's called giving her that acc right. don't come for I'm not the one laughing at a compliment
Just so you all know, that foolish walk she did was not the crip walk. In case anyone cares.
Also, Stephen a Smith is a clown. He's always been a clown. He will always remain a clown. 🤡
Once again, Sunny being disingenuous. She can say that it wasn’t about Drake at all, but that’s so naive and I actually think probably naive. Yes, it was about much MORE than Drake because of her experience at Wimbledon, but if Serena, with her not so distant history with Drake where he’s dissing her relentlessly for years, chooses to show up and make her statement during a DISS TRACK aimed at Drake, then at the very least everyone involved, including herself, KNOWS it’s going to be seen as clapping back at Drake as well. If you really don’t want that to be part of the message and it’s solely about celebrating your roots and black culture then don’t choose to do it during that song. But Lamar chose to have it during that song. Serena agreed. So perhaps Lamar’s motivation was partly to attack Drake, and Serena signed off on that, but either way she knew that was going to be baked into it.
Gosh Sunny is such a kind person - its so nice that she must employ a blind person to do her hair and wigs.
Steven is RIGHT
It was still lowkey about Drake lol
The feud schtick is getting really old…Serena Williams was on the stage because she dated Drake for a bit…it was used as an extra dig at him during the halftime show…the feud thing was fun for a bit, but it’s more than run it’s course…
Stephen A. Smith is part of the MAGA clown cult (he kissed the ring)
It's deeper than that Drake called Serenas husband a fan
It's way deeper than that
How is a feud fun
Rap battles are pretty common when it comes to rap music
Drake took shots at Serena and her husband. Kendrick also referenced her in the song there is a line: You better not speak on Serena.
Completely agree. Well said.
@@diamonddoll1008Keep in mind Serenas' husband came for Drake first.
It was about drizzy....
The song “Not Like Us” is about being from the streets, of Compton specifically. The diss reference to Drake being that he is a rapper from the suburbs. That being said. The song is more about being an anthem for Compton, and Kendrick is the King of Compton so Serena Williams being here is to celebrate Compton.
Lies! I'm from LA and that's B S. Lol😅
Imagine crip walking when your own sister was killed by crips smh
Serena’s dance was ador-able!!! Not a fan of Kendrick Lamar but Serena is the best
No SAS, I bet her husband was front row cheering her on. It was beautiful. We got it ❤
Come on ladies, don’t be clueless! Huge Serena fan here, if you followed her over the years (interviews, press conferences, etc) you know Serena can hilariously petty, and we love her for it, and that Alexis can be as well 😂. I’m sure it was to rep Compton, but also sure it was to throw shade a Drake, who has been going after her and husband for years…which is what she did with this song the whole time it was popular…and that is ok and why we love Serena!
Sunny you look younger with your new do
If their husbands were spending their time abd energy focused on their exes these women would be singing a different tune. HYPOCRITES
Serena's marriage is kind of a hoax. We all know she's not into that man 😂
It was definitely about drake
And i may add, Its interesting that every celebrity is "happily married"...
Charleston white has entered the chat……
FINALLY!!!!!! SOMEBODY SAID IT!!!!!
Serena is literally mentioned in the “not like us”song by Kendrick as a diss to Drake. Why didn’t she come out to crip walk on the other songs he performed? Why this one? Welp, cause she’s actually mentioned in this song. Whoopie and Sunny come on…get yourself up-to-date.
The public will do what they do and speculate. The fact is, no one is entitled to say Drake is the reason for her appearance as if it's fact unless Kendrick or Serena herself confirms it. She's a sports legend out of Compton and that alone justifies her presence on that stage. Stephen A. Smith be talkin ish to make headlines.
It was absolutely about Drake, wtf are these ladies talking about? That was the whole point of the diss track LMFAO
Two things can be true...and neither were relevant as she left no crumbs. I think she killed it and had a great time. I loved that for her.
Well she came out to a song about her EX😂😂😂
And Serena loves dancing. She danced in Lemonade
Fire Whoopi. She has no idea what the topic is on most of the time because she doesn't care to do research or do her homework. She just shows up and expects to still have a job. Fire her.
She’s just having fun
Whoopi is soo clueless
These women are delusional 😅😅😅! It's 100% about Drake! According to the View panel, she coincidentally cameo on Drakes dis track 😂😂😂... Come on!
Whoops would spontaneously combust if she sat there and let Sunny finish a sentence 🙄
I loooove Sunny’s hair