Serena Williams’ Super Bowl moment had been 13 years in the making. After winning the Gold medal during the 2012 Olympics, Williams, who was raised in Compton, Calif., celebrated with the crip walk, a dance move popularized by California gangsters.

I t was a brief but blockbuster cameo. For less than five seconds in the closing moments of the 2025 Super Bowl halftime show, as headliner Kendrick Lamar performed his Grammy-award winning Drake diss track “Not Like Us,” the camera flipped to the corner of the stage to show 43-year-old tennis all-time-great Serena Williams crip walking.

The tennis star first came under fire after fans began speculating she only danced on Drake’s grave because of their romantic history. But it was Ohanian who first painted the bigger picture for people calling his wife petty.