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.

Seven long years after whatever their relationship had been, Drake addressed Serena and Ohanian in his 2022 track “Middle of the Ocean”: “Sidebar, Serena, your husband a groupie/ He claim we don’t got a problem but/ No boo, it is like you coming for sushi.”