Serena Williams made her Tremendous Bowl debut final night time as a particular visitor on Kendrick Lamar’s half-time present for LIX. Whereas the temporary look stunned many, the ladies’s tennis GOAT has loads of linkage with not solely the Pulitzer Prize profitable artist, but additionally the person whose depressing 2024 has filtered into the brand new 12 months.
Like Kendrick, Serena Williams is a local of Compton. All through their respective careers, each have proven loads of pleasure with regard to representing their roots. Throughout her Tremendous Bowl LIX half-time present look, she was seen performing a Crip-walk aka a C-walk; the sort of dance spells out the phrase “Crip” with the dancer’s toes with some elaborate maneuvering, and has roots relationship again to the Seventies from the Compton-based group.
Serena was sporting some tennis life-style attire from the lately launched Nike 24.7 collection, which touts new materials innovation for all-day consolation. The sneakers are the upcoming A Ma Maniere x Converse Chuck 70 collaboration, which Nike hand-dyed to color-match her Crip-appropriate clothes. These Chucks characteristic a Nike emblem on the tongue in addition to the higher; these are totally different from the Associates And Household model that surfaced again in December.
Serena’s participation goes past a hometown friendship. She was rumored to have dated Drake over a decade in the past, and in his subsequent songs the Canadian rapper referenced the tennis legend in lyrics, going so far as calling her now husband a “groupie”. That stated, Williams doesn’t like Drake, to place it mildly. And with with the prospect of getting hundreds of thousands of viewers shouting “a minorrrrrr”, Serena doubtless had no hesitation in becoming a member of Lamar on stage.