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.

Williams’ appearance in the halftime show is also raising eyebrows because Lamar brought her out on stage during a song that’s commonly known as a diss to Drake. Lamar and Drake feuded over the years, culminating in a series of diss tracks about one another last summer — and a lawsuit.