As evidenced throughout her career, Serena Williams likes to go big - and she doesn't do anything for small reasons. That includes her recent appearance during Kendrick Lamar‘s 2025 Super Bowl Halftime Show,

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.

Kendrick performed his now-Grammy-winning hit "Not Like Us," during which he stared at the camera and grinned while addressing Drake directly. Moments later, the audience yelled his infamous "A MINORRR" line while Kendrick danced around in his fitting lowercase ‘a’ necklace. Eek!

Serena appeared for just a few seconds during the closing moments of the 2025 Super Bowl halftime show. After Lamar finally launched into his Grammy-winning Drake diss track, "Not Like Us," the camera flipped to show Serena crip walking, a dance she famously performed at Wimbledon in 2012, to celebrate her win against Maria Sharapova.

The tennis superstar appeared during Kendrick Lamar’s performance of his hit Drake diss track, “Not Like Us,” much to the ESPN talker’s dismay.

Former world No. 1 tennis player Serena Williams made a surprise cameo in rapper Kendrick Lamar’s Super Bowl halftime show, showcasing the popular crip walk.

During Lamar's performance, actor Samuel L. Jackson appeared dressed as Uncle Sam, a character traditionally used to embody and represent the United States' government. Maner said she was surprised, and elated, to see this powerful iconography.

Serena Williams’ husband Alexis Ohanian celebrated her surprise moment during Kendrick Lamar’s Super Bowl Halftime Show performance.