Key Takeaways:

• Drake preferred a remark calling Sexyy Red a “Serena Williams upgrade,” sparking renewed drama.
• The Instagram second reignited fan hypothesis about his previous with Williams and present tensions.
• Their historical past features a rumored relationship and previous lyrical pictures, together with a 2022 diss geared toward Williams’ husband.

Drake simply can’t assist himself. The Toronto rapper has stirred a commotion after eagle-eyed social media customers noticed that he preferred an Instagram remark that shaded tennis legend Serena Williams.

For context, the 6 God and Williams have been as soon as romantically concerned within the early to mid 2010s. Flash ahead to the Super Bowl 2025 halftime present and the latter was spotted on stage Crip Walking throughout Kendrick Lamar’s efficiency of “Not Like Us.” Along with different cameos, the present was broadly thought-about one other win for the Compton rapper in his ongoing battle with Drizzy.

On Tuesday (Nov. 18), Champagne Papi posted a sequence of pictures with rapper Sexyy Red on his Instagram. The tennis-themed photos appeared alongside the caption: “I said tennis lesson. She said where’s the bracelet or the necklace.”

The put up was harmless sufficient (apart from the “Pound Town” rapper being bent over together with her butt dealing with the digital camera in a few snaps). However, one touch upon the put up learn, “Serena Williams upgrade,” together with a pair of fireplace emojis. Sharp-eyed observers, including TMZ, seen that Drake preferred the aforementioned remark.

When it involves tennis, Sexyy and the proprietor of a number of Wimbledon, US Open and extra tennis titles than you’ll be able to title aren’t even in the identical galaxy. Regardless, the alleged shade is on-brand for Drake since he’s beforehand taken pictures on the professional tennis GOAT. On his 2022 monitor “Middle of the Ocean,” Drizzy rapped, “Sidebar, Serena, your husband a groupie / He claim we don’t got a problem but / No, boo, it is like you comin’ for sushi / We might pop up on ’em at will like Suzuki,” referring to her hubbie, Alexis Ohanian.

Notably, a day after Williams danced to “Not Like Us” on the Super Bowl — which she adamantly claimed was not aimed on the rapper and as an alternative an homage to her Compton hometown — Ohnian took to X to remind everybody how his spouse was vilified for a similar strikes after she received a gold medal on the London Olympics in 2012.

“Some of y’all have no idea how criticized Serena was for this same dance at Wimbledon 13 years ago and it shows,” he tweeted. “This is bigger than the music.”

We’ll have to attend and see if Williams responds in type to Drake, however we wouldn’t maintain our breath.