It’s additionally price mentioning that Serena Crip Strolling on the present is harking back to the time she confronted immense backlash for doing the identical dance at Wimbledon in 2012 after beating fellow tennis participant Maria Sharapova to safe gold on the Olympics.
Serena was scrutinized for performing the dance on the occasion, with critics suggesting that she was “glamorizing gang tradition.” Notably, Serena’s older sister, Yetunde, was killed by a Southside Crips member a decade prior.
Sharing a video on X, previously Twitter, after the Halftime Present, Serena joked that she’d have been “fined” for Crip Strolling like that at Wimbledon.
“Man, I didn’t Crip Stroll like that at Wimbledon. Ooh, I’d’ve been FINED,” she laughed earlier than including, “It was all love.”
Serena additionally shared a video of herself getting overvalued forward of the present. “Let’s go Tremendous Bowl halftime??! I died slightly!” she captioned the clip.