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The Kendrick Lamar and Drake beef is the gift that just keeps on giving.
The tennis match of diss tracks has now spawned into a disagreement between Serena Williams’ husband, Alexis Ohanian, and former ESPN sports pundit Jason Whitlock.
It all began when Williams joined Lamar on stage during his Super Bowl Halftime performance, and crip walked while he rapped ‘Not Like Us.’
Some took it as a triumphant moment for Williams after she was criticized at the 2012 London Olympics for doing that dance to celebrate victory, while others thought it was a perceived shot at Drake.
Whitlock believed the latter, and after Ohanian tweeted how important a moment it was for his wife, he quote tweeted it, responding, “This is Serena’s husband, a true beta. He’s mad at me rather than the wife Crip walking and still thinking about Drake. Simp.”
That’s when Ohanian replied to Whitlock, eviscerating him, his personal life, and his need for internet validation.
“I get it—you’re 57, and life didn’t turn out the way you imagined. That kind of disappointment must be exhausting,” Ohanina began. “You’re the embodiment of peaked in high school, spending decades chasing validation from strangers through Likes and Digital Hugs, only to find that no amount of external approval fills the void. I wouldn’t wish that on anyone.”
Ohanian continues by outright calling his hot take trash.
“Criticism only fuels your victim complex, reinforcing the comforting delusion that there’s some grand conspiracy against you and your “brave ideas”—when in reality, you’ve just got terrible takes. It’s a cycle: outrage, backlash, self-pity, repeat,” he wrote.
The Reddit cofounder then gave him some tongue-in-cheek advice, telling him to look within.
“This is a lonely road. There’s still time to rewrite the ending — start by working on yourself first. You’ll find that if you wake up every morning trying to be a little better, a little more curious, you won’t have time for irrational hating — you’ll be too busy winning,” Ohanian ended the roast.
Stephen A. Smith was also one of the people who critiqued Williams’ dancing, going as far as to say that if his wife trolled her ex, he’d tell her to “go back to his a-s.”
But see how social media is reacting to Ohanian defending his wife below.
