Drake surprised the world this week when he released 100 gigabytes of unreleased content, including three new songs featuring Young Thug, 21 Savage and Latto. One unique nugget within the content dump was a video revealing that he wrote his Rihanna-assisted 2016 album “Too Good” about Serena Williams.
The video, released on Tuesday (August 6), shows the Toronto superstar sitting in the studio drinking and smoking hookah with his mother Sandra Graham and his favourite producer Noah “40” Shebib. They just finished “Too Good”, a record by Viewswhen his mother asked him if he talked about his past relationships in his music. “I smoke a few joints, but this is more about me and Serena (Williams),” to which Sandy replied, “I thought so! I thought so!”
He continued, “When I write songs about women, I also write songs for them so I know what kind of songs to write. If I’m talking about them, at least I’m doing them justice by writing them a song that they like, okay? So I know Serena very well. And I know she’s going to hear it loud and clear, but she’s also not going to hate me for it because it’s lighthearted.” His mother then added, “And she’s seeing someone else,” to which the 6th God replied, “I don’t know, mom.” Check it out below.
Drake and Serena Williams were in a relationship from 2010 to 2015. In 2011, he was spotted at her tennis matches and wrote a flirty tweet about her. “@SerenaWilliams I can’t wait to put it on you and make you sweat…… during our match this weekend,” he wrote. The five-time Grammy winner also mentioned her in his 2013 song “Worst Behavior” and had a back-and-forth with her ex-boyfriend Common, which the Chicago rapper attributed to them both having feelings for her.
“It was an emotional thing for me,” the “Go!” artist said in an interview. “Unfortunately, the argument may have been about a girl, even though I never said that at the time.” Drizzy continued to be seen at their tennis matches over the years and twice footage of the two kissing surfaced online. In his 2019 RapRadar In an interview, the “Rich Baby Daddy” artist revealed that the highest-earning female athlete of all time influenced the creation of his 2015 diss album “Back To Back,” which was aimed at Meek Mill.
This video shows that their relationship ended before “Too Good” was made, around the time he was romantically involved with Rihanna; this was confirmed when Williams got engaged to Reddit creator Alexis Ohanian in 2016 and married him in 2017. For all dogs Artist sang about her new relationship on his 2017 More life Take on “Nothings Into Somethings” and sing, “Did I just read that you got engaged to me?/ I heard from your boyfriend that you couldn’t even tell me/ Or better yet, wait for me.”
Things aren’t going well between Drake and Serena Williams at the moment. On his 2022 album “Middle Of The Ocean”, one of his solo albums from his Savage-assisted album 21 Your losshe insulted Alexis Ohanian. “By the way, Serena, your man is a groupie/ He says we don’t have a problem, but/ Nah, boo, it’s like you come eat sushi/ We can show up at his place at will, like Suzuki,” he rapped.
That prompted Ohanian to jump on X and claim the title of “Groupie” for himself. “The reason I always win is because I relentlessly strive to be the absolute best at everything I do – including being the best groupie for my wife and daughter,” he wrote.
Williams herself has contributed to the smear campaign that has taken place in recent months since the 6 God lost his feud with Kendrick Lamar. “And if I’ve learned anything this year, it’s that none of us – not one of us, not even me – should ever start a fight with Kendrick Lamar,” she said at the 2024 ESPYs as “Not Like Us,” in which she was mentioned by name, played in the background. “He’s going to make your hometown not like you anymore. The next time Drake is sitting courtside at a Raptors game, they’re going to play him like Forrest Gump.”
