Drake was in his feelings over his ex-girlfriends when he took to the stage on the other side of the globe just before two of them joined Kendrick Lamar’s blockbuster Super Bowl 2025 halftime performance.

The 38-year-old Canadian rapper was filmed delivering a rant about his exes as he paused the flow of his concert, which was the first stop of his Anita Max Win tour at the Rod Laver Arena in Melbourne, Australia, on Sunday night.

Although he didn’t single any of them out by name, his former partner Serena Williams didn’t have any qualms about joining Kendrick at the Super Bowl in New Orleans as a featured dancer during his show-stopping penultimate number, the hit Drake diss track Not Like Us.

The 43-year-old retired Tennis icon got some prime closeups on the television broadcast as she crip walked during the song, which featured Kendrick, 37, calling Drake out by name — though he censored the line calling the H๏τline Bling rapper a ‘certified pedophile,’ possibly out of fears of courting a lawsuit.

Another of Drake’s myriad exes, the singer SZA, also cast her allegiances with Kendrick when she joined him just before Not Like Us for their Black Panther soundtrack hit All The Stars.

In his Australian detour, Drake spoke to the crowd after the music had gone silent. 

Drake delivered an on-stage rant calling out unnamed exes at his show in Melbourne, Australia, just hours before two of his exes joined Kendrick Lamar at the Super Bowl halftime show; seen in 2023 in NYC

Among them was Serena Williams, who performed a crip walk during Kendrick’s blockbuster Drake diss track Not Like Us

SZA, who briefly dated Drake, was featured on two songs with Kendrick, though they didn’t include jabs at Drake

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‘If you ever, in your life, gave your time, gave your energy, gave your money, gave your heart, gave your soul, gave everything that you ever had to somebody, and they f***ing played with you and wasted your time, wasted your money…’ began Drake’s laundry list of complaints. 

The visibly animated rapper seemed to get more and more upset as he continued while pacing back and forth across the front of the stage.

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‘I want you to all to turn up to this song. This for all y’all exes and everybody think they can play you in their f***in’ life! If you doin’ better than your ex, I wanna see you f***in’ turn up!’ he said as his delivery turned into a shout.

The crowd seemed to feed off the energy, and they could be heard scream ‘Yes!’ as he wrapped up the rant.

‘Now you can play the song!’ he added for his DJ once he was finished.

His complaints appeared to —fittingly — introduce his song You Broke My Heart, which was featured as a bonus track on the deluxe edition of his most recent LP, For All The Dogs.

Drake and Serena were an item from 2011 to 2015, but she doesn’t appear to have had fond memories of the relationship, based on her decision to join Kendrick for a song solely dedicated to demolish his public image.

Notably, she had previously done a crip walk in public to great controversy to celebrated her defeat of Maria Sharapova at the Olympics in 2012.

‘If you ever… gave your time, gave your energy, gave your money… to somebody, and they f***ing played with you and wasted your time, wasted your money… I want you to all to turn up to this song,’ Drake said, getting increasingly upset and loud

This for all y’all exes and everybody think they can play you in their f***in’ life! If you doin’ better than your ex, I wanna see you f***in’ turn up!’ he said as his delivery turned into a shout. Then he began performing You Broke My Heart

He and Serena dated from 2011 to 2015; pictured Sunday

Drake said in a 2020 song that he and SZA briefly dated in 2008, though she later said it was actually a year later

After the Super Bowl, Serena joked, ‘I didn’t crip walk like that at Wimbledon, I would have been fined!’

Drake and SZA’s relationship appears to have been much more fleeting, and it doesn’t appear to have been publicly known until he spilled the beans during a 2020 interview.

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That year, his Metro Boomin and 21 Savage collaboration Mr. Right Now featured the line: ‘Yeah, said she wanna f*** to some SZA, wait / ‘Cause I used to date SZA back in ’08.’

Shortly after the song’s October 2020 release, SZA weighed in on X (formerly Twitter) to clarify that they had dated in 2009, rather than ’08, though she speculated that Drake may have just fudged the year to make the line rhyme.

She didn’t betray any obvious animosity to Drake, and she revealed why she even bothered to offer a seemingly minor correction.

‘I just didn’t want anybody thinking anything underage or creepy was happening,’ she wrote. ‘Completely innocent. Lifetimes ago.’

SZA would have been 18 throughout the entirety of 2008, but only barely, which might have made any friendly connections they had prior to dating look sinister.

Although Kendrick Lamar’s performance was hit with many viewers — and certainly the audience in the stadium, as they could be heard joining in on his Drake-slamming line ‘A minor’ — it also faced significant criticism on social media from rap haters and right-wing accounts

It’s unclear if SZA, who also collaborated with Kendrick on Luther, meant to make an anti-Drake statement with her Super Bowl collaboration.

The To Pimp A ʙuттerly rapper included another of his Drake diss tracks, the less popular Euphoria, but the songs she performed on, Luther and All The Stars, don’t appear to have any Drake connection.

Luther was featured on Kendrick’s latest album, GNX, but All The Stars came out on the Black Panther soundtrack and was featured in the Marvel movie of the same name, preceding his major beef with Drake. 

Although Kendrick Lamar’s performance was hit with many viewers — and certainly the audience in the stadium, as they could be heard joining in on his Drake-slamming line ‘A minor’ —  it also faced significant criticism on social media from viewers.

Many of the most critical accounts confessed to not being fans of rap music in general and shared hopes for future Super Bowl halftime shows featuring rock or country music artists, while other conservative and right-wing accounts derided the performance.