Drake Says “Too Good” From ‘Views’ Album Was Written About Serena Williams

Drake 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 2016 Rihanna-assisted record “Too Good” about Serena Williams the Toronto superstar sitting in the studio drinking and smoking hookah with his mother Sandra Graham and go-to producer Noah “40” Shebib. They were finishing “Too Good,” a record off of Views, when his mother asked about him discussing his past relationships in his music. “I get heavy on a couple joints but this is more about me and Serena [Williams],” to which Sandy replied, “I gathered! I gathered that!” He continued, “When I make songs about women, I also make songs for them so I know what kind of song to make. If I’m gonna talk about them, I’ll at least do them the justice of making them a song that they like, okay? So I know Serena very well. And I know that she’ll hear it loud and clear, but she’ll also not hate me for it because it’s lighthearted.” His mother then added, “And she’s seeing someone else,” to which the 6 God replied, “I don’t know, mom. Drake and Serena Williams were romantically linked from 2010 to 2015. In 2011, he was seen attending her tennis matches and made a flirty tweet about her. “@SerenaWilliams I cannot wait to put it on you and make you sweat……. during our match this weekend,” he wrote. The five-time Grammy winner also name-dropped her in his 2013 song “Worst Behavior,” and had a back-and-forth with her ex-boyfriend Common, which the Chicago rapper believed was due to them both having feelings for her.“ For me, I think it was an emotional thing,” the “Go!” artist said in an interview. “Unfortunately the war might have been over a girl, even though at the time I never said that.” Drizzy continued to be seen at her tennis matches over the years and footage of them kissing surfaced online on two occasions. He revealed that the highest-earning woman athlete of all time influenced the creation of his 2015 Meek Mill-targeted diss record “Back To Back.” This video shows that things broke down between them before “Too Good” was created, which was also around the time he was romantically linked to Rihanna; it was confirmed when Williams got engaged to Reddit creator Alexis Ohanian in 2016 and married him in 2017. The For All The Dogs artist crooned about her new relationship on his 2017 More Life record “Nothings Into Somethings,” singing “Did I just read that you just got engaged on me?/ I heard from your friend, you couldn’t even tell me/ Or better yet, wait on me. Things are far from peachy between Drake and Serena Williams these days. On his 2022 record “Middle Of The Ocean,” one of his solo records from his 21 Savage-assisted album Her Loss, he dissed Alexis Ohanian. “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,” he rapped. It prompted Ohanian to jump on X and respond by owning the “groupie” title. “The reason I stay winning is because I’m relentless about being the absolute best at whatever I do including being the best groupie for my wife & daughter,” he wrote. Williams herself added to the pile-on that has occurred over the last few 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 a single one of us, not even me—should ever pick a fight with Kendrick Lamar,” she said at the 2024 ESPYs as “Not Like Us,” which mentioned her by name, played in the background. “He will make your hometown not like you. The next time Drake sits courtside at a Raptors game, they’re gonna Forrest Gump him.

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