When Serena Williams appeared on the field while Kendrick Lamar was performing his infamous Drake diss track, “Not Like Us,” at the Super Bowl, it didn’t take long for people to allege that the tennis star was shading her ex-boyfriend. However, Williams says we’ve got it all wrong.

In her TIME100 interview, Williams said that she and Lamar, both Compton natives, have “been trying to do something together for ages,” and explained that the rapper was a fan of her famous crip walk after winning the gold medal at the 2012 London Olympics, a dance move that received backlash.