LSU star basketball player Flau’jae Johnson and her fans were outraged that the deejay for South Carolina played a song of her father, rapper Camouflage, who was killed just before she was born.
The DJ in question, who goes by the stage name T.O., thought it was cute to play Camouflage’s song “F— Friends” at the end of the heavyweight hardwood battle that Johnson’s LSU Tigers lost to the South Carolina Gamecocks, 66-56 on Friday.
Flau’jae Johnson is hurt because her late father inspired her rap career
Camouflage was shot and killed in Johnson’s hometown of Savannah, Georgia, in 2003. Johnson, therefore, never got to know her father as she is now 21 years of age.
Johnson’s fame has been amplified because she became a rapper, inspired by her father, and a potential first-round basketball prospect in the 2025 WNBA Draft who won the national championship with Angel Reese in 2023.
When Johnson got wind of her late-father’s song being played, she addressed the disrespect on X, calling out South Carolina for what she deemed “nasty behavior.”
“I’ll take my L on the chin, but this just nasty behavior,” she wrote. “Nun funny bout that.”
The Gamecocks-Tigers rivalry has intensified over the years
The Tigers and Gamecocks are one of women’s college basketball’s greatest and fiercest rivalries. Last year in the SEC tournament, Johnson’s brother Trayron Milton was arrested after dashing onto the court during a physical confrontation between Johnson and Flau’jae and USC’s Kamilla Cardoso. According to reports, Milton is still facing trial on assault and battery and disorderly conduct charges.
This latest episode in the archrivals’ often intense matchups, as the deejay played the song from Johnson’s late father, incited a tizzy on X.
Fans were highly charged by the deejay’s actions
The DJ responds to the backlash for disrespecting Flau’jae Johnson
Deejay T.O. incurred the wrath of social media, and perhaps was admonished by the officials at the University of South Carolina, for her impudence. Following the tidal wave of criticism she received, the deejay apologized on social media.
“I apologize for playing Cut Friends Instrumental at the game yesterday,” she wrote on X. “It is never my intent to disrespect anyone or offend anyone when my job is to have fun and make sure other people have a good time. I’m from the Lowcountry/C-Port area so I’ve been playing it for years, even at other games, but I shouldn’t have played it at yesterday’s game.
“I play it on every radio station I’ve ever done from NC, GA, & SC & grew up on Camoflauge so it’s never played with ill intent or as a joke. I can’t control how anyone takes it but I can take responsibility & apologize.”
