When the College of South Carolina and LSU ladies’s basketball groups meet one another on the courtroom, it’s sure to be a critical battle. However issues received particularly tense after a January 24 face-off between the 2 top-10-ranked groups when a DJ entertaining followers on the stadium performed a music that some thought was an particularly low blow to one among LSU’s star gamers.
After LSU misplaced the sport, DJ T.O., who was entertaining South Carolina followers at their house stadium in Columbia, performed the music “Minimize Pals” by the late rapper Camoflauge. Nevertheless, Camoflauge, whose actual title was Jason Akeil Johnson is LSU star participant Flau’Jae Johnson’s father, who was killed in 2003 – practically six months earlier than she was born.
Johnson responded to T.O.’s music selection with a January 25 submit on X, writing, “I’ll take my L on the chin, however this simply nasty habits. Nun humorous bout that.”
The College of South Carolina’s athletic division issued a press release on X apologizing to Johnson, her household and the LSU followers.
“Her actions had been understandably upsetting to Flau’Jae Johnson and her household and disrespectful to the LSU program and followers,” the assertion learn. “Convention rivalries and passionate fan bases ought to solely serve to reinforce sports activities, not be used to focus on particular person gamers personally. We remorse that it got here to that in our venue after a recreation that noticed each groups seize the extent of nationwide consideration that girls’s basketball has earned.”
DJ T.O., who was suspended for the following house recreation, additionally issued an apology on X for enjoying the music, saying she grew up listening to Camoflauge’s music and by no means meant to upset anybody with the music selection.
“It’s by no means my intent to disrespect anybody or offend anybody when my job is to have enjoyable and ensure different folks have time. I’m from the Lowcountry/C-Port space so I’ve been taking part in it for years, even at different video games, however I shouldn’t have performed it at yesterday’s recreation,“ she mentioned.