After a current girls’s basketball recreation between the South Carolina Gamecocks and the Louisiana State College Tigers, South Carolina’s DJ performed an instrumental track from the deceased father of LSU’s Flau’Jae Johnson and later apologized that it occurred. The college suspended the DJ after the incident.
The Gamecocks defeated the Tigers on its house court docket on Friday, Jan. 24, by outscoring them 66-56. After the sport, DJ T.O. performed an instrumental of a track titled “Lower Mates” by Camoflauge. Based on USA Immediately, that track, which got here out in 2001, was recorded by Johnson’s father, whose actual identify was Jason Johnson, who used the moniker Camoflauge as a rapper. Flau’Jae by no means met her father as a result of he was shot and killed six months earlier than she was born. He died on Might 19, 2003.
DJ T.O. posted on social media, acknowledging that she performed the track and writing “my unhealthy” with emojis displaying the crying and laughing faces. Flau’Jaue reposted what was posted and referred to as the DJ out on the “nasty habits” she confirmed by enjoying the track and commenting on what she did.
I’ll take my L on the chin, however this simply nasty habits. Nun humorous bout that pic.twitter.com/BKYGgGvfGo
— Flaujae 4️⃣ (@Flaujae) January 26, 2025
DJ T.O. did apologize for the put up.
“It’s by no means my intent to disrespect anybody or offend anybody when my job is to have enjoyable and ensure different individuals have a great time. … I’ve been enjoying [the song] for years, even at different video games, however I shouldn’t have performed it at yesterday’s recreation.”
Nonetheless, South Carolina additionally apologized and acknowledged that DJ T.O. was suspended for one recreation because of her actions.
“We’re addressing Friday night time’s inappropriate in-game track choice and subsequent social media put up by the DJ employed to work our girls’s basketball video games. Her actions had been understandably upsetting to Flau’Jae Johnson and her household and disrespectful to the LSU program and followers.”
“On account of her actions, DJ T.O. can be suspended for the following girls’s basketball house recreation, and we’ll meet together with her to offer additional schooling on our expectations of her sooner or later.”
Assertion from South Carolina Athletics pic.twitter.com/erarZ1BCjt
— South Carolina Ladies’s Basketball (@GamecockWBB) January 26, 2025
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