The athletic division of the College of South Carolina (USC) issued an apology and suspended their in-arena DJ after an issue surrounding tune alternative and the star of LSU’s girls’s basketball program, Flau’Jae Johnson. After USC beat LSU 66-56 on Friday night, the in-arena DJ — DJ T.O. — performed the instrumental model of “Minimize Buddies,” a tune recorded by Johnson’s father, rapper Camouflage, who was murdered in 2003, simply months earlier than Flau’Jae was born.
When a fan identified to DJ T.O. in an Instagram story that “enjoying camouflage on the finish of the sport was loopy,” the in-arena DJ responded with “my unhealthy” and a laughing emoji. Flau’Jae noticed the submit and responded to it (with a screenshot of DJ T.O.’s submit) through her X account, saying:
“I’ll take my L on the chin however this simply nasty habits. Nun humorous bout that.”
DJ T.O. later apologized through X, saying, “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 time.” She identified that she had performed the tune at different video games however shouldn’t have performed it there.
On Sunday (Jan. 26), the College of South Carolina’s athletic division issued an announcement through X concerning the inappropriate tune choice and apologized to LSU and Flau’Jae Johnson and her household, noting that DJ T.O. was suspended for the subsequent girls’s dwelling sport.
“We remorse that it got here to that in our venue after a sport that noticed each groups seize the extent of nationwide consideration that girls’s basketball has earned, and we apologize to Flau’Jae, her household and LSU.
“Because of her actions, DJ T.O. might be suspended for the subsequent girls’s basketball dwelling sport, and we’ll meet along with her to offer additional schooling on our expectations of her sooner or later.”
Each USC and LSU are nationally ranked applications (2 and seven, respectively) and anticipated to compete for the ladies’s school basketball nationwide championship later this yr.
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