University of South Carolina apologizes for playing song of LSU players's late father at game
The University of South Carolina apologized Sunday for its arena DJ’s playing a song by the late father of a Louisiana State University player, moments after the Gamecocks’ big women’s basketball victory over the Tigers.
The University of South Carolina apologized Sunday for its arena DJ’s playing a song by the late father of a Louisiana State University player, moments after the Gamecocks’ big women’s basketball victory over the Tigers.
No. 2 South Carolina beat then-No. 5 LSU in a fiercely contested battle Friday night in Columbia, pitting two dominant programs that have won the past three NCAA championships against each other.
And in the post-horn celebration, the arena DJ, who goes by the stage name DJ T.O., played “Cut Friends” by the late rapper Camoflauge, whose real name was Jason Akeil Johnson.
His daughter is star LSU guard Flau’Jae Johnson, and she was not pleased by the song choice, which she interpreted as a crass taunt. Johnson, who also raps, was born 5½ months after her father was slain in 2003.
"I’ll take my L on the chin, but this just nasty behavior. Nun funny bout that," she wrote Saturday on X.
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