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After a wildly inappropriate song selection that led to a social media uproar, DJ T.O. has been suspended by the South Carolina Gamecocks. The basketball arena disk jockey apparently thought it was funny to play a song from Flau’Jae’s father late in the game when it appeared that South Carolina was on the path to victory.
Flau’Jae’s father, Jason Johnson, was a rapper who went by the name of Camoflauge. He was murdered in 2003, about six months before Flau’Jae was born.
The University of South Carolina issued this statement today: “We are addressing Friday night’s inappropriate in-game song selection and subsequent Instagram post by the DJ who is hired to work our women’s basketball games. Her actions were understandably upsetting to Flau’Jae Johnson and her family and disrespectful to the LSU program and fans. Conference rivalries and passionate fan bases should only serve to enhance sports, not be used to target individual players personally. We regret that it came to that in our venue after a game that saw both teams capture the level of national attention that women’s basketball has earned, and we apologize to Flau’Jae, her family, and LSU.
As a result of her actions, DJ T.O. will be suspended for the next women’s basketball home game, and we will meet with her to provide further education on our expectations of her in the future.”