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Flau’jae Johnson attends the 2025 ESPY Awards
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Flau’jae Johnson stopped by Shannon Sharpe’s famed “Membership Shay Shay” podcast for a wide-ranging interview, which premiered on Wednesday (July 16). The Louisiana State College basketball star, who additionally moonlights as a rapper, talked about her shut reference to Baton Rouge, Louisiana, rapper Boosie Badazz.
“Boosie bought a coronary heart of gold. He’ll provide you with his shirt off his again,” she mentioned. “Boosie mentioned in his music, ‘I don’t wish to be like Camoflauge / I met him one week, the subsequent week he died, I virtually cried’…[He] got here and [he] confirmed me love and took care of me like I used to be [his] little one whereas I used to be in [his] presence so he’ll at all times have my respect.”
The music she quoted was Boosie’s “Goin’ Through Some Thangs,” and sadly, their connection was fashioned out of the tragedy he talked about. Johnson’s father is the late Georgia rapper Camoflauge, who was shot and killed in Might 2003 — about six months earlier than she was born. Boosie stepped as much as look out for her within the absence of her father.
“He got here and taken care of me,” Johnson shared. “If I ever wanted something massive — like my mother by no means requested him for nothing, [but] if I wanted it and my momma mentioned, ‘I can’t do it’ — Boosie would come by…It was simply loopy to me as a result of I by no means had a father determine.”
The Roc Nation signee continued to reward Boosie for welcoming her into his dwelling, the place she might kick it by the pool and befriend his children, with whom she continues to be shut with. Nevertheless, she was positive to say she will be able to’t co-sign all of Boosie’s rhetoric — which is comprehensible, contemplating the “Wipe Me Down” artist is fast to supply sizzling takes which have offended folks. “I can’t defend him on a regular basis ‘trigger he [says] some off the wall stuff,” she admitted with amusing. “I be like, ‘That’s my uncle man, I don’t know…’”