LSU's Flau'jae Johnson juggles basketball fame with her burgeoning rap career

Player Flau’jae Johnson of LSU women’s basketball is sticking with it.

In addition to being a full-time student, an NCAA champion, and a rapper, the 20-year-old guard is one of the faces of the NIL era and is supposedly worth millions of dollars.

While acknowledging that her success in Baton Rouge is a result of having “beaten the odds” in her hometown of Savannah, Georgia, Johnson told The Post that she maintains her modesty despite the unbelievable circumstances.

“My mom [and manager Kia Brooks] raised me and that just made me who I was,” In the run-up to March Madness 2024, Johnson spoke with The Post about the sponsorship deal she has with Powerade.

“The whole city is like a dog eat dog. You gotta be one of the ones to come out of there and really make something of yourself. My mom really just took care of me and my brothers and did her best for us to make it out of there and she did an amazing job and was blessed to have it.”

According to Forbes, the All-American guard is the daughter of rapper Jason Johnson from the 1980s, also known as Camouflage, who died in an unexplained gunshot five months before she was born.

Johnson signed a record contract with JAY-Z’s ROC Nation during her freshman year at LSU. She also contributed significantly to the Lady Tigers’ victory over Caitlin Clark and the Iowa Hawkeyes in the National Championship game, scoring 10 points, grabbing seven rebounds, and dishing out four assists.

The 5-foot-10 firebrand is a media darling both on and off the court, partly because of her enormous social media fan base.

Johnson has 104,000 X followers, 195,000 YouTube subscribers, 1.7 million Instagram followers, and 1.4 million TikTok followers.

Johnson has her own method for handling the limelight, which includes dismissals of her song lyrics in the past and speculations on social media during teammate Angel Reese’s absence last fall.

“I mean, with that stuff, you deal with it internally with the team,” she said. “You really can’t listen too much to what social media says because everybody’s gonna have an opinion … you just look at the good.

“It’s kinda like you see what you wanna see. So, that’s why I don’t really be on social media like that in a way. I just focus on what I have going on.”

LeBron James, one of the rapper “Big 4″‘s heroes, gives her advice that inspires her to alter people’s opinions of her.

“LeBron told me to keep doing my thing and don’t ever stop,” Johnson stated, adding that the Lakers star had personally spoken with her when she visited one of her gigs. “That’s something that I vividly remember him saying. That was the greatest [moment] for me.

“I was like, ‘Wow, absolutely.’ I love watching this man [play basketball]. That’s crazy.”

Johnson maintains a regular schedule that helps him balance his roles as a top athlete, rapper, influencer, and student.

Because of her hectic travel schedule and professional obligations, she only attends one in-person college class at LSU; the other classes are taken online.

Johnson temporarily departed from Baton Rouge in order to support Rod Wave during his December 2023 event in Atlanta.

Prior to the recent on-court altercation that occurred during the SEC championship game on March 10, which saw LSU lose to South Carolina 79-72, Johnson had an interview with The Post.

After several heated arguments between the two teams, Gamecocks center Kamilla Cardoso approached Johnson and violently shoved her to the ground.

After the benches were cleared, Trayron Milton, Johnson’s brother, 24, leaped over the scorer’s table and hurried across the court.

Due to his involvement in the event, Milton was detained, accused with assault and battery, and released from custody after posting bail totaling $1,087.50 for each allegation.

“It’s all been a blessing,” Johnson stated of her achievements. “I think coming from the city that I come from and just beating the odds, I just try to stay humble. Anything materialistic, that doesn’t really matter.

“But when you do something where you can inspire people and you can change people’s perception and then they wanna follow you — I think that’s the difference-maker in everything … When people see me and they love me and they wanna support anything that I do, I think it’s because I inspired them and changed the perception. So I think things that are really, really important for me are just being who I am, coming from where I come from, and being able to change people’s lives and inspire them in a different way.”

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LSU’s Flau’jae Johnson juggles basketball fame with her burgeoning rap career