“That was like a Grammy,” the LSU Tigers star Flau’jae Johnson revealed her initial reaction to Lil Wayne rapping her words. The $170 million rapper gave her a bigger gift when he actually collaborated with her on her song ‘Came Out Like a Beast.’ Since the lyrical was an instant hit, the Las Vegas Aces guard Sydney Colson advised Johnson to now further her reach of credible work, and another $250 million rapper just might have given Johnson a new opportunity.
On Thursday’s episode of Best of Both Worlds with Flau’jae, Colson and an LSU-alum Theresa Plaisance encouraged Johnson to take her brand next level and collab with a former POTUS. “Right.. I would say like if we could literally choose anybody I feel like the Obamas. I don’t know if you saw him in Detroit, but he came out rapping Eminem. I’m like ‘if we had Obama coming on matching our energy…,'” TP stated.
“Oh, Obama and Flau’jae. Obama you imagine in a studio,” Colson proposed. “Yeah, Obama. We could really drop a track all of us,” TP concluded. To which Johnson agreed, “Yeah… yeah. That would be crazy.”
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The former POTUS Barrack Obama was recently seen endorsing Kamala Harris for the upcoming elections. When the rally reached Detroit, where Eminem spent a major time in his youth, the 52-year-old rapper was invited to grace the stage. In a surprise for his fans, Obama came to the fore and rapped Lose Yourself. Obama started by expressing how he was nervous about the rally before segueing into the opening lines of the lyrical.
“I gotta say, I have done a lot of rallies, so I don’t usually get nervous, but I was feeling some kind of way following Eminem,” Obama stated and then linked it with, “I notice my palms are sweaty, knees weak, arms are heavy…” lines of the song. The Honolulu-born also joked that he considered himself to be the guest star for Eminem’s performance.
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Therefore, Johnson can, in the future, fulfill her dream of releasing a song with Obama after the world saw the ex-POTUS flaunt his unknown skills, thanks to Eminem. Of course, the hip-hop community has seen her collab with Wayne, which just might pave the way for her latest dreams.
Lil Wayne pushed Flau’jae Johnson to new heights
Wayne and Johnson’s project was released in June this year as part of the EP title Best of Both Worlds. The song has an LSU theme and honors top-class athletes from the program including Shaquille O’Neal, Joe Burrow, and Angel Reese. The song resonated with the target audience and garnered a lot of views and plays on YT and Spotify, respectively. Many say that this was the reason behind Johnson’s NIL charting upwards. And she paid her gratitude to Wayne.
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“He FaceTimed me and I was like, ‘It’s Lil Wayne, oh my gosh’…I’m going crazy. He called me and was like, ‘Yeah, I did a verse. Let me know what you think. Let me know if you’re messin’ with it’… You said the verse, I don’t care what it sounds like,” Johnson recalled Carter Jr.’s words when the idea of getting together for a song came to be. The lyrical turned out to be such a hit that it was included in the NFL 2024 Songs of the Season, which is the perfect destination for songs by both emerging artists and superstars. The selected songs will be played across NFL platforms, stadiums, games, and online platforms. Hence, Johnson is on her way to making it big already.
And what better way than to collab with Obama? Maybe, while the idea is still in its nascent stage, the ex-POTUS won’t decline Johnson after hearing her banger with Lil Wayne.
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