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When Damian Lillard finishes his daily hoop duties for the Portland Trailblazers, he will spend most of his downtime inside the NBA bubble working on his other passion: music.
The All-Star point guard turned part of his suite into a mini-recording studio at Disney’s Wide World of Sports Complex, where his team will seek a playoff spot. The league built a social bubble to resume the NBA season and protect 22 teams from COVID-19 while at the resort, which features various activities like walking trails, a bowling alley, and a lake for fishing or boating.
In this March 7 file photo, Portland Trail Blazers guard Damian Lillard, center, shoots during the first half of an NBA basketball game in Portland, Oregon. (AP Photo / Steve Dipaola, File)
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But under his rap character Dame DOLLA, Lillard hopes to focus his attention on laying courts when he’s not busy with basketball. He strives to make his rap character as well-known as his professional basketball identity, such as Emmy-winning actor Donald Glover who won multiple Grammys under his alter ego Childish Gambino.
“That is the point I want to get to,” he said. “I admire him for how he has established himself in two different lanes. People respect him in every lane. That is my goal.”
Lillard’s room is equipped with a microphone placed on a stand, headphones, a laptop with recording software and an audio interface to control everything. She said the thick carpet in her room should help sound quality.
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He said the setup is “simple”, but that it’s good enough to create music in a room where it can be isolated.
“I saw people saying that there would be complaints that he was recording music, but I don’t have speakers. Everything is in the headphones speakers, ”he said. “I’m hitting out loud, but not screaming at full speed. No one is going to hear me rap. “
Lillard has earned respect in the hip-hop world as a socially conscious lyricist like Dame DOLLA, which stands for Different Levels on which the Lord allows. She has recorded songs with some of the biggest names in the music industry, including Lil Wayne, 2 Chainz, and Jamie Foxx. She also performed with Wayne during the NBA All-Star weekend earlier this year.
Last month, Lillard released “Goat Spirit” with Raphael Saadiq and the powerful “Blacklist,” a song that addresses the police brutality of unarmed blacks. It’s a song he felt compelled to release after the murder of George Floyd, who died after a Minneapolis police officer pressed a knee to his neck for several minutes.
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Once the NBA season restarts, Lillard will have the words “How many more?” sewn on your jersey. He said that he does not consider himself an activist, but that he wants to express his feelings about the good and negative issues that affect his community.
That’s what also prompted Lillard to release his new song and music video “Home Team” on Friday. The song pays tribute to his family and closest friends that he financially helped start their business journey.
“They do all of these things and those are the things that I’m investing in to make my people deeper and stronger,” Lillard said of his friends who have become a businessman, chef, maintenance staff and even a farmer. . “It is not an entourage of people who get together with me, because I am an NBA player. It is my strong circle.
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