On the courts, professional basketball player Damian Lillard is a six-time All-Star for the Portland Trail Blazers. On the mic as Dame D.O.L.L.A., Lillard is an accomplished rapper who utilizes the thick basslines and booming 808s of his Oakland roots. He began releasing music independently in the mid-2010s and went on to collaborate with established names like Lil Wayne and Snoop Dogg, regularly delivering albums like 2019's Big D.O.L.L.A. and 2021's Different on Levels the Lord Allowed.
The Oakland-born Lillard started rhyming while in middle school, and wrote his first ver...