Portland Trail Blazers: 3 best songs by Damian Lillard
By Andy Quach
Damian Lillard speaks about his unique gifts on Anomaly
Everybody knows that Lillard is one-in-a-million as a basketball talent, but he has no qualms about reminding us anyways.
In his track Anomaly, Dame D.O.L.L.A lists all the reasons he’s just a little different from everybody else—including some very clever wordplay displayed in the chorus:
"“I don’t think I’m they speed (hate the way I speak my mind) Toes down, both feet (I’m four times twenty-five) I don’t see what they see (how the blind lead the blind) Boy, I’m like a safety (sitting way beyond the line)”"
Dame dropped this song after his fifth year in the league, coming off a season in which he put up a career high 27 points per game.
After being swept out of the first-round by the Golden State Warriors with Kevin Durant in tow, Lillard couldn’t help but fire off a stray with newly acquired sidekick 2 Chainz by his side:
"“Five years in the league, to say the least, have been eventful The greatest teams assembled, that ain’t really what I’m into They know so much about me, yet I’m still so suspenseful”"
Blazers fans fearing that Lillard might request to be traded to a loaded team can take solace in the truth he’s put out in his music. Hopefully that last bar is a foreshadow for the championship he’s still chasing with the Portland Trail Blazers.
Aside from that, fans of The Simpsons should enjoy a line that the rapper snuck into the last verse—alluding to the fictional store Sneed’s Feed & Seed that the comedic family has regularly patronized.
"“I shop in rhymes like the Simpsons”"
2 Chains also holds his own on the track despite two strong verses from Dame D.O.L.L.A. He did his best to keep the song clean in lieu of Lillard’s younger fans that may have found his music from their basketball fandom, but unfortunately, did drop a reference to street drugs.