Concreature

Noun. Popularized by Detroit rapper Boldy James, "concreature" combines the words "con," "concrete," and "creature" to emphasize the lowest state of existence (literally being criminal--"con" or "convict," base level--"concrete," and being a "creature" --not even resembling a wild animal).

This portmanteau is self explanatory, but carries many negative connotations in its use. "Con" represents being an actual criminal. "Concrete" literally conveys being on concrete or gravel, similar to an unwanted weed growing in the cracks of the sidewalk or a drug dealer making sales on his assigned corner. It also represents literal ground level.

"Creature" not only represents something that is sub-human, but it also represents something that is literally created through the circumstances of its existence.

A "concreature" represents the lowest level of existence that was created by an inequitable society that allowed an entire city to rot and fail due to racism, classicism, unfettered capitalism, crime, and political corruption.

Concreature: "We got the drug-free school zone high."

Average person: "You're a grimy ass concreature."

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concreature

A person who does concreting for a job, they are usually skinny and covered in sores due to the chemicals in cement. They look quite shabby in the mornings and are not well dressed always sunburnt, their diet consists of mainly Bongs and iced coffee.

Have a look at the concreatures over there

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Concreature

Noun: a person whose home is the city and was born and raised in the city. Someone who feels at home in the concrete jungle where everyone is anonymous. It reminded me of the text by Sara Ahmed: “Who Knows? Knowing Strangers and Strangerness’’ I have read while doing research on empathy. She says that anthropology allows the stranger to be familiar in its very strangerness. This is a really interesting sentence to me, especially the being familiar in its very strangeness part. Sometimes it feels good to be a stranger and be unfamiliar in a certain environment. To me, this feeling mostly occurs in the city, where people mostly are very anonymous and where people don’t know each other. You walk past so many different people, but you won’t ever get to know them. I know a lot of people that love this feeling of being anonymous and being a stranger in a huge population of a city. I would call these people concreatures, because their familiar environment is a place where they are a stranger to everyone around them and vice versa. These people are most of the time born in this concrete jungle, so they have conditioned themselves to this place and the people that are living in this place.

"Damn, you don't know everyone in your street? You’re such a concreature!"