Concrete Boys pulled up to Genius to deconstruct their viral song “CONCRETE CYPHER.” The hot track was first released as a cypher on On The Radar, which has garnered over 5 million views on YouTube to date. It is also now featured on their compilation album It’s Us Vol. 1. Draft Day, DC2Trill, Camo!, and KARRAHBOOO dissect their parts, their names, discuss the love they have for each other, and more!
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00:00I'm Draft A.
00:01Draft A stands out because he's a good performer.
00:03I'm DC2 Trio.
00:04Drank Baby, it's not even a game like that.
00:07He really got them bars for y'all.
00:08I'm Gio.
00:09Gio, she stands out because look at her face.
00:12She's a model.
00:13She's smart.
00:14She rich.
00:15Camo, he catch on quick.
00:16He's smart.
00:17He wants it.
00:18And he got bars.
00:19This is Caribou, not the two.
00:20She's really not the two.
00:21She's probably one of the greatest people alive.
00:23She's speaking 30% of the language.
00:24She's the glue.
00:25She's the-
00:26She can speak 32 languages.
00:27Yeah, she can.
00:28Now we're lying.
00:30We love her so much.
00:31I love her.
00:32We appreciate her.
00:33She's the heart of Concrete for real.
00:34Yeah.
00:35The glue.
00:36The glue for sure.
00:37Caribou the glue.
00:38Caribou.
00:39Caribou.
00:40Caribou.
00:41Caribou.
00:42Thanks.
00:47My producer, Rob Bone, he accidentally sent me the beat without the 808's on it.
00:55And we just listening to that in the studio.
00:57We all just writing to it.
00:58We all, you know.
00:59Everybody writing it.
01:0010 hours of loop.
01:01He almost skipped over the beat.
01:02Honestly.
01:03He really skipped over.
01:04He said, nah, we can't use it.
01:05I don't got no 808's.
01:06And Bo was like, nah, run that beat back.
01:07Come on.
01:08I'll fuck with that beat.
01:09Bo literally came to us and was like-
01:10We about to do it on the radar.
01:11Let's just do it.
01:12Go on the radar.
01:13Make sure everybody have y'all verse.
01:14Figure it out.
01:15Stay in this room.
01:16You're not leaving until you get it right.
01:17Caribou didn't even do her shit that day.
01:18I tried it too many times.
01:19She probably made like eight verses.
01:20Yeah, I couldn't get it right.
01:21It was too much pressure to be able to end.
01:22So, I literally did it like the day of.
01:23When she came on the radar, that was our first time.
01:24Yeah, it was.
01:25That was our, that was a real reaction to us.
01:26We like-
01:27We were on the radar waiting for her to come back.
01:28We didn't know the 808's come in.
01:29You know, nigga, that I trapped.
01:30You're like, wait, I heard it on the radar.
01:31Switch the beat up?
01:32We didn't even know the beat had to switch.
01:33Damn.
01:34Nobody even remembered what the fuck we said on the radar.
01:35It was that new that we all did it.
01:36But, it was a great moment, though.
01:37I think we all knew it was going to be something.
01:38It was a great moment.
01:39I think we all knew it was going to be something.
01:40I got this thing where I just got to go back and just see, see how your life is, like what
02:04you got going on and seeing how it compares to what I got going on.
02:09All white body, but it's not a Lexus.
02:11A lot of people didn't catch that either.
02:12Even Boat.
02:13He hit me up maybe a couple months ago like, bro, I didn't even understand what you meant
02:17by that.
02:18I said, big body up in Texas.
02:19So, I was just like, we in a truck.
02:21Usually we ride around in black trucks.
02:22I said, it's an all white body.
02:24So this time, maybe it's a white truck.
02:26But it's not a Lexus.
02:27So, it's not a car, a Lexus, but I'm also, it's a double entendre to a Lexus Texas.
02:32So, a lot of people didn't catch that.
02:38So, it's a red beverage, purple inside a yellow Fanta.
02:45That's what makes it red.
02:46Now, it's like Cameron Reddish because the Lakers are purple and yellow.
02:49Woo.
02:50Woo.
02:51Bar.
02:52Bar.
02:53Nobody's saying stuff like that.
03:04Yeah, my name tattooed on their butt.
03:06It's like back in the day, you'll see girls walk around with the sweatpants that say like
03:10baby fat on their butt and shit like that.
03:13So, it was just a throwback to 2000s shit.
03:22You know how niggas be flexing their chains all the time.
03:24Small chains and shit like that.
03:25I held my hands up and made invisible glasses.
03:27Like, come on.
03:28Come on, bro.
03:29You still can't see that shit.
03:30That's not nothing.
03:37Fuck it up and leave it.
03:38We all got that one janky friend, right, when like they might be over your house and they
03:43break something.
03:44You know what I'm saying?
03:45And they won't say anything about it until you stumble across it one day.
03:47And you're like, what the fuck?
03:48Like, why is my speaker in the backseat of my car broken?
03:52Like, why is this not?
03:53Why is this broke?
03:54And he's the only one that was sitting back there.
03:55You got to call him and go, oh, my bad, bro.
03:57I'll pay for it, bro.
03:58I didn't mean to leave it like that.
03:59I was going to tell you.
04:00So, I'm saying treat a pussy like a janky friend who broke something.
04:03Fuck it up and leave it.
04:07She like 42, I'm just like you without the drink.
04:10Concrete diamonds, lay our chains on the ground and make a skating rink.
04:13Concrete diamonds kind of self-explanatory.
04:15I got one chain on today.
04:16She got QC.
04:18This is the Working Man logo and this is the Concrete Girl chain.
04:21We all have matching chains, so concrete diamonds, lay our chains on the ground so icy I'll make
04:26a skating rink.
04:27Feel me?
04:28My mans a slapping nigga at the war show like I'm Jada Pink and it's US in my bio like I
04:33love my country.
04:34First M loading up right now, bitch, I can feel it coming.
04:37When I talk about the Jada Pink line, that's just something we can kind of relate to.
04:40We have friends that care about us a lot.
04:42They will slap a nigga wherever we at.
04:44First thing off the bat, I can't love a gnat, it's just a gnat.
04:47My stepper can't be televised, he's known to twitch like Kastanet.
04:50Shout out Kastanet.
04:51I fuck with him.
04:52That's the bro.
04:53When I said the bar, he kind of just reached out to me after he was like, yo, your verse
04:56on the cypher was fire.
04:57He was like the first one to reach out to me.
04:59I just remember seeing him the first time at the show, at our Illoona show.
05:02Yeah.
05:03He pulled up.
05:04Yeah, it was cool.
05:05He was nice.
05:06And I'm his biggest fan.
05:07Don't care.
05:18You kind of barred up.
05:19I didn't even like, you barred up.
05:21You wasn't catching all of it?
05:22Nah, I wasn't.
05:23You barred up.
05:24Appreciate that, gang.
05:33I keep all blues like a jazz player, call me Karl Malone.
05:37Blues and jazz are very, excuse me, similar genres of music.
05:42And also Karl Malone played for the jazz in the NBA.
05:47And also, with $100 bills, the new hundreds, the blue strips.
05:50I keep all blues like a jazz player, call me Karl Malone type shit.
06:04What the hell am I going to do with a $20 bill?
06:09I don't need a whole bunch of stacks of 20s.
06:11Just give me the hundred.
06:26Anytime I go shopping, I always got a soda with me or some water.
06:31I might take a sip of my beverage and I might go in one of my favorite stores.
06:37One being A Sorrenzo.
06:38Shout out to A Sorrenzo.
06:39Take a sip of my drink and then go in there and spend a couple dollars, you know, A Sorrenzo.
06:51Real lakeside, baby.
06:52That's where I grew up at.
06:53I mean, that's where my people in Alabama, Mount Vernon, Alabama.
06:56That's where my roots at.
06:57You know what I'm saying?
06:58I do this for my family and my people.
07:02Tell me what's the word.
07:03You must not hurt.
07:04I'm storming by the man.
07:05I promise that we tied in.
07:07When shit get tough, I know the creek gon' hold me over.
07:10We started the creek.
07:11It was just me and Boat.
07:12You know, like it was just us.
07:13And then we just started growing this family where it's not even just about music.
07:17It's deeper than music.
07:18We're like real deal family.
07:20Like outside of music or if anybody's going through some shit where some of the days might
07:24be harder than others.
07:25You know, it's like we know everybody got each other's back.
07:27Every day I'm getting closer to my dreams.
07:30They running schemes but won't trick me about my spot.
07:32I earn my rank.
07:33She throwing twat in exchange for funds and fame.
07:36Your favorite rapper real life lame.
07:37The truth hurts.
07:38Charge it to the game.
07:39I'm not impressed.
07:40We're not the same.
07:41A lot of niggas' favorite rappers be real life lame.
07:44A lot of people put on a facade.
07:45This is just who we are at the end of the day.
07:47People putting on gimmicks or they're a character and shit like that.
07:51That's why I feel like people can relate to us, can connect to us so much because we just
07:53really being ourself.
08:01KV felt that bar I guess the most out of all of us in this situation so I'm going to let
08:09her break it down for y'all.
08:10I'm going to have to come back for this one because we really don't care if y'all like
08:13us or not.
08:14Okay?
08:15Because we like us and our parents like us and stuff like that and our families.
08:18To the ones who do like us, we love y'all too.
08:20Thanks for the support.
08:21It's us.
08:30R.I.P. Lordy, R.I.P. Darryl, R.I.P. all the other people, you know what I'm saying?
08:38It's a long list that we can keep going and it get hard but it's a mission we got to complete.
08:43My life in the sunshine, first you get that money then that power of the world is all
08:47mine.
08:48Yeah.
08:49Nigga.
08:50It's us.
08:51Like Tony Montana.
08:52You know like Scarface.
08:53First you get that money then that power of the world is all yours.
08:57First time I watched that movie, I know my dad put me on too.
08:59I'm just real big on movies.
09:00Like when I was a kid, they always had black books or just movies, just a whole selection
09:04of shit.
09:05That was one of those movies I remember watching.
09:06He just like told me like, yeah, I watched this as a kid.
09:09Like this is one of those ones.
09:10You know what I'm saying?
09:11Like really put me down to it.
09:20Basically what I'm trying to say here is, I'm not going to let y'all fuck.
09:24I'm not fucking with none of y'all.
09:25I'm trying to get some money.
09:26I don't need no nigga.
09:27Y'all be in the way.
09:28I walk with that sack under my arm because stacking up must.
09:30I walk with the sack under my arm because I get money.
09:32And stacking up is a must.
09:34Did I lie?
09:35Must.
09:36Underarm.
09:37Must.
09:38It's like a known thing.
09:39People be musty.
09:40Not me though.
09:41I crush the perk into the tuss.
09:42Too geeked out to fuss.
09:44Move like a boss.
09:45I'm not like, damn, they doing such and such.
09:46How do I move like a boss?
09:48I just know what I want and I do whatever I need to do to get it.
09:52And I figure shit out and I stand on business.
09:54I don't need nobody to help me.
09:56I could do it myself type vibe.
09:58Independent.
09:59I was just raised like that.
10:00Both my parents was like that.
10:01I was selling lemonade while y'all was double dutch.
10:04I used to scam.
10:05I used to trap.
10:06I never cuddled much.
10:07I had asthma so I wasn't never double dutching, but I had to find things to do because I was
10:12the only child.
10:13So I was selling Girl Scout cookies and selling lemonade.
10:16No permit.
10:17Out to the AM.
10:18Stretch my plans.
10:19I never settled much.
10:20I slipped on pimpin' once.
10:22You asked for hoes.
10:23I brought them around and you ain't flipping once.
10:25I slipped on pimpin' once because the homie had asked for hoes and I had brought them
10:29around.
10:30He ain't do nothing with them.
10:31He ain't like ... He got stiff like he didn't know what to do when the hoes had came around
10:36that he begged me to bring.
10:37Got nervous around the hoes.
10:38Yeah.
10:39So I had slipped on pimpin'.
10:40Which homie was that though?
10:41We not going to do that.
10:42Okay.
10:43Got all them guns put in your name and you ain't grip them once.
10:46He sent the money for some pints, but I ain't ship not one.
10:49You literally have all these guns and you're just gun, gun, Instagram gun, gun, gun.
10:53Can I get my fine?
10:55Why you need your fine?
10:56You're not going to use it, buddy.
10:57I'm going to tell you straight up.
10:58All them guns.
10:59How you get robbed before?
11:01It's just little stuff like that.
11:02You got all them guns, you don't do nothing with them.
11:10Caribou, my name is Kara because I care about y'all.
11:14My grandma and my grandpa, they both called me Caribou on their own.
11:18They don't even know each other like that.
11:19I just grew up on a name and I had made it my sweater name when I was in high school
11:23or some shit.
11:24I just kept it.
11:25I'm too stuck up.
11:26Just like antennas, don't let me get a signal.
11:27I'm not really a stuck up person.
11:29I feel like I'm a pretty chill vibe, nice person.
11:32But sometimes, yeah, I be feeling myself.
11:35Kara is really super humble.
11:37She'll do anything.
11:38It be the little things like that, that take care of.
11:40She can't drink room temperature water and she'll throw a fit if you don't have cold
11:44water bottles.
11:45Yeah.
11:46That's pretty much it.
11:47If stuff not organizing stuff, that's when I be acting stuck up.
11:50But other than that, I be chilling.
11:51Up late like I'm Jay Leno.
11:53I move around with Thirst Strike Criminals.
11:55Up late like I'm Jay Leno, because that's like a late night show.
11:58And I be up late rapping.
12:00I move around with Thirst Strike Criminals, not all the time.
12:02Sometimes I move around Camo, but I do got some Thirst Strike Criminals I be moving around
12:07with sometimes.
12:08And you know, it is what it is.
12:10You get the memo.
12:11Us.
12:12Got to end it with, it's us, because it is.
12:14It is.
12:15And I'm talking about y'all too.
12:16Like it's us.
12:18Draft Day is the first artist, right?
12:22You go by first round pick.
12:23It was named Draft Day.
12:24I'm the second artist.
12:25My name DC 2 Trio.
12:27Cara is caribou, not the two, but caribou with what?
12:31Three of.
12:32Okay.
12:33We got Camo 3-1, which means-
12:36Oh my God.
12:37How long you been knowing about this?
12:40He been knew that for a minute.
12:41He been talking about that for a while.
12:42You ain't never seen it?
12:43Illuminati confirmed.
12:44Wow.
12:45So what the fuck am I?
12:46Damn, that was fast.
12:47G-O, her favorite number is five.
12:49So y'all know.
12:50Clover.
12:51Five leaf clover.
12:52Hey.
12:53G-O.
12:54G-O.
12:55G-O.
12:56G-O.
12:57G-O.
12:58G-O.
12:59My favorite number is seven.