A word often used by female rapper Cardi B. Used to express joy when she has achieved another accomplishment (which is often) or whenever someone shows love and support to her.
Every day she goes on the social media app Twitter and makes a tweet with the word while she ignores BardiGang asking for her to follow them, logs off of the app and goes back to watching a Turkish show she will later tweet about.
@bardiupdatess: Cardi debuted top 5 in the UK for the first time in her career with an explicit female rap collab.
The grindset is a contemporary ideology of self-exploitation disguised as strength, deeply tied to the aesthetics of the “sigma male” and to new digital forms of patriarchy. It promotes the idea that human worth depends on productivity, economic success, absolute emotional control, and the ability to work endlessly, turning vulnerability, rest, community, and tenderness into signs of weakness. Beneath its rhetoric of discipline and power often lies a profound inability to relate healthily to pain, fragility, and human interdependence.
“That’s the grindset, brother. While weak men sleep and complain, sigma males stay disciplined, work in silence, suppress emotions, and build power while everyone else wastes time chasing comfort.”