RJD2 is an amazing DJ and music producer. He started out in 1993 with a pair of turntables he bought from a friend, and his career took off from there. He's often seen as a hidden talent, as not many people are familiar with his work. Though underrated, he's fantastic at what he does. He's composed three solo albums (despite the various collaborations he's done with a slew of artists), each of them unique in their own way. His third album, The Third Hand, is arguably seen as the turning point in his career, where he abandoned most of the sample-based tracks and went on to writing and singing his own music.
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.”