this kinda means selling drugs to dudes. it really just means dealing drugs on the streets, like some upcoming rappers, before they entered the rap game they were selling drugs on the cold streets, this slang is mostly used before the get go, before they start making cash from their rap gigs.
I been selling bricks since elementary, I been making quick money before the rap shit become an option.
my daddy died but before that he was selling bricks on streets of the A, i really admired his perseverance it inspired me to rap actually
my friend got arrested for selling bricks
me and my momma been selling bricks ever since
when you're holding up your phone and making faces at it, as though you are taking a selfie, but you're really taking a picture of the person across from you or the wall or anything else that seems interesting but you don't want to be caught dead taking a picture of.
This action is often made more convincing by wiggling the eyebrows or opening the mouth, to pretend you're trying to get a Snapchat filter to work.
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.”