Used to describe a person when he/she is doing things in ways that are extremely out of the ordinary. This can have a negative or positive connotation, depending on context, such as describing a person who is mind-blowingly creative, or perhaps just out of control or not acting normal. In the positive light, "On some other shit" is often interchangeable with the slightly older phrase on another level. It also doubles (and originates) as a drug reference, describing a situation where a person is taking more intense drugs than usual.
Leon: "Yo, Nicki Minaj's verse on Kanye's Monster joint was on some other shit!"
Charlie: "Yeah man, she killed it!"
Leon: "Yo, dawg, what was up with you last night at that party? You was mad sloppy..."
Charlie: "Yeah, man I was on some other shit... Natalie broke up with me."
Leon: "Yo did you seeee Frankie last night?! Boy was high as a kite!"
Charlie: "Psh yeah, he must've been on some other shit or somethin..."
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.”