What is Smoking On That X Pack?

It is a snowclone catchphrase from Chicago drill music used to disrespect people after their death or public downfall, formed by dropping a target's name into the "X" slot; early drill tracks like Chief Keef's "Off The Tooka" set the tone.

Where did Smoking On That X Pack come from?

It grew out of the Chicago drill rap feud between the Gangster Disciples and the Black Disciples in the early 2010s, with early prominent uses on RondoNumbaNine's 2013 remix of "Hang With Me".

What does Smoking On That X Pack mean?

In drill slang, "smoking" someone means killing them and a "pack" refers to the body, so the phrase indirectly says the speaker is happy the person is dead. A "pack" also refers to strong marijuana in wider slang, which gives the line a double meaning.

Is Smoking On That X Pack still popular?

The catchphrase hit peak mainstream visibility in April 2021 during the Derek Chauvin conviction, with online usage cooling since then but the template still surfacing after high-profile deaths.

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Q: How do you use Smoking On That X Pack?

People drop the target's name into the "X" slot after news of a death, arrest, or public disgrace, often as a Twitter reply under an old post from the person being mocked, echoing the drill-scene practice of dissing rival gang members.

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Published August 11, 2026

Smoking On That X Pack is a Chicago drill catchphrase used to disrespect someone after their death, arrest, or public downfall, formed by swapping the target's name into the X slot. It grew from gang slang around the 2011 killing of Tooka Gregory and became a widely used Twitter reply during a run of high-profile deaths in 2020.

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Overview

"Smoking On That X Pack" is a snowclone catchphrase where users swap in the name of whoever is being mocked, typically after that person's death, arrest, or public downfall3. The line came out of Chicago drill culture, where "smoking" someone means killing them and a "pack" refers to the body.

The template also carries a weed meaning, since a "pack" is slang for a large quantity of strong marijuana, which lets some posts play the ambiguity both ways. Chief Keef's 2015 track "Off The Tooka" is one of the loudest early drill songs to use the pack shorthand5, establishing the format inside hip-hop years before it broke into wider internet slang.

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Origin & Background

Platform

Chicago drill rap / Twitter (viral spread)

Date

2013

The slang traces to the Chicago gang feud between the Gangster Disciples and the Black Disciples that shaped much of early-2010s drill music1. On January 12, 2011, Shondale "Tooka" Gregory, a Gangster Disciples member, was shot and killed at a bus stop by rivals aligned with Chief Keef's Black Disciples3. Rappers on gangs opposing Tooka's turned his name into a running diss, most notably on RondoNumbaNine's 2013 remix of "Hang With Me," a track that flipped P.Rico's original lighthearted single into a Bricksquad-aimed threat and set off a string of response remixes between the two crews1.

How It Spread

Variations of the "X pack" line drifted around social media through the mid-2010s but broke into wider Twitter use starting in 2020. Ethan Peters, a 17-year-old makeup influencer known online as Ethanisupreme, died of a suspected drug overdose on September 6, 20202. His death set off a flood of "smoking that Ethan pack" and "RIP Bozo" replies to his June tweet mocking rapper XXXTENTACION's earlier death, welding two disrespect memes into one3.

The catchphrase reached wider mainstream visibility on April 20, 2021, when Derek Chauvin was convicted on all three counts in the murder trial of George Floyd4. Rapper Meek Mill tweeted "Y'all smoking on the Derek chauvin pack for 4/20 or nah???" to tens of thousands of likes6, timing the line to both the guilty verdict and the annual 4/20 marijuana celebration.

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How to Use This Meme

Users typically drop the target's name into the "X" slot after news of a death, arrest, or public disgrace, often as a Twitter reply under an old post from the person being mocked. The line commonly runs with a cigarette or blunt emoji, and posters sometimes pair it with "RIP Bozo" to double up the disrespect.