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A viral TikTok inclination helped powerfulness the breezy way backmost into the mainstream.
Kid Cudi attends Netflix's "Happy Gilmore 2" New York Premiere astatine Jazz astatine Lincoln Center connected July 21, 2025 successful New York City. Jamie McCarthy/Getty Images
A travel to Honolulu mightiness beryllium successful store for Kid Cudi, arsenic 2008’s “Maui Wowie” debuted connected the latest Billboard Hot 100 (for the week of Oct. 25) astatine No. 71, which comes 17 years aft its archetypal arrival.
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A viral TikTok trend has sparked renewed involvement successful the A Kid Named Cudi standout, which has thousands of fans hanging from thoroughfare crosswalk signs, singing on to the breezy cut.
Kid Cudi celebrated the track’s revival and illustration introduction connected Tuesday (Oct. 21) with a station to societal media.
“This is MEGA!!! Debuting #71 on the @billboard charts 17 years later,” helium penned to Instagram. “This is simply a existent illustration of timeless music. To each the fans who made this happen, I LOVE YOU!! Lets support it going yall!!!”
Last week, Cudi himself joined successful connected the trend portion dangling from a crosswalk motion successful beforehand of Progressive Field successful his hometown of Cleveland. “Goin’ backmost to Honolulu conscionable to get that/ That Maui Wowie, that Maui Wowie,” helium crooned.
A TikTok idiosyncratic by the sanction of @aaronxbrownn has wide been credited with sparking the inclination successful September. “Yeeaaaaaaaaa Thank u to everyone for posting my opus and havin amusive and showing love!!! 17 years aged and timeless,” Cudi captioned the clip of himself getting successful connected the viral trend, which has implicit 22 cardinal views.
Last week, the way debuted astatine No. 24 connected the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart and deed No. 2 connected the Bubbling Under Hot 100.
This is simply a invited astonishment for Cudi and his fans, arsenic the Ohio autochthonal explained he’d be stepping distant from music to prosecute different originative endeavors for the contiguous future. “It’s gonna beryllium a portion betwixt present and the adjacent Kid Cudi album,” helium said successful September. “So I wanted to permission you with a small thing that could motivate you, uplift you… I made it earlier this year, conscionable f—ing astir successful the studio.”
Listen to “Maui Wowie” below.