Key Takeaways:

• A TikTok meme by consumer @aaronxbrownn sparked a viral pattern utilizing Kid Cudi’s 2008 observe “Maui Wowie.”
• The tune’s renewed recognition has boosted streams and landed it on Spotify’s Viral 50 playlist.
• Cudi embraced the pattern and known as the observe “17 years old and timeless” in a TikTok publish.

Even when he’s on a self-administered “hiatus,” Kid Cudi continues to be energetic. The Cleveland rapper not too long ago took to social media to participate within the “Maui Wowie” viral pattern impressed by a tune that’s virtually 20 years previous.

“Goin’ back to Honolulu just to get that/That Maui Wowie, that Maui Wowie,” is the refrain to Cudder’s “Maui Wowie,” which appeared on his 2008 mixtape A Kid Named Cudi. The meme reportedly originated with TikTok user @aaronxbrownn. In September 2025 he posted a clip of himself hanging on to a avenue signal whereas singing the “Maui Wowie” chorus, and a brand new pattern was born.

There have since been 1000’s of movies of individuals collaborating within the problem, unwittingly soundtracked by Cudi. The basic tune caught a bump in streams and is presently on Spotify’s each day Viral 50 playlist.

And now the “Day ‘n’ Nite” rapper has joined in, posting a video of himself smiling and collaborating within the problem. “Thank u to everyone for posting my song and havin fun and showing love!!!” said Cudi in his caption. “17 years old and timeless.”

Interestingly, whereas the tune pays homage to a pressure of marijuana, Cudi informed People in August 2025 that at one level he was smoking 15 blunts a day. But, he’s in the reduction of massively on his weed smoking, after quitting for a number of months. “Now I simply get after it at evening or on the weekends when I’ve the free time and I’m simply stress-free, however I’m not smoking nowhere close to as a lot weed as I used to be smoking earlier than,” Cudi told People. “A joint lasts me all day, rattling close to. So my relationship has modified with that in a serious manner. And I’m simply extra fascinated by being sober much more and being extra current.”

Cudi simply launched his newest album, Free, his final on a serious label, this August. However, he shortly thereafter revealed that he can be taking a break from dropping music. Shortly after that, he dropped a brand new impartial observe, “Once” which he known as his “goodbye for now.”

Considering he’s collaborating in social media memes, and only recently popped out to carry out at an Adam Sandler present in Cleveland, he isn’t too distant.