Kid Cudi's "Maui Wowie" has reached the Billboard Hot 100 seventeen years after its release.
The song from the rapper's 2008 mixtape, A Kid Named Cudi, debuted on the latest Billboard Hot 100 chart dated October 25 at No. 71.
The song is a tribute to a cannabis strain from Hawaii, which it is named after. It gained renewed popularity in the fall of 2025 when it went viral on the video-sharing app TikTok and became popular on streaming platforms, including Spotify.
On September 5, a TikTok user posted a video of himself hanging from a crosswalk sign while lip-syncing lyrics from the song's chorus: "Goin' back to Honolulu just to get that / That Maui Wowie, that Maui Wowie."
The clip ignited a trend of people singing these lyrics as they are dangling from street signs, traffic lights and infrastructure. The song significantly increased in streaming as a result, and entered Spotify's daily songs chart at No. 98 and the Viral 50 in October.
Cudi showed appreciation and also participated in the trend, with a video of himself hanging from a traffic light.
Celebrating the song's renewed popularity, Cudi wrote on Instagram, "This is MEGA!!! Debuting #71 on the @billboard charts 17 years later. This is a true example of timeless music. To all the fans who made this happen, I LOVE YOU!! Lets keep it going yall!!!"
"Maui Wowie" made its maiden entry on the chart a week after it debuted at No. 24 on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart and at No. 2 on the Bubbling Under Hot 100.
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