Soulja Boy & Bow Wow Return to SeaWorld & Perform the Hits

Soulja Boy and Bow Wow made their triumphant return to SeaWorld.

A year after a viral performance at the same sea-centric facility, the two rappers went back down to Southern California for a July 12 show at SeaWorld San Diego’s 2025 Summer Spectacular Concert Series, where they performed songs like “Donk,” “Pretty Boy Swag,” “Crank That (Soulja Boy),” and “Use Me” in front of an energetic crowd. Watch a clip from the performance below.

News of them performing at last year’s Summer Spectacular went viral with fans joking around that Soulja can now say that he was the first rapper to perform at SeaWorld.

And they aren’t the only acts that are touching that SeaWorld stage. Every Saturday from June 21 to August 23, numerous rap, hip-hop and R&B artists are set to perform. Names like Fat Joe, Waka Flocka Flame, Trina, and Ginuwine will all be making appearances. The concert series will also double as a tour stop for the I Love the 90s Tour and The Turn Up Tour where Color Me Badd, Rob Base, Treach of Naughty by Nature, Young MC, Petey Pablo, Paul Wall, J-Kwon, and Bubba Sparxxx will also be performing.

The two teenage stars had a falling out after Soulja Boy made a video in 2008 saying that Nas killed hip-hop a couple years after the legendary Queens rapper released his eighth solo album Hip-Hop Is Dead. “The n—a who killed hip-hop for real, is Nas. He came out publicly and said, ‘hip-hop is dead,’” Soulja Boy explained in the video. “And after that, everybody started saying hip-hop is dead. If Nas would’ve never said ‘hip-hop is dead,’ then motherf–kers would’ve never thought it had died.”

Bow Wow publicly distanced himself from Soulja’s comments and the two would continue to go back and forth until they squashed their beef around 2016 when they released the joint mixtape Ignorant Sh—t.