Shaquille O’Neal—aka DJ Diesel—who plays WTR in Tampa, Florida on July 24, 2021. Credit: Tomorrowland/YouTube
From joining the sheriff’s department to selling car insurance, there’s seemingly nothing 15-time NBA All-Star and three-time NBA Finals MVP Shaquille O’Neal can’t do, including EDM.

DJ Diesel’s influence in the world of dance music is growing to be as outsized as his physical body, and DJ Diesel is coming back to Tampa after playing WTR Pool on the Courtney Campbell Causeway last summer.

WTR will host the 49-year-old once again on Sunday, March 13 as part of the “Pool Party Sundays” series at the waterfront party hub. Also coming to WTR—located at 7700 W Courtney Campbell Causeway—this month are MTV’s Nick Cannon and “Big Empire” star Kim Lee (who play the “Rosé All Day” party on March 5 and March 26, respectively).

Other DJs coming to WTR include Meduza, Juicy M, Charly Jordan, Deux Twins, Cat Dealers and Bad Boy Bill. More info and tickets to all the events are available via wtrpool.com.

This article appears in Feb 17-23, 2022.

Read his 2016 intro letter and disclosures from 2022 and 2021. Ray Roa started freelancing for Creative Loafing Tampa in January 2011 and was hired as music editor in August 2016. He became Editor-In-Chief...