By Chloe McCloskey

With HHC Digital 004 (available any day now!) going all out to celebrate 25 years of DMC deejay dominance, we sat down with three-time DMC world champ DJ Craze and his turntable pal Klever to have a chuckle about their most embarrassing DMC moments…

DJ Craze: “One word: Spiderman. It was my first DMC nationals competition. I was 17 or 18 – I had a fro, mad pimples, crooked teeth… I looked horrible. I did the dumbest trick ever in DMC. I had two ‘Protect Ya Neck’s by Wu-Tang and it went ‘…Spiderman, Spiderman’ so I put on a mask and then I jumped on the decks and it was just horrible – and I got booed! People were like, ‘What the fuck? Boo!’ My girl saw it and was like, ‘Oh my god, you were ugly as fuck!’”

Klever: “I can tell you my worst moment – losing to fuckin’ Plus One in ’01. I still love you Plus One. I’m not bitter…”

DJ Craze: “It was kinda my fault too, I was a judge!”

Klever: “Really?”

DJ Craze: “It was on me.”

Klever: “I’m gonna kick this guy’s ass.”

DJ Craze: “You don’t remember? It was all down to me – it came down to my vote! I thought that was why you always bring that shit up? Awkward… Next question! But look at you now homie!”

Klever: “It wasn’t embarrassing, it was a let down. It was written though – I felt like the UK hasn’t had a championship deejay in like a decade, so I felt that we [the US] had held it down so he was destined to win.”