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14-Year-Old DJ Michelle Could Be First Female Scratch Champion
14-year-old DJ Michelle could become the first female Scratch World Champion as she competes at the DMC World Championships in London
At just 14 years old, DJ Michelle is heading to London with a chance to make competition history at the DMC World DJ Championships. The Dubai-based turntablist enters the Scratch competition as its youngest competitor and only woman, with eliminations taking place on November 13 before the World Final at KOKO the following day. A victory would make her the first female DMC World Scratch Champion, four years after she first entered a DMC competition at just nine. Her latest attempt follows a 2025 appearance at the World Championships in Tokyo and another year competing at the highest regional level.
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DJ Michelle Started Competing Before Her Teenage Years
Michelle Rasul’s connection with DJing began through her father, Vagif “DJ Shock” Rasulov, whose practice sessions she watched while growing up in Azerbaijan. She asked for her own equipment on her fifth birthday, learned the basics from him and soon began developing her skills independently.
By nine, she was already competing through the 2021 DMC World Portablist DJ Championships, where she finished 14th among 85 entrants. The result made her one of the youngest competitors DMC had seen and began a competition history that has continued through her teenage years.
Her progress in scratching eventually took her to the DMC Middle East Scratch Championship, where she won the inaugural title in 2025 and qualified for the World Championships in Tokyo. Another regional win in 2026 earned her a second consecutive opportunity to compete internationally, this time in London.
The Scratch Championship Tests More Than a Prepared Routine
Unlike a standard DJ performance, the DMC Scratch Championship centres on turntable technique, timing and musical response. Competitors work through slow and fast elimination rounds before judges reduce the field for the final, where DJs face one another across four question-and-answer rounds.
Friday’s eliminations will decide who advances to KOKO in Camden on Saturday, November 14. The wider weekend also includes the Classic, Open and Supremacy championships, with A-Trak, Craze, Skratch Bastid, DJ KOCO, JFB and Monie Love among the established names involved.
Nine years after first asking for her own DJ equipment, DJ Michelle now enters the competition as a two-time regional champion with previous world-level experience behind her. Before any title can be won, she first has to make it through Friday’s eliminations, putting another major test between her and a place in DMC history.
