The current world’s number one DJ, Hardwell, has overcome many adversities on his relatively short journey to the top of DJ Mag Top 100 DJs poll but none greater than being dropped on his head as a baby by his butterfingered mother.
Maggie van de Corput, Hardwell’s mother, admitted to dropping her son on his head “three or four times” during his early years and claims “that’s why he has such a weird looking head”.
“I’m very proud of Robbert (Hardwell), to achieve everything he has achieved after having a head that was repeatedly used as a flesh and bone ping pong ball is truly a great accomplishment,” explained a proud Mrs. Corput during a recent interview with Wunderground.
“Robbert was born with a rare genetic defect known as Jumbocraniumism,” revealed the EDM star’s mother. “His head was pretty much the same size as it is now, which is pretty big even for a fully grown man. As you can imagine this made his early years quite difficult as he was completely top heavy which made him seem like a floppy-necked, bowling ball headed freak who didn’t have the strength to stand up on his own until he was almost six years old .”
“I had to carry him a lot during his first six years, he was quite heavy and I was often quite stoned so naturally I dropped him at least three or four times,” she honestly explained. “Luckily his skull was extremely thick and robust so the only real effect to his long term health was that he turned out having a really abnormal looking head with lots of right angles on it.”
However, Mrs. van de Corput also revealed that times were not always as plain sailing for her and her young family, “For a while we thought Robbert may be permanently brain damaged from all the knocks to his head,” she continued. “He had a crayon eating phase between the ages of six and eleven during which time he rarely ever spoke, choosing to communicate through a series of grunts and moans instead.”
“Although his speech hasn’t really changed much he hardly ever eats crayons anymore,” she happily added.
“Then he turned thirteen and everything started to fall into place for him,” revealed the proud mother. “He was able to support the weight of his own head and he had also developed a talent for making shit soulless music that only actually brain damaged people could enjoy. Now he’s the best in the world at making this particular type of music and I’m the proudest mother on earth.”
According to reports the number of EDM DJs who were dropped on their heads as children could be as high as seventy five percent, which could go some way to explaining why they choose to play such pathetic childlike music during their sets.
