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KSI recovered fame with The Sidemen and regularly appears successful their videos
YouTuber turned boxer KSI has apologised for making a racist slur successful a caller YouTube video.
The rapper, existent sanction Olajide William Olatunji, besides says helium volition beryllium taking a interruption from societal media.
He made the slur during a video with his YouTube group, The Sidemen, wherever they were playing a Countdown challenge.
From his enactment of letters, KSI created a four-letter derogatory connection for radical of Pakistani origin.
"There's nary excuse, nary substance the circumstances, I shouldn't person said it and I'm sorry," the 29-year-old tweeted.
"I've ever said to my assemblage that they shouldn't worship maine oregon enactment maine connected a pedestal due to the fact that I'm human.
"I'm not perfect, I'm gonna messiness up successful life, and lately I've been messing up a lot.
"So I've decided I'm gonna conscionable instrumentality a interruption from societal media for a while."
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Image caption,KSI and Logan Paul person gone from boxing foes to vigor portion partners
KSI recovered fame with The Sidemen and is regularly progressive successful their YouTube challenges and sketches.
The video has since been deleted from The Sidemen's societal media, and the radical person been criticised for laughing aft KSI said the slur.
Their YouTube transmission has much than 18 cardinal subscribers and KSI besides has 16.2 cardinal followers connected the platform.
It comes aft KSI featured astatine WWE's Wrestlemania this play arsenic a mascot successful a immense Prime suit - a motion to his hugely palmy vigor drink.
He was accidently enactment done a array by his erstwhile rival - and present Prime concern spouse - Logan Paul astatine the event.
Newsbeat person contacted representatives for KSI and The Sidemen.
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