60 Facts About KSI

KSI is a co-founder and member of the British YouTube group known as the Sidemen.

KSI is the CEO of Misfits Boxing and the co-owner of Prime Hydration, XIX Vodka and a restaurant chain known as Sides.

KSI registered his main YouTube account in 2009 and built a following posting gaming commentary videos of the FIFA video game series.

KSI has achieved fourteen top 40 singles on the UK Singles Chart, seven of them ending up in the Top 10 and five of them ending up in the Top 5.

KSI was involved in two further boxing events against American YouTuber Logan Paul, the second of which was a professional bout.

KSI was educated at Berkhamsted School in Berkhamsted, where he met future collaborator and Sidemen member Simon Minter.

KSI registered his first account on YouTube under the username "JideJunior" in 2008 while in his early teens.

KSI dropped out of sixth form college to pursue his YouTube career once he was earning steady monthly revenue from his uploads.

KSI later uploaded more vlog-style content and played a variety of games and in 2012, the channel reached a million subscribers.

In October 2013, KSI signed with Maker Studios' sub-network, Polaris.

Since 19 October 2013, KSI has been part of the British YouTube group known as the Sidemen.

In 2015, KSI published a biography titled KSI: I Am a Bellend.

The book was released on 24 September 2015 in the UK and five days later in the United States, and KSI toured to support the book from its release until 4 October 2015.

On 4 August 2017, KSI tweeted that he would be leaving the Sidemen, citing conflicts with fellow member, Ethan Payne.

Later that month, KSI released a video in which he claimed that he was being deported from the United States for receiving an incorrect visa.

In 2020, The Times named KSI to be Britain's biggest influencer.

On 29 April 2016, KSI released "Goes Off", featuring Mista Silva, as the first single from his second EP titled Jump Around.

On 23 June 2017, KSI independently released "Creature", which reached number 100 on the UK Singles Chart.

One week before its release, KSI announced that the EP would be his "final release" with Island Records and that he would be releasing music independently.

On 2 February 2018, KSI released "Uncontrollable", featuring Big Zuu.

The song played during KSI's ring walk for his boxing fight against Joe Weller and charted at number 89 on the UK Singles Chart.

KSI released "On Point" on 17 August 2018, which was played during his ring walk for his second boxing bout.

On 12 April 2019, KSI released a collaborative album with Randolph titled New Age.

On 4 November 2019, it was announced that KSI had signed with RBC Records and BMG to "take [his] music to the next level" and "further develop his music career in the US and internationally".

That day, it was confirmed that KSI had already started recording his debut studio album.

KSI was scheduled to perform at Parklife, Longitude and Reading and Leeds music festivals in 2020 to promote Dissimulation, but these were later cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

KSI featured on "Lighter" by British DJ and record producer Nathan Dawe.

KSI featured on "Loose" by Zimbabwean-British artist S1mba, which peaked at number 14 on the UK Singles Chart.

On 23 October 2020, KSI released the first single from his second album, "Really Love" featuring Craig David and Digital Farm Animals, which peaked at number three on the UK Singles Chart and has been certified gold by the BPI.

On 15 January 2021, KSI released the album's second single, "Don't Play" with Anne-Marie and Digital Farm Animals.

On 12 March 2021, KSI released the album's third single, "Patience" featuring Yungblud and Polo G, which debuted at number 3 on the UK Singles Chart and has been certified silver by the BPI.

On 16 February 2021, KSI announced on Twitter the creation of his own record label named "The Online Takeover" in partnership with his music manager Mams Taylor.

On 26 April 2021, KSI announced via his social media the release of his second album All Over the Place, which was released on 16 July 2021.

On 18 June 2021, KSI released the album's fourth single, "Holiday", which was only featured on the platinum edition of the album.

On 6 August 2021, KSI released the album's fifth single, "Lose" with American rapper Lil Wayne, and was the lead single for the deluxe edition of the album, which was released on 27 August.

On 6 May 2022, KSI featured on "Locked Out" by S-X.

On 27 January 2023, KSI released "Voices" featuring Oliver Tree.

KSI expressed his respect for Weller after the fight for being "way harder, way tougher than I thought," and praised him for his commitment to raising awareness for mental health, before calling out American YouTuber Logan Paul, his brother Jake Paul, and retired footballer Rio Ferdinand.

On 24 February 2018, it was announced that KSI would be fighting Logan Paul in a white-collar boxing amateur boxing match.

KSI defeated Swarmz via 2nd round KO and won the vacant MF cruiserweight title.

KSI then defeated Alcaraz Pineda via 3rd round KO and retained his MF cruiserweight title.

KSI originally defeated Fournier via 2nd round KO and retained his MF cruiserweight title, however controversy arose after replays showed KSI landing an illegal elbow strike during the finishing sequence.

On 22 June 2021, KSI announced that he and Wasserman Promotions had partnered up to launch a boxing promotional company titled "Misfits Boxing".

The first event was scheduled to take place on 27 August 2022 with KSI set to make his boxing return as the main event.

In 2018 KSI released a documentary film titled KSI: Can't Lose.

The film reveals the behind the scenes of what led KSI to become the YouTube champion of the world after his boxing debut fight against fellow YouTube star Joe Weller, and how KSI will use what he learned to fight Logan Paul.

In 2016 KSI teamed up with Endemol Shine Group to publish KSI Unleashed, a video game that launched on iOS and Android systems.

KSI Unleashed was removed from the Google Play Store and App Store on an unknown date.

In 2018, KSI took part in the promotional efforts for EA Sports UFC 3 by training alongside former UFC middleweight world champion Michael Bisping.

In January 2022, KSI announced that he and Logan Paul had founded a drinks company known as Prime.

On 1 April 2023, KSI made an appearance at WWE's flagship event, WrestleMania 39, during the match between Logan Paul and Seth "Freakin" Rollins.

KSI accompanied Paul during his entrance wearing a Prime bottle costume and interfered in the match, but was frog splashed by Paul after Rollins quickly switched himself with KSI.

KSI later apologised on Twitter and announced he was taking a break from social media.

KSI then visited the Al-Hikam Institute, a mosque in Bradford, to "educate himself" and where he apologised again for the hurt and disappointment he had caused.

KSI is a supporter of Arsenal FC In his "Googling Myself" video, KSI revealed that he is agnostic.

Forbes reported that KSI was contracted to earn a minimum amount of $900,000 from his second fight against Logan Paul in 2019.

In 2015, KSI donated $10,000 to an online charity stream done by YouTuber Castro1021, and he participated in the Race Against Slime event, raising money for SpecialEffect, a foundation developing technology to aid people with physical disabilities to play video games.

On 8 May 2020, KSI helped out at a food bank to support The Independent's Help the Hungry campaign.

On 18 December 2020, KSI prepared meals to support the Evening Standard's Food for London Now campaign.

On 30 March 2021, it was announced that KSI had signed an open letter, written by Lenny Henry, to urge Black British people to take the COVID-19 vaccine.