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Kimbo Slice is typical of the wrong kind of branding

By LZ Granderson
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Wednesday, April 30, 2008

Kimbo Slice gets his stupid ass kicked. That's the title of a YouTube clip that captures Slice, an MMA sensation, getting beaten down. I don't know if he's necessarily stupid, because I've never met the man, but he certainly seems to be misguided. Why else would Slice disregard all sense of honor, pride and history to project an image that can best be described as a cross between Lil' Wayne and Kunta Kinte -- a runaway slave with a mouth full of gold teeth playing up every single stereotype o ...

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