Written by: SIR HEIST
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13. Jennifer Hudson
Before millions of fans discovered her powerful voice, Jennifer Hudson was flipping burgers at Burger King.
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12. EVE
Eve found her claim to fame when she was signed to Ruff Ryders, but she also worked the pole as a stripper prior to her stardom.
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11. Beyonce
Beyonce worked at her mother Tina’s hair salon and swept up hair.
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10. Mariah Carey
Mariah Carey paid her dues a long time ago, even before earning 36 Grammy nominations. Mimi worked as a waitress, club coat check girl and even as a beauty salon hair sweeper – just like Beyonce.
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9. Diddy
Long before he was Puff Daddy, P. Diddy or simply just Diddy, Sean Combs was scrubbing toilets at a Mexican restaurant named El Torito. Now we can’t even imagine how long it’s been since he’s had to clean his own toilet.
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8. J. Cole
Even though J. Cole can afford to fix his “Crooked Smile” nowadays, he used to seek those funds working at a call center as a bill collector.
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7. Nicki Minaj
Nicki Minaj was serving dinner to folks at Red Lobster before she began a career of serving raps to her cult-like “Barbz”. Damn, does she have a nice rack or what?
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6. Channing Tatum
Channing Tatum had prior experience before his acting role in the movie Magic Mike. The hollywood superstar was once a male stripper.
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5. Notorious B.I.G.
The lyrics “Don’t be mad, UPS is hiring” was inspired by his quitting UPS to chase his rap dreams
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4. Kanye West
Kanye West was employed by The Gap clothing company as a sales assistant.

The top three most surprising former jobs of famous celebrities come from South Florida natives:

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3. Trick Daddy
He always said “Trick love the kids!”, but apparently there is more truth to that lyric after all. Trick Daddy used to serve up magic tricks at children’s birthday parties as a magician. Who would have known?
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2. Plies
Plies hasn’t always been a pretend “goon” writing raps about his brothers life. After being named Valedictorian at his high school in Florida, Algernod Lanier Washington worked at Mayfield hospital as a Registered Nurse.
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1. Rick Ross
As you all may know, we at KeepItTRILL were the ones who first leaked the infamous photo of Rick Ross wearing his corrections officer uniform. The self proclaimed “boss” sure has come a long way from his $25k annual salary job with the Florida Department of Corrections.