How weird would it be to walk into a law firm or meet your house renovator and realize the person you're working with is a former superstar musician? Those things could happen, because some former musicians have given up the limelight and now work totally normal jobs. Few rappers rose to fame as quickly as Vanilla Ice did back in 1990, when "Ice Ice Baby" was all over the radio and his album To the Extreme was number one for four months. But it's also true that few rappers have gone out of favor as quickly as Vanilla Ice did. Between acting in his own movie, to his cameo in and theme song for a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles flick, to his follow-up album that yielded no hits and didn't even chart, Ice fell hard and fast. At one point in the mid-nineties, he was left just dabbling in music while building a reputation as a competitive Jet Ski racer, before returning to the studio to make a rap-metal album aimed at the Limp Bizkit crowd.
But then Ice did something remarkable. He took some of those "Ice Ice Baby" residuals and invested in real estate. He became quite adept at buying properties, fixing them up, and reselling them at a higher value, a practice commonly known as "flipping." To the surprise of just about everyone but Ice himself, he was really good at it. He became more or less a full-time real-estate mogul and remodeling expert, creating his own company and even starring in his own reality TV series, The Vanilla Ice Project, on the DIY network. He still tours occasionally, but his hip-hop concerns take a back seat to his house-flipping responsibilities.
Watch the video to find out about more musicians who now work a normal job!
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Vanilla Ice | 0:14
Erykah Badu | 1:30
Danny Bonaduce | 2:24
Al Green | 3:26
Capital D | 4:31
Jeff "Skunk" Baxter | 5:37
Terry Chimes | 6:41
Dave Rowntree | 7:35
Kevin Jonas | 8:32
Greg Graffin | 9:27
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