Snoop Dogg 
According to Ad.Ly (a URL shortening service) CEO Arnie Gullov-Singh,  who recruits celebrities for promotional purposes, Snoop could be  making upward of $5,000 per tweet by hawking Toyota's wares over his  Twitter account. 
50 Cent 
Over the past year the rapper's promotional website/fan hub has more  than doubled its monthly traffic; analytics site Compete.com says  Thisis50.com had close to 700,000 unique visits in October of 2010. The  rapper is also notorious for his Twitter activity. 
Chamillionaire 
"I was one of the first rappers to have his own forum," says  Chamillionaire, aka Hakeem Seriki, whose Chamillionaire.com site has had  a cult following since his first album's release. "Then 50 cent made  'Thisis50.com,' and everyone made sites just like it."
Kanye West 
Since West opened his account, he's garnered over 1.5 million  followers. Interestingly enough, he isn't following any of his  followers. Narcissus would be proud. 
Soulja Boy and Fabolous 
The two rap stars battled it out over Twitter in September, trading  insults that began with tweets concerning Soulja Boy's alleged drug  possession with a groupie in a hotel room. Fabolous started a hashtag  topic, #SouljasCokeHabit, that ended up trending.
Ice-T 
The star of soundstage and screen (he's been on 
Law and Order: SVU  for close to a decade) is an avid tweeter, using his account not only  for self-promotion, but for the occasional bout of self-defense. When  singer-songwriter Aimee Mann publicly panned his acting skills in an  interview, the rapper posted an expletive-laden tweet letting her know  how he felt. 
MC Hammer 
This hip hop icon has been a staple of the tech industry for the last  few years, appearing at TechCrunch's Disrupt conference in September,  and more recently making an appearance at Web 2.0 Summit in November. In  2008 Hammer launched DanceJam.com, a site where users can upload videos  of their dancing skills, techniques and performances to be critiqued by  others. 
Jay-Z 
The 2010 Forbes 400 cover star Jay-Z has taken to his Twitter account to promote the release of his new autobiography,