Rappers have been known to influence interest in fashion trends, alcohol brands, and luxury automobiles. This week hip-hop mogul 50 Cent added the stock exchange to the list.

In just one day, 50 Cent's promotion of the publicly traded H&H Imports, Inc. raised the company's stock price from .10 to .39 per share.

The G-Unit head urged his 3.8 million Twitter followers to invest in the company. "TVG's stock went from 5 cent to 10 in one day," 50 wrote about the subsidiary of H&H. "You can double your money right now. Just get what you can afford."

50's fans responded immediately, purchasing $50 million worth of the penny stocks. The New York rapper made $8.7 million from those exchanges.

Last October, 50 Cent received 30 million H&H shares in a private placement, the New York Post reported. Just days before encouraging his followers to purchase the stock, he premiered a joint effort with TV Goods, Inc., a set of headphones called Sleek By 50.

Using his influence to generate so much activity for a company in which he owned stock prompted some experts to speculate whether or not he may have violated insider trader laws.

Jonathan Macey, a professor of securities at Yale Law School, does not believe 50 Cent did anything wrong. "How can they call it a take if he didn't sell his stock?" Macey said in an interview with Esquire. "All he said was that it's a great company."

Let's hope Macey is right. But to be safe, 50 has since deleted from his Twitter page all of the messages.

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50 is a smart cat.

Somehow this is a form of insider/ttrading i can gurantee that. Playing the stock market is another way to rip "common people" off. 50 didnt make anyone rich with this but a bunch of suits who already got bailed out by Obama and that BS. I dont applaud the furthering of corporate greed, and cant wait till someone gets on to this being a form of insider trading. Cant wait for the whole Twitter thing to crash too, trust me, that is coming along with the end of Facebook in 2012.