Nicki Minaj Says She’ll Pay Off Fans’ College Tuition If They Have Good Grades, And Here’s How People Reacted
Need some help paying your college tuition fees or student loans? Nicki Minaj can help! Seriously.
Saturday night, the award-winning rapper was on Twitter telling her fans that she would pay international airfare for contest winners (who would get to spend time with her at the Billboard music awards in Las Vegas) when a US student popped an important question: “Well you wanna pay for my tuition?” Surprisingly, Nicki not only agreed but she also extended the offer to her other fans in need! The only catch was that Minaj needed verification of 4.0 GPAs and confirmation from their schools. Throughout the evening, the rapper helped a total of 30 current and former students with their college tuition, students loans, and other education-related fees. Plus, she promised to respond to more requests from fans in a month or two!
Need some help paying your college tuition fees or student loans? Nicki Minaj can help!
Saturday night the rapper was telling her fans that she would pay international airfare for contest winners
When one fan asked if she would pay for his college tuition, and then it all started…
Minaj spent the night paying off her fan’s education-related fees as long as she got verification of 4.0 GPAs and confirmation from their schools
She helped with eveything from college tuition
To student loans
And other education-related fees
The award-winning rapper spent the whole evening helping fans
And she helped a total of 30 of them
Some of which were former students
While others were current students
With the amount of money varying for each student
We must say, Nicki was more than generous Saturday night
Plus, she promised to respond to more requests from fans in a month or two
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Exactly what I wanted to say ... I've never liked any of her songs and I don't know her much too ... But this is something that even the richest people in the world don't do ... Now I have developed a lot of respect for her !
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Are you s******g me? This is amazing. I hope all those guys do everything in their powers to have the greatest grades after this kind of help.
She is super cool!! Education's important, she choose the right way to help people
Wow. And this is a proper way of supporting fan's by taking care of their education :)
Never cared much for the music, but THIS rapper gets a bit of respect from me for this. I wish more wealthy people were this philanthropic.
I need it because of school..I love ur song and your everything omg
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This side of nickie is great and all not saying its a bad thing its just this thing just came out of nowhere like holy s**t is this random af but big props to her helping those hardworking students
Only other celeb I know, to help her fans out like this is Taylor Swift. It's nice when celebs give back to the people who supported their music over the years.
I'm a great Grandmother but I know who you are, Nicki. Let me say that I am proud of you and admire you for taking this stand and helping these young people. The ONLY way out of poverty is education and you are definitely showing the way. Good on you! Congratulations!
This is great!! I love it! I think this is the time when companies go use clever advertisement as her! There is a chance, it was just her good heart, but let's be honest at the same time: It probably did cost her less than some other clever campaigne she might've come up with. Or the marketing team behind tha name "Nicki Minaj". Again, I support these actions! But I am skeptic about whose idea it was and for what reason they acted.
I think this is great! I wish I could do more ......As it stands I owe $500 in rent & a wk late and I don't have a clue where iris going to come from...I made the mistake of using PAYDAY LOANS just to pay mo. Bills ---so-o jammed up. I'm 67 disabled and a good person ....not sure when I could pay u back.....Rent was due on the 1st. I'm a mess trying to come up with a solution .... If u know someone that could help please pass on ...thank u so very much for all u do!❣❣❣
That is a very positive stand to take, even if just once in awhile. I really respect that Nicky Minaj. And I hope you influence others too.
I hate her music and attitude, but I think this is really generous.
what about kids who didn't get 4.0? it 's not easy to get through college and work a full time job but so many have done it and not gotten the 4.0. so proud of them and of you nicki minaj!
It takes dedication to get a 4.0 AND balance your work/personal life. I think that's what she was going for.
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Awwww! ♥ I graduated with 4.3, or something like that in HUFS (Seoul), can she pay for my Master degree? *blink blink*
Btw., my compliments go to her. I'm not a fan, but now I respect her more.
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This four years later and I am in wow anyway GO QUEEN NICKI #Barbz4life
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Wow, never expected this from her. What a way to restore your image. Mad respect!
When celebrities help community more than god awful self-interested politicians #MassiverespectforNM❤️
I don't really care for her music, but she's a pretty funny actress and apparently a really awesome person. :)
I don't care if this is a publicity stunt. It's an awesome thing to do and those kids deserve it. KUDOS
I mean I've never thought much about her but if you look at something like this and say it's "just for the publicity", then you're missing the point - you can never go wrong doing a good deed.
My daughter had straight A's , and was in the Dean''s list all 5 years, graduating in the top 10% of her class at APSU for a teaching degree in Elementary Education... came out owing $35,000 in loans. She knew she'd never be able to repay them on a teachers salary so she's currently pursuing a nursing career... starting at the bottom as a CNA in a nursing home... SAD! The condition college loans leaves our children in starting out in life is pathetic!!!
I'd love to be able to do something like this too! Wow, that's so wonderful!
Agree, not my kind of music, but kindness has nothing to do with music style. Now she has my respect, for what that's worth.
Instead of attacking Nicki Minaj for advertising her generosity, why don't you people complaining actually go out and help someone for a change? I don't care if people brag about their good deeds, they're still good deeds in the end. If a celebrity brags about feeding the homeless, then that's on them but still, the homeless have been fed. It's better than being bitter online and doing absolutely nothing to help your fellowmen.
To be honest I don't follow her music, but from what I've seen mentioned about her online she does put a huge importance to education (I think I've seen a post somewhere before of her commenting how proud she is of her fans that study and that some fans even bring their grades to her) but this is just so amazing.
Playing devil's advocate here.... she's asking people for their banking info- how do they know it's really her? This is an awesome thing for her to do, but I'd think twice about it before giving out any of my info .....
This is BEYOND awesome!!! RIGHT ON NICKI! Hopefully you'll inspire a movement of rich folks to share their wealth with struggling students everywhere!
Wow. What a great gesture, Nicki Minaj. You're the best!!!!! So kind and this will make such a big difference to so many people.
Wow, great person. Tons of respect to her. I don't know her but I'm now a fan.
I love to listen to her song... N i love her too.... Im studying BSc nursing 2nd year and I l don't know if she'll help me bcz I'm from india
Dont get fulled by this. Its still with selfish intentions. Like-self advertising. Really good heart is being generous every single day. Without bragging about it or advertising it. Just because she gives LESS than 0,000000000001% of some money of hers doesn't show anything about her... how many you g people have become sluts because of her music. How many young girls are hating their parents for not buying silicon a*s, hips, boobs and face that she has bough for herself. Be careful people. People have the tendency to put on spotlight some super small generosity from narcissistic people meanwhile not even paying the smallest attention to the people that are really generous and saving lives on daily basis.. this is just sad. Bye.
Oh, did you ask for money on Twitter and not get some? I'd rather she give a small percentage of her $$ and make someone's day than to not give at all. Don't hate.
Load More Replies... I think its just a self advertising:D to make people like her more.. and think she is a good person. despite of how many kids she have turned into sluts and made themhate their body and get abgry to their parents for jot buying them silicone a*s, boobs , hips etc... Dont get blinded by small generosity... ;) Yea thats cool that she does that, but actually.. really? A really good heart doesn't need such a bragging way of showing generosity.. a really good heart does things like these on daiky basis without advertising and bragging about it.
You're absolutely right, there ARE people out there who help without advertising themselves but then again what have YOU done other than criticize people who have done some good in the world? A good deed even if it's a form of self-advertisement is still a good deed. She helped 30 people that night, those 30 people might have been struggling to pay off their tuition fee and she changed their lives. Generosity can still change a person's life even if it's on a small scale. People get annoyed by others who broadcast their altruism but nothing is more annoying than someone who points this out but does absolutely nothing helpful themselves.
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And yet some of those people took screenshots from expensive MacBooks... when they could have easily gotten a much cheaper PC with higher specs. If these people were really desperate for money (which I believe many of them were), some of them obviously need to revisit their spending and learn to be cost-effective.
But kudos to her.. It's obviously pocket-change for her, but it'll make a big difference in those people's lives. :)
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i literally knew her for her sexy HUGE ( . )( . ) and ( I ) but she definitely have a HUGE loving and generous <3... lol
I feel bad, I like some of Nicki's songs (although my friend has pointed out how rude the lyrics are) but when I first saw this post I thought it was a catch and Nicki was cheating on these students, getting money from their accounts for themselves so it surprised me to actually see she did something nice :)
shes my role model and just to see her doing this makes her more of a role model then she was
Well I can't help but respect her for offering something like that and going through with it, helping with fees I can understand the kid asking for a 2k wacom tablet got lucky though, i don't know any school that demands you to have one of those and this is coming from a UK masters student in Design (MA) and Illustration (BA).
I wonder if she has paid or is it all talk ..??? Sorry but sounds too good to be true
She paid them. I saw a picture one of them took of their bank account and college info on Tumblr. Plus it would be dumb not to, she's like a millionaire, think.
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Playing devil's advocate here ..... she is asking people for their banking info- how do they know it's really her? It's an awesome thing to do, but I'd think twice about it myself.
Here's what we need to remember (besides the fact that this was really kind and she didn't have to do it:) As wealthy as she is, she STILL is not wealthy enough to be in the 1% wealthiest. Celebrities might have more $$ that WE do, but that doesn't make them EVEN CLOSE to 1% wealthy. And 1%ers don't do this sort of philanthropic giving AT A RATE COMPARABLE TO CELEBRITIES. Meaning, if Nicki Minaj can this easily help 30 people, one 1%er could just as easily help out 3,000 people. But...they don't. Vote. VOTE VOTE VOTE. Vote for people who care about people, not ones who care about adding more zeros to their own bank balances. Vote. PLEASE VOTE.
I appreciate your sentiment but I am fairly sure she is in the top 1% of wealth.. She has a net worth of about $70 million (unverified) and the 1 % cutoff is about $9M. That being said, it doesn't take away from the fact she is giving
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Wow! She's such a BIG HELP to most of us! Thanks Nicki for you Help! Even though you slay you still care for your FANS and we all love you for that! #Mega_Love_For_THE_Black_Barbie #ILY_Queen_Nicki #Rags_To_Riches #Education_First
FANNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN FOR LIFE!!! BLESSINGS ON BLESSINGS...ALL THE WAY UP....SHOULD HAVE BEEN ALL OVER MY NEWS CHANNEL.....#NICKIMINAJ
She can't help everyone in the world. The other rich people should follow her example. :)
Load More Replies... Exactly what I wanted to say ... I've never liked any of her songs and I don't know her much too ... But this is something that even the richest people in the world don't do ... Now I have developed a lot of respect for her !
Load More Replies... Are you s******g me? This is amazing. I hope all those guys do everything in their powers to have the greatest grades after this kind of help.
She is super cool!! Education's important, she choose the right way to help people
Wow. And this is a proper way of supporting fan's by taking care of their education :)
Never cared much for the music, but THIS rapper gets a bit of respect from me for this. I wish more wealthy people were this philanthropic.
I need it because of school..I love ur song and your everything omg
Load More Replies... This side of nickie is great and all not saying its a bad thing its just this thing just came out of nowhere like holy s**t is this random af but big props to her helping those hardworking students
Only other celeb I know, to help her fans out like this is Taylor Swift. It's nice when celebs give back to the people who supported their music over the years.
I'm a great Grandmother but I know who you are, Nicki. Let me say that I am proud of you and admire you for taking this stand and helping these young people. The ONLY way out of poverty is education and you are definitely showing the way. Good on you! Congratulations!
This is great!! I love it! I think this is the time when companies go use clever advertisement as her! There is a chance, it was just her good heart, but let's be honest at the same time: It probably did cost her less than some other clever campaigne she might've come up with. Or the marketing team behind tha name "Nicki Minaj". Again, I support these actions! But I am skeptic about whose idea it was and for what reason they acted.
I think this is great! I wish I could do more ......As it stands I owe $500 in rent & a wk late and I don't have a clue where iris going to come from...I made the mistake of using PAYDAY LOANS just to pay mo. Bills ---so-o jammed up. I'm 67 disabled and a good person ....not sure when I could pay u back.....Rent was due on the 1st. I'm a mess trying to come up with a solution .... If u know someone that could help please pass on ...thank u so very much for all u do!❣❣❣
That is a very positive stand to take, even if just once in awhile. I really respect that Nicky Minaj. And I hope you influence others too.
I hate her music and attitude, but I think this is really generous.
what about kids who didn't get 4.0? it 's not easy to get through college and work a full time job but so many have done it and not gotten the 4.0. so proud of them and of you nicki minaj!
It takes dedication to get a 4.0 AND balance your work/personal life. I think that's what she was going for.
Load More Replies... Awwww! ♥ I graduated with 4.3, or something like that in HUFS (Seoul), can she pay for my Master degree? *blink blink*
Btw., my compliments go to her. I'm not a fan, but now I respect her more.
Load More Replies... This four years later and I am in wow anyway GO QUEEN NICKI #Barbz4life
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Wow, never expected this from her. What a way to restore your image. Mad respect!
When celebrities help community more than god awful self-interested politicians #MassiverespectforNM❤️
I don't really care for her music, but she's a pretty funny actress and apparently a really awesome person. :)
I don't care if this is a publicity stunt. It's an awesome thing to do and those kids deserve it. KUDOS
I mean I've never thought much about her but if you look at something like this and say it's "just for the publicity", then you're missing the point - you can never go wrong doing a good deed.
My daughter had straight A's , and was in the Dean''s list all 5 years, graduating in the top 10% of her class at APSU for a teaching degree in Elementary Education... came out owing $35,000 in loans. She knew she'd never be able to repay them on a teachers salary so she's currently pursuing a nursing career... starting at the bottom as a CNA in a nursing home... SAD! The condition college loans leaves our children in starting out in life is pathetic!!!
I'd love to be able to do something like this too! Wow, that's so wonderful!
Agree, not my kind of music, but kindness has nothing to do with music style. Now she has my respect, for what that's worth.
Instead of attacking Nicki Minaj for advertising her generosity, why don't you people complaining actually go out and help someone for a change? I don't care if people brag about their good deeds, they're still good deeds in the end. If a celebrity brags about feeding the homeless, then that's on them but still, the homeless have been fed. It's better than being bitter online and doing absolutely nothing to help your fellowmen.
To be honest I don't follow her music, but from what I've seen mentioned about her online she does put a huge importance to education (I think I've seen a post somewhere before of her commenting how proud she is of her fans that study and that some fans even bring their grades to her) but this is just so amazing.
Playing devil's advocate here.... she's asking people for their banking info- how do they know it's really her? This is an awesome thing for her to do, but I'd think twice about it before giving out any of my info .....
This is BEYOND awesome!!! RIGHT ON NICKI! Hopefully you'll inspire a movement of rich folks to share their wealth with struggling students everywhere!
Wow. What a great gesture, Nicki Minaj. You're the best!!!!! So kind and this will make such a big difference to so many people.
Wow, great person. Tons of respect to her. I don't know her but I'm now a fan.
I love to listen to her song... N i love her too.... Im studying BSc nursing 2nd year and I l don't know if she'll help me bcz I'm from india
Dont get fulled by this. Its still with selfish intentions. Like-self advertising. Really good heart is being generous every single day. Without bragging about it or advertising it. Just because she gives LESS than 0,000000000001% of some money of hers doesn't show anything about her... how many you g people have become sluts because of her music. How many young girls are hating their parents for not buying silicon a*s, hips, boobs and face that she has bough for herself. Be careful people. People have the tendency to put on spotlight some super small generosity from narcissistic people meanwhile not even paying the smallest attention to the people that are really generous and saving lives on daily basis.. this is just sad. Bye.
Oh, did you ask for money on Twitter and not get some? I'd rather she give a small percentage of her $$ and make someone's day than to not give at all. Don't hate.
Load More Replies... I think its just a self advertising:D to make people like her more.. and think she is a good person. despite of how many kids she have turned into sluts and made themhate their body and get abgry to their parents for jot buying them silicone a*s, boobs , hips etc... Dont get blinded by small generosity... ;) Yea thats cool that she does that, but actually.. really? A really good heart doesn't need such a bragging way of showing generosity.. a really good heart does things like these on daiky basis without advertising and bragging about it.
You're absolutely right, there ARE people out there who help without advertising themselves but then again what have YOU done other than criticize people who have done some good in the world? A good deed even if it's a form of self-advertisement is still a good deed. She helped 30 people that night, those 30 people might have been struggling to pay off their tuition fee and she changed their lives. Generosity can still change a person's life even if it's on a small scale. People get annoyed by others who broadcast their altruism but nothing is more annoying than someone who points this out but does absolutely nothing helpful themselves.
Load More Replies... And yet some of those people took screenshots from expensive MacBooks... when they could have easily gotten a much cheaper PC with higher specs. If these people were really desperate for money (which I believe many of them were), some of them obviously need to revisit their spending and learn to be cost-effective.
But kudos to her.. It's obviously pocket-change for her, but it'll make a big difference in those people's lives. :)
Load More Replies... i literally knew her for her sexy HUGE ( . )( . ) and ( I ) but she definitely have a HUGE loving and generous <3... lol
I feel bad, I like some of Nicki's songs (although my friend has pointed out how rude the lyrics are) but when I first saw this post I thought it was a catch and Nicki was cheating on these students, getting money from their accounts for themselves so it surprised me to actually see she did something nice :)
shes my role model and just to see her doing this makes her more of a role model then she was
Well I can't help but respect her for offering something like that and going through with it, helping with fees I can understand the kid asking for a 2k wacom tablet got lucky though, i don't know any school that demands you to have one of those and this is coming from a UK masters student in Design (MA) and Illustration (BA).
I wonder if she has paid or is it all talk ..??? Sorry but sounds too good to be true
She paid them. I saw a picture one of them took of their bank account and college info on Tumblr. Plus it would be dumb not to, she's like a millionaire, think.
Load More Replies... Playing devil's advocate here ..... she is asking people for their banking info- how do they know it's really her? It's an awesome thing to do, but I'd think twice about it myself.
Here's what we need to remember (besides the fact that this was really kind and she didn't have to do it:) As wealthy as she is, she STILL is not wealthy enough to be in the 1% wealthiest. Celebrities might have more $$ that WE do, but that doesn't make them EVEN CLOSE to 1% wealthy. And 1%ers don't do this sort of philanthropic giving AT A RATE COMPARABLE TO CELEBRITIES. Meaning, if Nicki Minaj can this easily help 30 people, one 1%er could just as easily help out 3,000 people. But...they don't. Vote. VOTE VOTE VOTE. Vote for people who care about people, not ones who care about adding more zeros to their own bank balances. Vote. PLEASE VOTE.
I appreciate your sentiment but I am fairly sure she is in the top 1% of wealth.. She has a net worth of about $70 million (unverified) and the 1 % cutoff is about $9M. That being said, it doesn't take away from the fact she is giving
Load More Replies... Wow! She's such a BIG HELP to most of us! Thanks Nicki for you Help! Even though you slay you still care for your FANS and we all love you for that! #Mega_Love_For_THE_Black_Barbie #ILY_Queen_Nicki #Rags_To_Riches #Education_First
FANNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN FOR LIFE!!! BLESSINGS ON BLESSINGS...ALL THE WAY UP....SHOULD HAVE BEEN ALL OVER MY NEWS CHANNEL.....#NICKIMINAJ
She can't help everyone in the world. The other rich people should follow her example. :)
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