singer Nicki Minaj has told her millions of Twitter followers she would pay university tuition fees for some of them if they can get A-grades. 34-year-old rapper agreed to donate thousands of dollars to 30 fans if they could prove they got straight A's at high school. She also promised she would pay more tuition fees in future. Ms Minaj tweeted: "Show me straight A's that I can verify with your school, and I'll pay [your college fees]." In additional tweet, she joked: "Let me make those payments tomorrow, then see if I have any money left." Soon after she posted her tweet on Twitter, she received thousands of replies. One student asked for $6,000 to pay for his accommodation, books, classes and food.
Minaj did not initially plan to pay for her fans' tuition fees. She started tweeting about contest to fly in fan from anywhere in world to join her at music awards show in Las Vegas. fan quickly asked if she would pay for his college fees and things went on from there. Nicki Minaj was born in Trinidad and raised in New York. New York Times editor suggested she was, " most influential female rapper of all time". She has sold 20 million singles worldwide as solo artist, and another 60 million singles as featured or guest artist. One Twitter user said: "She is…one of most compassionate, caring and generous people in all of entertainment industry."
