Megan Thee Stallion is giving $10,000 scholarships to women of color

Megan Thee Stallion launched the Don’t Stop Scholarship fund for women of color who are pursuing a degree in any field.

The $10,000 scholarship is named after Megan’s latest single “Don’t Stop” which features Young Thug. Students are encouraged all over the world to apply for the scholarship. The website with the application mentions how this is in honor of all the young women out there who do not stop working hard for their education.

The application website also reads, “Women remain underrepresented and undervalued in society; and female students of color are at a larger disadvantage when it comes to access to financial resources.”

The website also mentions how Megan is a college student herself and incredibly passionate about the transformative power of education. She remains a strong advocate for women who are pursuing a college degree.

Students would have to submit their names, school, field of study, year of study, and a personal essay. The website had crashed when the rapper shared the link on her social media handle. However, it is still up and running.

The rapper informed her followers that the essay for the scholarship should be about them and what they are majoring in and also why they need the degree. She wrote, “Doesn’t matter how many words or pages just do your best hotties !”

The WAP singer had opened up about her passion for education and caregiving on The Tonight Show With Jimmy Fallon earlier in the year. She is currently a senior majoring in healthcare administration at Texas Southern University.

Megan’s Passion For Education

She told host Jimmy that she found something she was passionate about because she had a connection to it. The rapper shared, “I watched my grandmother take care of my great-grandmother, and I’m like, ‘They need help.’ … So I really want to open up a facility — assisted facility — because I know I can’t be the only person where my family members are taking care of each other.”

Megan explained that she wants her classmates their jobs that they need when they first get out of college. She explains that she wants that because people don’t give jobs because of a lack of experience. The rapper further said, “But if you don’t give me the job, then how am I gonna get the experience?”

The scholarship was created in partnership with Amazon Music. The Don’t Scholarship arrives just a week after Megan released her new song with the same name. She had performed the song on Saturday Night Live.

She took to her Instagram and wrote, “COLLEGE HOTTIES LISTEN UP BECAUSE THIS ONE IS FOR YOU ‼️‼️‼️”

Recently, Tory Lanez was charged for shooting Megan. One day after posting a photo of her gunshot wound on Instagram, Megan returned with a fiery Instagram Live to publicly reveal for the first time that it was rapper Tory Lanez who shot her in the foot.

Megan, Tory, his bodyguard, and Megan’s close friend Kelsey Nicole had attended a party at Kylie Jenner’s Hollywood home on July 12. The four were pulled over by police after a report of gunfire outside a second residence.

“I’m Incredibly Grateful To Be Alive”

While initial reports said Megan had cut her feet on broken glass inside the car, she later claimed she was shot. It’s been a little over a month since Megan broke her silence on what occurred that morning she was shot in the foot. On July 13, Lanez was arrested on a gun charge for possessing a concealed firearm. While she didn’t reveal any names involved in the incident, many speculated the gunman to be Lanez, whom she was in a vehicle with at the time.

Later that week, Megan publicly revealed for the first time that she had been shot. She has slowly revealed more in several social media posts since it happened. Usually in response to what she said were false stories spreading.

“I’m incredibly grateful to be alive and that I’m expected to make a full recovery, but it was important for me to clarify the details about this traumatic experience,” she wrote in a note posted to her Instagram days later. “I’m currently focused on my recovery, so I can return back to my life and back to making music as soon as possible.”

The singer consistently declined to name Tory, whose real name is Daystar Peterson, until Thursday night, when she tweeted, “Lie one more time and ima quit sparing you.”

The tweet was presumably in response to sources telling the LA Times that Megan “was displaying an injury at the scene consistent with her being struck by shattered glass.”

“Yes … Tory Shot Me”

Frustrated with the alleged false reports, Megan reached her breaking point. The rapper took to her Instagram Live to finally clear the air and confirmed that it was Lanez who pulled the trigger.

“Yes … Tory shot me. You shot me, and you got your publicist and your people going to these blogs lying and s—. Stop lying,” she said during Instagram Live. “Why lie? I don’t understand. I tried to keep the situation off the internet, but you’re dragging it.”

According to the rapper, there were four people in the car with her, including her friend, Tory, and his bodyguard. All four passengers were in the middle of a heated argument when Megan, who was in the front seat, decided to leave the car. Tory, who she says was in the backseat, started shooting at her. The Houston rapper even denied rumors that she had physically assaulted Lanez prior to getting wounded and claimed their argument had nothing to do with Tory’s alleged interest in Kylie Jenner.

“I never hit you. M************ was like, ‘Oh she’s mad ’cause he’s trying to f*** with Kylie Jenner.’ No, I wasn’t,” she continued. “You shot me! I didn’t get cut by no glass,” she said.

Meg then explained why she initially didn’t identify Lanez as the shooter once police arrived.

“The police come, I’m scared. All this shit going on with the police?” Megan explained saying she chose not to tell the police what really happened, out of fear of them escalating the situation further. Especially given the current climate of incessant police violence against Black people.

“I didn’t tell the police immediately what happened right there because I didn’t want to die,” she added, responding to those who believed she lied about her foot injuries.

“It Was Super Scary”

Meg also pointed out that the responding officers were very aggressive. “You think I’m bout to tell the police that we, n***as, us black people, got a gun in the car? You want me to tell the law we got a gun in the car so they can shoot all of us up?”

In her previous statements, Megan has discussed how horrifying it was to get surgery for two gunshot wounds. “I was shot in both of my feet, and I had to get surgery to get the shit taken out, get the bullets taken out, and it was super scary,” she said in a statement last month.

She added: “It was super scary, it was just the worst experience of my life, and it’s not funny. It’s nothing to joke about and it’s nothing for y’all to go and be making fake stories about. I didn’t put my hands on nobody. I didn’t deserve to get shot.”

The “Savage” singer had shared two since-deleted photos on Instagram of her wounds.