When Justin Combs turned 16, his father, hip-hop mogul Sean "Diddy" Combs, gave him a $360,000 silver Maybach.

When Justin Combs decided to play football in college, UCLA gave him a $54,000 scholarship.

As UCLA confirmed this week that the recent graduate of New York's New Rochelle Iona Prep would enroll on a full athletic scholarship, some questioned if the cash-strapped school should pay for the education of the son of a man worth an estimated $475 million — and whether the 18-year-old should have accepted the offer.

Justin Combs took to Twitter to defend his scholarship.

"Regardless what the circumstances are, I put that work in!!!!" he tweeted on Wednesday. "PERIOD."

Read more in the LA Times.