Did Drake and Nicki Minaj get married, or are they just using Twitter to faux-fulfill their fans’ dreams of a royal hip-hop coupling?

Young Money’s prince and princess tweeted each other on Friday afternoon (Aug. 27) about supposedly getting hitched, and their followers went into a re-tweeting frenzy when Minaj wrote, “Yes, its true. Drake and I tied the knot.”

Shortly afterward, Drake tweeted, “Please refer to @nickiminaj as Mrs. Aubrey Drake Graham and dont stare at her too long. She’s finally mine. :)”

Asked whether Drake and Minaj really did get married, a source close to both artists would neither confirm or deny the tweets, but alluded to them being a joke.

This isn’t the first time Drake has expressed marital affection for Minaj. On the track “Miss Me” off his debut album “Thank Me Later,” the Toronto rapper rhymes, “I love Nicki Minaj, I told her, I’d admit it/I hope one day we get married just to say we f***ing did it/And girl, I’m f***ing serious with it if you with it/’Cause your verses turn me on, and your pants are mighty fitted.”

Nicole is engaged to Benji’s twin brother Joel, and was stunned when she was voted one of the most powerful black women on Twitter in a website poll. Nicole, who has African American, Caucasian and Mexican heritage, took 23rd place on the list, and Benji chose to see Nicole’s title as a new way to meet women.

Shortly after she announced the news on the social networking site, Benji took to his account to beg her to set him up with some of the other women on the list.

“Now that ur 1of the 100most powerful Black Women on twitter can U get me a date w/ @Ciara or @Nickiminaj i’m over bein single (sic),” Benji wrote.

Joel was also impressed with his fiancée’s achievement. He joked that he had been aware of Nicole’s “power” for a long time as she controls his life.

“My one and only @nicolerichie is named one of the 100 most powerful black women on twitter. My life is like twitter. She runs it (sic),” he wrote.

Joel and Nicole have two children together.

Kimora Lee Simmons, Alicia Keys, Paula Abdul, Brandy, Tyra Banks, Rihanna, Jordin Sparks, Mariah Carey, Janet Jackson and Oprah Winfrey also appeared on Black Web’s list of the 100 most powerful black women on Twitter.

In the last year, Nicki Minaj has single-handedly brought female MCs back to the forefront of hip-hop music. In recognition of that, Queen Latifah, Ludacris and others break down the success behind the Harajuku Barbie.

“Now that you have someone that has her own style and does her own thing I feel like people are gravitating towards her. That’s what makes her stick out,” said rapper Ludacris, who features her on his “My Chick Bad” track off his latest “Battles of the Sexes” album.

When Nas declared hip-hop was dead a couple of years ago, it was partially because there were no femcees dominating the game, according to Queen Latifah. “Part of the reason hip-hop was dead is because there were no female MCs, like in the forefront of hip-hop, playing on the radio in the day time, every day,” she said.

Recently, Nicki Minaj has appeared on 10 songs on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart and eight on the Hot 100, including Sean Kingston’s “Dutty Love” and Jay Sean’s “2012,” which enter this week at No. 46 and No 50, respectively. She won a pair of BET awards and is up for Best New Artist at the VMAs. Her latest single, “Your Love,” has seven weeks atop the Rap charts.

Nicki Minaj’s debut album, “Pink Friday,” hits stores on November 23.

Nicki Minaj has admitted that she is not concerned whether she has featured artists on her album.

The rapper, who is currently working on her debut LP Pink Friday, said that it is more important to showcase herself as an artist than worry about who will feature on the songs.

Discussing the record with Honey, she said: “I haven’t confirmed any aritsts yet. I’ve done so many features so far that right now I want to sing myself.

“If I happen to have features on the album then I do, but I’m not going into my album thinking ‘OK, I’m going to get this this one and that one’. If it happens, it happens, and if it doesn’t it doesn’t.”

She continued: “I believe that my work is so strong for this album that whether there is a feature on there or not, it’s going to do amazing.”

The singer also claimed that there is not as much hype around her as people make out.

“People act like I have this really big buzz but I don’t see it,” she said.

“To be honest, it’s not as big as people act like it is. I have to do so much work to promote – more work than other people because people expect me to lose. They think I’m one-dimensional.”

Minaj releases her debut single ‘Your Love’ in the UK on September 20.

Similar to how Wayne doled out advice to Bow, the young rapper said he looks out for another member of the extended Young Money/ Cash Money collective: Nicki Minaj. Bow Wow, who stars in the comedy “Lottery Ticket,” almost scored the hip-hop diva a role in the summer flick.

“To be honest, Nicki was close to being [the character] ‘Nikki’ in the movie. I called Nicki and said, ‘Yo, I think you should audition for this role.’ ” Unfortunately, Bow’s bid to get Minaj some screen time was unsuccessful: The part eventually went to R&B vixen Teairra Mari. “I thought [Minaj] did good, but unfortunately you know how things don’t work out.”

Fans won’t catch Minaj on the big screen in “Lottery Ticket” but Bow Wow said a big tour featuring Weezy’s hitmaking squad will go down once Wayne comes home.

“When he gets out, we definitely plan on this Young Money/ Cash Money tour,” Bow said. “[The tour will feature] myself, Nicki, Drizzy, Wayne and the whole entire family.”