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Uh oh! Sounds like Minajesty might have waved her jeweled wand around a lil' too much at Scotland's T In The Park festival last weekend!

According to her fellow artists, Nicki Minaj was making it thunder from all sorts of shizstorm clouds!

But little did she know that The Sleeping Souls and Frank Turner would put her on Twitter blast:

You know what? Nicki Manaj can just fuck right off. n

— The Sleeping Souls (@_sleepingsouls) July 8, 2012

You can (I suppose) be a dick to your own crew, you're paying them. But everyone else? And not to mention the people out front. Ugh.

— Frank Turner (@fthc) July 8, 2012

To clarify: Nicky Minaj has been being a total selfish shithead to all the hardworking crew backstage at T. Pathetic. Fuck off.

— Frank Turner (@fthc) July 8, 2012

Damn! What did she do do piss them off that much!?!

Well, later, Frank turned to his blog to elaborate:

The central point I wanted to make, and the thing that got me pissed off in the first place, is about respect. A lot of bands (and me) spend a lot of time talking about respect for the people who listen to your music, the people in front of the stage, the "fans" (I still hate that word) or whatever, and rightly so; personally, I feel that showing up late and not apologizing is a little weak. But the thing that got to me yesterday was more about respect for a different group of people: the crew.

There are an awful lot of people who work on making shows and festivals happen who don’t get to stand in the middle of the stage and bask in anyone’s adulation. In fact, it’s the vast majority of people. This includes my crew (sound guy, guitar tech etc.), the stage hands, the promoter who books the show, and the hundreds of people who run the backstage organization, and more. These people all work their arses off, they’re there from first thing in the morning to last thing at night, and they don’t get paid as much as the musicians on the stage. Without them, nothing would get done, there would be no shows for anyone to enjoy. I couldn’t do what I do without my crew.

Running a festival is a logistical nightmare; it takes a lot of people an awful lot of time to make sure everything runs even vaguely smoothly. If there’s one person in the midst of this who has a pretty easy, highly paid job (show up, mime, go home) who refuses to do this, and thereby fucks up the day of all the hard-working, sleep-deprived, exhausted, under-appreciated festival crew, well, that pisses me off. It means everyone has to do a ton more work just to make sure that the people at the festival and all the other bands don’t have their day ruined.

For some reason, doing this when you’re holding a microphone makes you "artistic," "difficult" or maybe a "Diva." In any other walk of life it’s called being rude, selfish and inconsiderate.

Oh yeah! The crew totally deserves respect. They work their BUTTS off!!

But Nicki did tweet about feeling sick last weekend too... so we're just gonna hope this kind of shenanigans doesn't happen all the time! We all make mistakes!

[Image via FayesVision/WENN.]

from PerezHilton http://perezhilton.com/2012-07-10-nicki-minaj-slammed-and-bashed-for-diva-behavior-at-t-in-the-park