A gallon of lemonade, a humidifier, buckets of spicy fried chicken and a silverware set... Nicki Minaj demands huge rider for her and her entourage 
 
 
 
 It is a rider worthy of a music diva - such as Mariah Carey or Jennifer Lopez maybe. 
 
 
 
 But Nicki Minaj is clearly going up in the music world, if her backstage demands are anything to go by. 
 
 In a recent magazine interview, the hip-hop star revealed her rider demands not just for herself, but for her huge entourage as well. 
 
 Diva demands: Nicki Minaj has revealed her backstage rider and on the list she has asked for a gallon of lemonade, a silverware set and a humidifier - surrounded by pink and white flowers and scented candles 
 
 The usual backstage needs are all there, including flowers - two dozen pink or white roses to be precise - scented candles - must smell like baked goods - bottled water and some throat lozenges. 
 
 There is also a request for hot tea with lemon and honey, gum, bottled water and Red Bull - again, standard rider demands. 
 
 
 
 Showgirl: But Nicki says her off-stage persona is much different from the one off-stage that stays at home and cooks and watches TV 
 
 But it would also appear that Nicki and her crew are planning a lengthy stay backstage at a gig, with the food demands enough to cover breakfast and lunch. 
 
 Nicki, 29, asks for scrambled egg whites, turkey bacon, toast, Belgian waffles, strawberries, assorted juices and a large fruit platter. 
 
 For lunch she demands buckets of spicy fried chicken - no thighs, lot of wings - a large cheese platter, a deli tray filled with cold meats and a set of silverware to help shovel it all down. 
 
 NICKI MINAJ'S RIDER DEMANDS 2 dozen pink or white roses and 3 large Baked Goods scented candles 
 
 Hot Tea setup with lemon wedges, sugar and honey. Must include teacups, saucers, spoons and napkins and decaffeinated Lipton Tea bags 
 
 2 packs Halls lemon honey drops and 3 packs of Thayers Slippery Elm lozenges (three different flavors) 
 
 Contact lenses solution with case, 2 Space Heaters - VERY IMPORTANT - and a cool mist humidifier 
 
 3 packs of gum in 3 different flavours 
 
 24 bottles of Dasani Water (12 room temperature,12 on ice) 
 
 12 cans of Red Bull (6 room temp, 6 iced) 
 
 12 bottles of Martinelli's Apple Juice (6 room temp, 6 iced) 
 
 24 bottles of Snapple, 12 must be Lemon Ice Tea, 12 other assorted flavours 
 
 Singer's Saving Grace throat spray 
 
 2 large bottles of assorted fruit juices and one gallon of Simply Lemonade - please supply one small tub of clean ice and cups for drinks. 
 
 Egg Whites (scrambled hard), Turkey Bacon (fried hard), white toast (grape and strawberry jelly/jam). Belgian Waffles (syrup, powdered sugar, whipped cream, butter and strawberries on side) Enough to serve 4 people 
 
 1 Large Fruit platter with side of mango and 1 Large Cheese platter 
 
 3 twelve piece buckets of fried chicken spicy - no thighs, lots of wings 
 
 A deli tray with turkey breast meat, grilled chicken breast, whole Wheat bread or rolls, yellow mustard and other condiments (seasoned salt, hot sauce), plates, forks, spooks, knives, napkins and straws (enough for six people ) 
 
 ) Salad - Iceberg lettuce, sliced tomatoes, sliced cucumbers, green olives, Wishbone Light Italian dressing , Bumble Bee tuna in water, wheat or low Fat crackers 
 
 Carrots and Dip 
 
 Cranberries (dried) , almonds (raw- not roasted) 
 
 One set of fine silverware/stainless steel silverware 
 
 Nicki also demands contact lenses solution and case, a humidifier and two Space Heaters, which are noted, in capital letters, as being very important. 
 
 However, she will have a way to go before she reaches the rider demands of Mariah Carey, who reportedly once demanded kittens and white doves when she came to London to turn on the Christmas lights at Westfield shopping centre in 2009. 
 
 Nicki was doing an interview and photo shoot for the February and March issue of Wonderland magazine, out now. 
 
 The full interview with Nicki can be read in the new issue of Wonderland out now 
 
 And despite her diva demands, she insisted that her real life is much different to her on-stage persona. 
 
 She said: ' They’re definitely two completely different people. Obviously what I would wear at home is not what I would wear up on stage and I think, when I’m at home it’s a way more introspective character and I think the person people see on stage is anything but. 
 
 
 
 'I watch a lot of Judge Judy. And I watch a lot of Forensic Files. And I cook - I cook spaghetti really, really good; I cook macaroni and cheese really, really good; I cook chicken really, really good.' 
 
 She also admitted she has an obsession with Barbie because she doesn't just 'focus on beauty' 
 
 She added: ' I feel like Barbie is great because it doesn’t only focus on beauty - you have Barbies that work, they have tons of different jobs now. 
 
 
 
 'And they come in different shades, which I love, and different hairstyles. 
 
 
 
 'So I think that they’ve gotten to the point where they’re making girls feel like it’s OK not to look like or be like the traditional Barbie. 
 
 
 
 'Now in terms of a body image, even male action figure dolls are cut up more than the average man - it’s just how people make dolls!' 
 
 Nicki also revealed that she is a big fan of England, especially the capital city and believes she lived there in a past life. 
 
 She said: ' I was born in London in my past life, no one can tell me different. I probably was like a queen in London, I was probably the people’s queen that fought for lives... and I probably started off as a maid and then was just, like, really revolutionary and moved all my Barbies into the big queen mansion.' ||||| Click to email this to a friend (Opens in new window) 
 
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 Jennifer Lopez was in talks to perform in front of 60 million viewers at the opening ceremony of India’s Premier League cricket tournament — but the deal fell apart over diva demands from her camp. 
 
 Sources tell us the pampered pop princess’ manager, Benny Medina, had asked that a private plane be made available for her, along with numerous hotel rooms to house her huge entourage, which included an army of stylists, assistants and a personal chef. 
 
 Officials at the Pepsi IPL balked at their demands and instead booked rapper Pitbull for the opening ceremony, next Tuesday, which will also feature some of Bollywood’s biggest stars. 
 
 A source told us, “The demands made on behalf of Jennifer were outrageous. She effectively priced herself out of the event. It was an idiotic move because the audience for this event is huge. It’s like the Super Bowl halftime show. Last year it drew 56 million viewers.” 
 
 The Bronx-born beauty is famous for her demands. In 2001 she arrived for a BBC interview with a 90-person entourage and ordered nine dressing rooms for the group. 
 
 And in 2011 it was revealed that the “Jenny from the Block” star used a body double to film a Fiat commercial showing her driving around The Bronx in a subcompact car and talking about how the neighborhood “inspired” her. In fact, she never left the West Coast. 
 
 And before she filmed a music video benefiting African AIDS victims in 2010, her team submitted a backstage rider that included items such as a 45-foot trailer, white drapes, Diptyque candles, white couches, white lilies, yellow roses with a red trim, white tablecloths, and apple pie (à la mode). 
 
 This week, Lopez denied a Star magazine report that she was “demanding her boyfriend Casper Smart sign a contract to protect her image and growing empire,” with a rep calling the story “inaccurate.” 
 
 A rep for Lopez last night said the reason she didn’t perform in India was because she is busy. The rep said, “An offer was made to perform; the date conflicted with Jennifer’s current music-recording schedule for an album due this summer.”
– MIA has become quite a hot topic since she flipped the bird at the Super Bowl and the subsequent revelation that her relationship with fiancé and babydaddy Benjamin Bronfman is on the skids. So is it any surprise that the Smoking Gun, which loves to air stars' diva demands, got its hands on MIA's concert rider? Many of her requirements are fairly standard: organic food, Red Bull, dried mangoes, "sour gummy candy," "quality chocolates," and Ketel One vodka. But some are a little bit obscure (she asks for one bottle of absinthe), and then there is the truly bizarre: MIA needs three extras, females between ages 20 and 25, who have "stage presence" and can "groove to the music." Why? Because they will join her during her act, "wearing full covered burkas." For more fun, click for 14 sometimes-weird food demands contained on other celebrities' riders.