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Nicki Minaj has been accused of assault by a former employee. In a lawsuit obtained by TMZ and Billboard, plaintiff Brandon Garrett alleges that Minaj hit him backstage at a Detroit venue while he was working as a day-to-day manager for her Pink Friday 2 tour. According to Garrett, Minaj summoned him to her dressing room after learning that he had sent another tour employee in his place to go pick up prescriptions for her. Allegedly, the rapper “angrily screamed” that if her husband were there, he would’ve knocked Garrett’s teeth out. She allegedly also called Garrett a “dead man walking,” telling him that he “just f—ed up [his] whole life,” and that she would “make sure” that…