Beyonce PISSED At Mindless Behavior’s Joke About Lauryn Hill At BET Awards…

I think everyone was all surprised when Mindless Behavior took a jab at Lauryn Hill right before announcing the nominees for Best R&B Artist during last night’s 2012 BET Awards.

Bey was so upset, she changed her acceptance speech (on the fly) to HONOR the former Fugee.

So let’s start with The Diss — Comedian Mike Epps and the group Mindless Behavior were co-presenting the award for Best R&B Artist when Mike jokingly tried to sing.

One of the members of the group quipped, “You sing BAD … like Lauryn Hill’s tax accountant bad.”

The diss drew gasps from the crowd … and pissed off Beyonce, who ultimately WON the award that was being presented.

But TMZ has learned … B was so upset, she scrapped the speech she had prepared and defended Lauryn’s honor instead … saying, “I want to thank all the talented R&B women that came before me like Lauryn Hill and Mary J. Blige.”

When B walked off stage, there was a woman waiting for her — possibly a BET handler — and B began to vent about the insult, saying the Lauryn Hill diss was “disrespectful” and “not cool.”

The woman complimented Beyonce for adding Lauryn Hill’s name to her acceptance speech … to which Beyonce replied, “I just felt [the diss] was wrong.”   

Beyonce is such a woman of class and continues to show it each day. CHAI i just love her

Peep the footage below of the tacky joke:

Anyways Mindless Behavior have called into 106 & Park and Ray Ray apologized for disrespecting Hill saying he respects Lauryn Hill and didn’t mean any harm.

So glad the boys took responsibility for their actions.