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Eminem Beats Bully
« on: Oct 20th, 2003, 6:48pm » |
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Eminem Beats Bully
by Lia Haberman
Oct 20, 2003, 9:00 AM PT
In tossing out of court a defamation lawsuit against Eminem, the judge got jiggy wit it.
Macomb County Circuit Court Judge Deborah Servitto included a rap of her own to explain why she dismissed the suit filed by one of Marshall Mather III's former classmates.
In a footnote to the opinion issued Friday, Servitto added a 10-stanza rhyme that states in part, "It is therefore this Court’s ultimate position, that Eminem is entitled to summary disposition."
(Em's undoubtedly pleased with the decision/But should justice sound like an Idol audition?)
DeAngelo Bailey filed a $1 million lawsuit against the rapper in 2001 for damage to his reputation after Em trashed him as an bully in the track "Brain Damage" from his 1999 breakthrough album, The Slim Shady LP.
"I was harassed daily by this fat kid named DeAngelo Bailey/An eighth-grader who acted obnoxious, cause his father boxes/So every day he'd shove me into the lockers," Em rhymes on the track. "And he had me in the position to beat me into submission/He banged my head against the urinal until he broke my nose/Soaked my clothes in blood, grabbed me and choked my throat."
Arguing that Bailey was merely out to make a quick buck off the rapper, Eminem's attorney petitioned for a dismissal in July.
Servitto evidently agreed, saying, "The lyrics are stories no one would take as fact/They're an exaggeration of a childish act/Any reasonable person could clearly see/That the lyrics could only be hyperbole."
For their part, Bailey's attorneys have consistently denied that their client picked on the then young Em when the two attended fourth and sixth grade together at Dort Elementary School outside Detroit.
Instead, Bailey has accused the Grammy-winning rap superstar of ruining his chances to switch careers from sanitation worker to mega-selling musician.
After the rap-minded ruling was handed down Bailey's attorney, Byron Nolen, expressed his surprise and added, "I don't know how the court of appeals would look at something like that."
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