tsg.com MAY 21--Next week, Eminem and a former elementary school classmate are scheduled to face off in a Michigan courtroom over the superstar rapper's recorded claim that he was repeatedly terrorized by the other man when he was nine years old. In "Brain Damage," a cut from Eminem's second album, the performer named DeAngelo Bailey as his elementary school tormentor, a bully who "banged my head against the urinal 'til he broke my nose. Soaked my clothes in blood, grabbed me and choked my throat." Claiming that he was defamed by the song (and had his reputation damaged), Bailey, a sanitation worker, filed a $1 million lawsuit against Eminem (real name: Marshall Mathers) in August 2001. Eminem's defense in the Macomb County Circuit Court case--scheduled to begin May 30--is that he wrote the truth.

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