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DETROIT, Dec 07, 2001 (UPI) -- Life isn't getting easier for superstar rapper Eminem. The Grammy Award-winning rap artist, whose real name is Marshall Bruce Mathers, is being sued by a childhood chum who claims he was defamed by lyrics of the song "Brain Damage." And residents of Highland Park plan a lawsuit against the Detroit suburb to block the burning of an abandoned house for a movie loosely based on the troubled rapper's life. Legal problems are nothing new for Eminem, who in the past, has been sued by his ex-wife, Kim, and his mother. This summer, Mathers, 29, pleaded guilty to illegal felony weapons possession in a plea deal to avoid facing up to five years in prison for pistol-whipping a man he saw kiss his wife in the parking lot of a Warren nightclub. The latest suit was filed Thursday by DeAngelo Bailey, the rapper's childhood friend. Bailey, a sanitation worker who wants a rap career, is suing his former grade school classmate for $1 million, claiming Eminem's song "Brain Damage" damaged his reputation. The song is on the multi-platinum "The Slim Shady LP." The Detroit Free Press printed lyrics from the song: "I was harassed daily by this fat kid named DeAngelo Bailey. An eighth-grader who acted so obnoxious, cause his father boxes. So every day he'd shove me into the lockers." Bailey denies he harassed, beat, stomped or choked Mathers or "banged my head into a urinal until he broke my nose," as the lyric says. Gay and women's groups have criticized Eminem for his often violent and homophobic lyrics. The Free Press reported that Eminem's mother had sued the Roseville school district in 1982, claiming beatings by a school bully had given her son headaches, nausea and a tendency toward antisocial behavior. The suit was dismissed. The movie starring the bad-boy rap artist has been shooting in Detroit and Warren and producers have a deal to film a burning house scene in Highland Park. However, Highland Park City Councilman Earl Wheeler Jr. told a community meeting earlier this week that the arson scene was "psychological genocide used to reduce our city to subhumans." Angry neighbors and officials say they will go to court to block the filming, which is expected to take two nights. The Detroit News said Universal Pictures had agreed to demolish the city-owned abandoned house after it was burned, demolish two additional abandoned homes, donate $2,000 to a local charity and meet with students at the community high school to explain the movie business. |
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