No Eminem suit for school bully

A man who admits picking on Eminem when they were schoolmates cannot sue the rapper over a song that depicts his bullying as a brain-jarring attack, a Michigan state appeals court said.

“Brain Damage,” released on 1999’s “The Slim Shady LP,” was not intended to be taken literally, a three-judge panel said, dismissing a lawsuit filed by sanitation worker Deangelo Bailey. Their decision affirmed an earlier finding by a lower court.

Bailey went to court in 2001, accusing the Detroit-area rapper of invading his privacy by publicizing unreasonable information that put him in a false light.