(NYRoB) (...) Eminem's violent jokes and crudity are based on an understood distance between words and deeds that fans take for granted. He plays with those distances, for sure, and he puts pressure on the boundaries, but I'm all for that, given his skill with the microphone. Eminem can make the language dance and he can summon a wealth of true moments. You might not favor those moments yourself— you might even imagine they have no place in The NYroB — but that could be a rather conservative thing to think, a treasured anxiety mimicking a bold certainty, and a view which prides itself on taking no interest at all in the imaginative lives of millions in America and beyond.