The Village Voice:You seem to have grabbed the slang of 'Get Your ----- On' right before it became ripe.
David Rees [author of Get Your War On]: I didn't have to think too long to come up with that title. I think 'Get your freak on' the song was already out there. Even before that, people within a certain demographic knew the phrase. I thought 'get your war on' was such an effective way to make the point. A lot of people were treating this as just another event that was about to happen. But it's a war. W.A.R. It's a war against terrorism. It's not a typical war, it's more a metaphysical war. It was a cool way to play up that a lot of people were not even criticizing this very important decision we had made to wage war in Afghanistan and more broadly against terrorism. It is still a war. If you knew enough about that phrase from hip-hop or whatever, it is just sort of jarring.
TVV: Most of these kids who grew up with that phrase also grew up during Desert Storm where 'getting your war on' only took a couple of months. Like a war is just a fad or a trend.
DR: That's a really good point.