After his very public split from the X-Ecutioners in 2004, Rob Swift decided to continue his work as one of the world's best DJs by going the route of the solo artist. In 2005, Swift released WarGames, the ideas for which he had been developing since September 11, 2001. With War Games, Swift wanted to show his intellectual side, not just the scratching ability he had consistently demonstrated with his old band, and while initially the DJ admitted that the album reflected his negative feelings toward the Bush administration and its behavior regarding the war on terror, he later recanted and explained that he was instead trying to present an unbiased picture of the situation in order to give his listeners something to think about. In reality, unbiased is the wrong word to use. But that there's an attempt to show more than one side of the argument can certainly be allowed. Many of the tracks consist of news clips, both real and made up, and not just from one perspective (though the more conservative views sometimes seem to have a particularly phony sound to them). "Mad Wrist," for example, is about the horrific chaos after the bombing of the presumably American town "Metropolis," and "41 Bullets" details the real-life shooting of an innocent man, Amadou Diallo, by four New York City police officers. Not unexpectedly, President Bush himself is often sampled, including a 39-second clip of his explanation for going to war ("our aim is a democratic peace...this great republic will l