Andre Hicks AKA...

MAC DRE, AKA Mac Dreezy, AKA Dredose, AKA Thizelle Washington, AKA Cold Crest Creeper, AKA Thizz Laden, AKA Pill Clinton, AKA Mohammad Ali Boo Boo, AKA The Genie of the Lamp, AKA The Make it Happen Cap'n, AKA Andre Maccassi, AKA Ronald Dregan, AKA Dre Helsing, AKA Dre Van Halen, AKA Thizzy Marley, AKA Thizz Marque, AKA The Thizzard of Oz, AKA Mac Drevious, AKA The Mac named Dre, AKA Mac Dammit, AKA Judge Dre Mathis, AKA Dre McGyver, AKA Silky-Slim, AKA  and last but not least Mr. Furly (Furl) "The owner of the buildin"

"Pull up a chair let me make you a plate
Of this game that's seasoned like a tasty steak
Since '88 I've been servin em well
I was servin yayo when L was rockin bells
Clockin mail get, get, gettin it
Coppin it flip flip, flip flipping it
Now I'm spitting it bar for bar
European whipping it car for car
No doe hoe? You know I say no
I need you like jaws need a rain coat
I fadangle stay high as the star spangled
Choke the blood out you b* get strangled
Get mangled f*ing with this pimping
Hot as Lipton Dre J Simpson
You better pay attention it's all gamed up
Peep the bio the file see how I came up" - Since '84

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q7GKzcQ225Y

The President's Speech...

The President's speech lasted about 2 or 3 minutes....It was exactly 272 words. The speech was divided sharply along partisan lines...not well received by nearly half of those who heard it. One side saying this is the right thing to do and must be done. The other side crying vehemently in opposition to what the President proposed. The actions of the speech had already taken place. It was irreversible yet one side refused to accept it. No I'm not talking about President Obama and today's partisan quibbles between Democrats and Republicans. I'm talking about a war that divided a nation which created a valley; still separating both sides to this day - exactly 150 years later. Some things never change....when will both sides accept one another?

The Gettysburg Address - November 19, 1863

Of the people...
By the people...
For the people...

Pure

Take a cup of water. One atom of oxygen, two atoms of hydrogen - fused to form a perfect molecule. Water, in its perfect state: colorless, odorless, and tasteless yet completely fulfilling and refreshing to the palette. No living soul can exist without it while composing the majority of the body. Now take just one drop of the world's deadliest poison and mix it with the water. You no longer have water but rather...poison.

It only takes a small amount of what is bad to disrupt a lot of what is good. Our association is no different. When on the path to righteousness (that is, what's morally and divinely correct) we cannot indulge in negative company, negative behavior and quite importantly - negative thought. Yes, every thought that enters the mind should be scrutinized by wisdom. Each thought is a seed that can quickly grow. The fruit that is produced from these seeds oftentimes become actions we make either in the direction of virtue or of our own fleshly desires. Maintain every thought as if you truly believed the Heavenly Father is directly above you.

In this sense, we must continue to 'purify' ourselves allowing no poisons to infiltrate our temple (mind and body) - starting with the things we let enter our minds. Extinguish the very flames of negative thoughts and replace them with affirmations, hope, faith, love and wisdom. Think thoughts of Him and of His divine purpose - He who granted you the ability to even think! Putting away what we want and thinking in terms of what He wants.

The process is not simple. If it were, all would be perfect and without sin. We must strive for these things and work continuously, even diligently towards them in the same manner we seek other pleasures in life. The difference in striving for spiritual balance as opposed to material or social and economic balance is that spiritual balance affords us an entire lifetime of reward whereas the other things are quickly and easily replaced, deleted, upgraded, thrown away, and even put away or forgotten.

- Paul Charles



"Whoever drinks from the water that I will give him will never get thirsty at all but the water that I will give him will become in him a fountain of water  bubbling up to impart everlasting life.” - John 4:14

Put on Your Spiritual Suit of Armor

Ephesians 6:10-18

"Finally, go on acquiring power in [the] Lord and in the mightiness of his strength. 11 Put on the complete suit of armor from God that YOU may be able to stand firm against the machinations of the Devil; 12 because we have a wrestling, not against blood and flesh, but against the governments, against the authorities, against the world rulers of this darkness, against the wicked spirit forces in the heavenly places. 13 On this account take up the complete suit of armor from God, that YOU may be able to resist in the wicked day and, after YOU have done all things thoroughly, to stand firm.
14 Stand firm, therefore, with YOUR loins girded about with truth, and having on the breastplate of righteousness, 15 and with YOUR feet shod with the equipment of the good news of peace. 16 Above all things, take up the large shield of faith, with which YOU will be able to quench all the wicked one’s burning missiles. 17 Also, accept the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the spirit, that is, God’s word, 18 while with every form of prayer and supplication YOU carry on prayer on every occasion in spirit. And to that end keep awake with all constancy and with supplication in behalf of all the holy ones,"