Apple of My Eye (feat. Raphael Saadiq)

Rick Ross gets personal on this track, where he talks about what is important for him in his life and some of his regrets. He opens the song by stating states that the two things that mean the most to him are being someone his neighborhood could respect, and a son that his mama could be proud of. Just being somebody that the neighborhood respected And my mama could be proud of, was the apple of my eye That's all I ever wanted, just being something, man

"Apple of my eye" is an English idiom, which comes from the Old Testament book of Deuteronomy 32:10. It refers to God guarding Moses and the Israelites in the desert like a person protects the pupil of his eye. (The pupil was formally believed to be a round, solid ball like an apple). He kept him as the apple of His eye. The phrase came to apply to any very precious or much loved person or thing. It has widely been used in pop culture, most notably in Stevie Wonder's tribute to his wife Syreeta, "You Are The Sunshine Of My Life" where he sang: You are the sunshine of my life, That's why I'll always stay around, mmm mmm yeah yeah You are the apple of my eye, Forever you'll stay in my heart

Ross expresses his view during the song that America has reached the end of the line with the election of Donald Trump as president and the country needs to start over: I'm happy that Donald Trump became the president Because we have to destroy it to elevate. He explained the lyric to Billboard magazine: "This is the bottom. We will start over after this. I think that particular line, a lot of young brothers who haven't really put a finger on how they feel about our new president, I think they needed to hear that line to get some form of understanding."