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You feel it in the street, the people breathe without hope
They goin' through the motion, they dimmin' down the focus Yasiin Bey (Ft. Slick Rick) – Auditorium
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After which, they couldn't find the Villain, like Scooby MF DOOM – Beef Rap
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Scooby Doo hunted down villains wearing masks – DOOM is saying that you, unlike Scooby Doo, can’t find the villain (i.e., him). Like his namesake Doctor Doom, he is a reclusive supervillain, and not an incompetent small-timer like the villains who populate the Scooby Doo cartoon.
Scooby Doo was himself often missing (the name of the first iteration of the show was Scooby Doo, Where Are You?) due to his cowardice, incompetence, and weakness for snacking. This forced the other, more competent members of the team to locate him and his partner, Shaggy. Since Scooby Doo is often read as a kind of stand-in for a stoner character, DOOM would be saying that like the famous Great Dane, once he smokes he is unaccountable and difficult to locate.
Possible (but unlikely) double entendre with “ruby”, since Joe Ruby is the creator of Scoobie Doo
Also, after smoking a doobie, DOOM is “in the lab on some old buddha monk shit” – locked up in his studio making beats and writing lyrics. That’s why “they” can’t “find the villain (DOOM) like Scooby” – Scooby Doo and the gang often had to struggle for a while before they found the villain in each episode of the show.
Note that DOOM’s Hey! samples Scooby Doo and makes numerous references to the show’s characters.
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