Opening Dark Side Of The Clouds, the bare and heavy “Paper Bag Mask” begins the album on a melancholy start. $crim recognizes the tedious repetition of his drug intake, rehabs, and withdrawals, while Ruby names the problems he has with himself and the world—referencing a “paper bag mask”.

The idea of a “paper bag mask” used in the title and in Ruby’s verse is cleverly used to imply the poverty-stricken times the two had to go through, suggesting that they had no money to buy a normal mask to commit a crime in the first place.