50 Cent · The Massacre

This Is 50

This Is 50 is in D minor at 91.3 beats per minute.

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Tempo

91 BPM · Andantemedian of 131 analyses · 91.3–91.3 across the middle eight tenths
Key
D minor1 flat · the key most of the analyses agreed on
Agreement
99%share of analyses that agreed
Analyses
131people who ran the extractor
One beat
657.2milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
Tuning
434.2Hz · -23 cents from A 440
Dynamics
3.36dB the level wanders from its average
Loudness
0.945Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
Danceability
1.432Essentia's danceability, 0–3

Source: AcousticBrainz, dump of 2022-06-23 (CC0) · MusicBrainz core data, 2026-09-17 (CC0) · how each number is measured. Measured up to 23.06.2022 — AcousticBrainz stopped collecting in 2022, so nothing released after that date is here.

What the numbers say

131 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. All but a handful of them — 99% — put it in D minor, a key signature of 1 flat. The tempo printed above is the median of the 131 readings; 100% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.

At 91.3 BPM one beat lasts 657.2 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 164.3 ms and a dotted eighth 492.9 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 45.7 BPM, counted twice as fast 182.6. A score would mark that Andante, by the ranges this site uses.

The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 434.2 Hz, which is 23 cents below concert A at 440 Hz — the sort of drift a tape machine or a slightly different mastering leaves behind. That is a fact about this transfer of the music, not about how it was played.

The dynamic complexity of the recording measures 3.36 dB: that is how far the level wanders from its own average, so a small number means a loud, flat master and a large one means a recording that still breathes. Its average loudness is 0.945 on Essentia's 0-to-1 scale, which is not decibels and is not comparable to a streaming service's number.

10 other recordings here are in D minor; the ones listed below are the closest in tempo.

Beats per bar are not in this dataset. AcousticBrainz's analysis reports a tempo, a key and a loudness, and no time signature at all, so this page does not print one — a 4/4 here would be a guess dressed as a measurement.

Keys that fit with D minor

Each of these differs from D minor by at most one accidental, or shares its tonic. That is the whole of what a mixing wheel encodes; here the relations are named instead of numbered.

Delay times at 91 BPM

Note valueBeatsMillisecondsHertz
Whole note42628.70.38
Half note21314.30.76
Dotted quarter1.5985.81.01
Quarter note (one beat)1657.21.52
Quarter triplet0.667438.12.28
Dotted eighth0.75492.92.03
Eighth note0.5328.63.04
Eighth triplet0.333219.14.57
Dotted sixteenth0.375246.44.06
Sixteenth note0.25164.36.09
Sixteenth triplet0.167109.59.13
Thirty-second note0.12582.112.17

Half time 45.7 BPM · double time 182.6 BPM. Every row is one beat (657.2 ms) times the fraction in the second column.

Closest in key and tempo

  1. Custard PieLed ZeppelinD minor91BPM
  2. Heavy in the Game2Pac featuring Richie RichD minor91BPM
  3. If You DareAC/DCD minor92BPM
  4. Riff RaffAC/DCD minor92BPM
  5. So CruelU2D minor92BPM
  6. Izzo / In the EndJay‐Z / Linkin ParkD minor92BPM
  7. Tear It UpQueenD minor90BPM
  8. Killing in the NameRage Against the MachineD minor90BPM
  9. Fully Loaded Clip50 CentD minor90BPM
  10. The ScoopBeastie BoysD minor90BPM

Recordings in D minor, ordered by how near their tempo is to 91 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.

All songs in D minorAll songs at 91 BPMD minor at 90–99 BPM50 Cent

MusicBrainz collapses 3 recording ids into this one. Recording id 9bba00c7-ec84-4656-bda8-0513eb7c8d61.