Beyoncé feat. Big Boi & Sleepy Brown · Dangerously in Love

Hip Hop Star

Hip Hop Star is in A minor at 111.1 beats per minute.

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Tempo

111 BPM · Moderatomedian of 138 analyses · 111.1–111.1 across the middle eight tenths
Key
A minorno sharps and no flats · the key most of the analyses agreed on
Agreement
73%share of analyses that agreed
Analyses
138people who ran the extractor
One beat
540.1milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
Tuning
444.3Hz · +17 cents from A 440
Dynamics
4.54dB the level wanders from its average
Loudness
0.935Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
Danceability
1.515Essentia'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

138 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. A bare majority of them — 73% — put it in A minor, a key signature of no sharps and no flats. The tempo printed above is the median of the 138 readings; 99% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.

At 111.1 BPM one beat lasts 540.1 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 135 ms and a dotted eighth 405 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 55.6 BPM, counted twice as fast 222.2. A score would mark that Moderato, by the ranges this site uses.

The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 444.3 Hz, which is 17 cents above 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 4.54 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 0.935 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 A 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 A minor

Each of these differs from A 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 111 BPM

Note valueBeatsMillisecondsHertz
Whole note42160.20.46
Half note21080.10.93
Dotted quarter1.5810.11.23
Quarter note (one beat)1540.11.85
Quarter triplet0.6673602.78
Dotted eighth0.754052.47
Eighth note0.52703.7
Eighth triplet0.3331805.56
Dotted sixteenth0.375202.54.94
Sixteenth note0.251357.41
Sixteenth triplet0.1679011.11
Thirty-second note0.12567.514.81

Half time 55.6 BPM · double time 222.2 BPM. Every row is one beat (540.1 ms) times the fraction in the second column.

Closest in key and tempo

  1. Touch MeThe DoorsA minor111BPM
  2. Life in a GlasshouseRadioheadA minor111BPM
  3. KissPrince and The RevolutionA minor111BPM
  4. Heaven, Hell or HoustonZZ TopA minor111BPM
  5. OutsideFoo FightersA minor111BPM
  6. Runnin’ BlueThe DoorsA minor112BPM
  7. YouRadioheadA minor112BPM
  8. My PrerogativeBobby BrownA minor110BPM
  9. MeltdownAC/DCA minor112BPM
  10. Violent New BreedShotgun MessiahA minor110BPM

Recordings in A minor, ordered by how near their tempo is to 111 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.

All songs in A minorAll songs at 111 BPMA minor at 110–119 BPM

MusicBrainz collapses 1 recording id into this one. Recording id 1feaddda-a8ba-40b1-903f-3c3db523ece0.