Cypress Hill · Cypress Hill
How I Could Just Kill a Man
How I Could Just Kill a Man is in F minor at 101.9 beats per minute.
Tempo
102 BPM · Andantemedian of 210 analyses · 101.9–101.9 across the middle eight tenths- Key
- F minor4 flats · the key most of the analyses agreed on
- Agreement
- 98%share of analyses that agreed
- Analyses
- 210people who ran the extractor
- One beat
- 588.8milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
- Tuning
- 450Hz · +39 cents from A 440
- Dynamics
- 4.14dB the level wanders from its average
- Loudness
- 0.95Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
- Danceability
- 1.213Essentia'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
210 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. All but a handful of them — 98% — put it in F minor, a key signature of 4 flats. The tempo printed above is the median of the 210 readings; 100% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.
At 101.9 BPM one beat lasts 588.8 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 147.2 ms and a dotted eighth 441.6 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 51 BPM, counted twice as fast 203.8. A score would mark that Andante, by the ranges this site uses.
The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 450 Hz, which is 39 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 4.14 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 0.95 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 F 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 F minor
Each of these differs from F 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 102 BPM
| Note value | Beats | Milliseconds | Hertz |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whole note | 4 | 2355.3 | 0.42 |
| Half note | 2 | 1177.6 | 0.85 |
| Dotted quarter | 1.5 | 883.2 | 1.13 |
| Quarter note (one beat) | 1 | 588.8 | 1.7 |
| Quarter triplet | 0.667 | 392.5 | 2.55 |
| Dotted eighth | 0.75 | 441.6 | 2.26 |
| Eighth note | 0.5 | 294.4 | 3.4 |
| Eighth triplet | 0.333 | 196.3 | 5.1 |
| Dotted sixteenth | 0.375 | 220.8 | 4.53 |
| Sixteenth note | 0.25 | 147.2 | 6.79 |
| Sixteenth triplet | 0.167 | 98.1 | 10.19 |
| Thirty-second note | 0.125 | 73.6 | 13.59 |
Half time 51 BPM · double time 203.8 BPM. Every row is one beat (588.8 ms) times the fraction in the second column.
Closest in key and tempo
- Islands in the StreamDolly Parton with Kenny RogersF minor102BPM
- StayZedd & Alessia CaraF minor102BPM
- The Thrill Is Gone (From Yesterday’s Kiss)Aretha FranklinF minor102BPM
- Rebel of the Underground2PacF minor101BPM
- Tracks of My TearsAretha FranklinF minor101BPM
- I’m Bad, I’m NationwideZZ TopF minor103BPM
- The Negotiation Limerick FileBeastie BoysF minor101BPM
- KILL ME BITCH$NotF minor101BPM
- Detroit Rock CityKISSF minor101BPM
- Monkey ManThe Rolling StonesF minor103BPM
Recordings in F minor, ordered by how near their tempo is to 102 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.
All songs in F minorAll songs at 102 BPMF minor at 100–109 BPMCypress Hill
MusicBrainz collapses 24 recording ids into this one. Recording id c059b614-2b75-4dfa-8b84-57d075ccda83.