Dr. Dre · The Chronic
Bitches Ain’t Shit
Bitches Ain’t Shit is in B minor at 92.3 beats per minute.
Tempo
92 BPM · Andantemedian of 144 analyses · 92.3–92.3 across the middle eight tenths- Key
- B minor2 sharps · the key most of the analyses agreed on
- Agreement
- 94%share of analyses that agreed
- Analyses
- 144people who ran the extractor
- One beat
- 650.1milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
- Tuning
- 439Hz · -4 cents from A 440
- Dynamics
- 3.84dB the level wanders from its average
- Loudness
- 0.97Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
- Danceability
- 1.606Essentia'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
144 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. Most of them — 94% — put it in B minor, a key signature of 2 sharps. The tempo printed above is the median of the 144 readings; 99% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.
At 92.3 BPM one beat lasts 650.1 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 162.5 ms and a dotted eighth 487.5 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 46.2 BPM, counted twice as fast 184.6. A score would mark that Andante, by the ranges this site uses.
The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 439 Hz, which is 4 cents below concert A at 440 Hz — close enough to standard that a tuner would not argue. That is a fact about this transfer of the music, not about how it was played.
The dynamic complexity of the recording measures 3.84 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 0.97 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 B 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 B minor
Each of these differs from B 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 92 BPM
| Note value | Beats | Milliseconds | Hertz |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whole note | 4 | 2600.2 | 0.38 |
| Half note | 2 | 1300.1 | 0.77 |
| Dotted quarter | 1.5 | 975.1 | 1.03 |
| Quarter note (one beat) | 1 | 650.1 | 1.54 |
| Quarter triplet | 0.667 | 433.4 | 2.31 |
| Dotted eighth | 0.75 | 487.5 | 2.05 |
| Eighth note | 0.5 | 325 | 3.08 |
| Eighth triplet | 0.333 | 216.7 | 4.61 |
| Dotted sixteenth | 0.375 | 243.8 | 4.1 |
| Sixteenth note | 0.25 | 162.5 | 6.15 |
| Sixteenth triplet | 0.167 | 108.3 | 9.23 |
| Thirty-second note | 0.125 | 81.3 | 12.31 |
Half time 46.2 BPM · double time 184.6 BPM. Every row is one beat (650.1 ms) times the fraction in the second column.
Closest in key and tempo
- Summer Moved Ona‐haB minor92BPM
- SoldierErykah BaduB minor93BPM
- Mrs. RobinsonSimon & GarfunkelB minor92BPM
- KarmaBlack Eyed PeasB minor94BPM
- Not for MeBackstreet BoysB minor94BPM
- Locked UpAkonB minor90BPM
- Havana AffairRamonesB minor89BPM
- Don’t Turn AroundAce of BaseB minor96BPM
- GrindAlice in ChainsB minor89BPM
- I’m Gettin’ Money2PacB minor96BPM
Recordings in B minor, ordered by how near their tempo is to 92 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.
All songs in B minorAll songs at 92 BPMB minor at 90–99 BPMDr. Dre
MusicBrainz collapses 1 recording id into this one. Recording id be0fcc21-e180-42f1-ad75-76d42a8b2823.