Dr. Dre featuring Hittman · 2001
Big Ego’s
Big Ego’s is in E minor at 88.7 beats per minute.
Tempo
89 BPM · Andantemedian of 164 analyses · 88.7–88.8 across the middle eight tenths- Key
- E minor1 sharp · the key most of the analyses agreed on
- Agreement
- 98%share of analyses that agreed
- Analyses
- 164people who ran the extractor
- One beat
- 676.4milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
- Tuning
- 434.2Hz · -23 cents from A 440
- Dynamics
- 5.32dB the level wanders from its average
- Loudness
- 0.839Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
- Danceability
- 1.504Essentia'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
164 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. All but a handful of them — 98% — put it in E minor, a key signature of 1 sharp. The tempo printed above is the median of the 164 readings; 100% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.
At 88.7 BPM one beat lasts 676.4 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 169.1 ms and a dotted eighth 507.3 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 44.4 BPM, counted twice as fast 177.4. 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 5.32 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 0.839 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 E 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 E minor
Each of these differs from E 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 89 BPM
| Note value | Beats | Milliseconds | Hertz |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whole note | 4 | 2705.7 | 0.37 |
| Half note | 2 | 1352.9 | 0.74 |
| Dotted quarter | 1.5 | 1014.7 | 0.99 |
| Quarter note (one beat) | 1 | 676.4 | 1.48 |
| Quarter triplet | 0.667 | 451 | 2.22 |
| Dotted eighth | 0.75 | 507.3 | 1.97 |
| Eighth note | 0.5 | 338.2 | 2.96 |
| Eighth triplet | 0.333 | 225.5 | 4.44 |
| Dotted sixteenth | 0.375 | 253.7 | 3.94 |
| Sixteenth note | 0.25 | 169.1 | 5.91 |
| Sixteenth triplet | 0.167 | 112.7 | 8.87 |
| Thirty-second note | 0.125 | 84.6 | 11.83 |
Half time 44.4 BPM · double time 177.4 BPM. Every row is one beat (676.4 ms) times the fraction in the second column.
Closest in key and tempo
- Every Planet We Reach Is DeadGorillazE minor88BPM
- Cedarwood RoadU2E minor88BPM
- CenturiesFall Out BoyE minor88BPM
- Duck and Run3 Doors DownE minor88BPM
- Eyes on MeCéline DionE minor90BPM
- Still Don’t Give a FuckEminemE minor90BPM
- EpicFaith No MoreE minor87BPM
- ReflectionToolE minor91BPM
- Ex‐GirlfriendNo DoubtE minor86BPM
- Born to DieLana Del ReyE minor86BPM
Recordings in E minor, ordered by how near their tempo is to 89 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.
All songs in E minorAll songs at 89 BPME minor at 80–89 BPM
MusicBrainz collapses 1 recording id into this one. Recording id 61d259dc-d22e-4bc3-8ec6-584f383ad5ab.