Jay‐Z feat. Big Boi, Killer Mike & Twista · The Blueprint²: The Gift & The Curse

Poppin’ Tags

Poppin’ Tags is in D minor at 146 beats per minute.

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Tempo

146 BPM · Allegromedian of 142 analyses · 146–146 across the middle eight tenths
Key
D minor1 flat · the key most of the analyses agreed on
Agreement
59%share of analyses that agreed
Analyses
142people who ran the extractor
One beat
411milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
Tuning
439.2Hz · -3 cents from A 440
Dynamics
3.16dB the level wanders from its average
Loudness
0.924Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
Danceability
1.286Essentia'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

142 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. A bare majority of them — 59% — put it in D minor, a key signature of 1 flat. The tempo printed above is the median of the 142 readings; 100% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.

At 146 BPM one beat lasts 411 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 102.7 ms and a dotted eighth 308.2 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 73 BPM, counted twice as fast 292. A score would mark that Allegro, by the ranges this site uses.

The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 439.2 Hz, which is 3 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 3.16 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 0.924 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 146 BPM

Note valueBeatsMillisecondsHertz
Whole note41643.80.61
Half note2821.91.22
Dotted quarter1.5616.41.62
Quarter note (one beat)14112.43
Quarter triplet0.6672743.65
Dotted eighth0.75308.23.24
Eighth note0.5205.54.87
Eighth triplet0.3331377.3
Dotted sixteenth0.375154.16.49
Sixteenth note0.25102.79.73
Sixteenth triplet0.16768.514.6
Thirty-second note0.12551.419.47

Half time 73 BPM · double time 292 BPM. Every row is one beat (411 ms) times the fraction in the second column.

Closest in key and tempo

  1. I RanA Flock of SeagullsD minor146BPM
  2. DOAFoo FightersD minor146BPM
  3. CommunicateThe B‐52sD minor147BPM
  4. FreedomRage Against the MachineD minor145BPM
  5. Red BarchettaRushD minor144BPM
  6. SorceryTim DaviesD minor144BPM
  7. PlutoBjörkD minor148BPM
  8. Sweet LeafBlack SabbathD minor148BPM
  9. HeadlongQueenD minor144BPM
  10. The WeightThe BandD minor144BPM

Recordings in D minor, ordered by how near their tempo is to 146 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.

All songs in D minorAll songs at 146 BPMD minor at 140–149 BPM

MusicBrainz collapses 1 recording id into this one. Recording id f49082e1-a043-43fa-abe9-1ff7112331fe.