2Pac featuring Richie Rich · Me Against the World
Heavy in the Game
Heavy in the Game is in D minor at 91.4 beats per minute.
Tempo
91 BPM · Andantemedian of 136 analyses · 91.4–91.4 across the middle eight tenths- Key
- D minor1 flat · the key most of the analyses agreed on
- Agreement
- 98%share of analyses that agreed
- Analyses
- 136people who ran the extractor
- One beat
- 656.5milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
- Tuning
- 434.2Hz · -23 cents from A 440
- Dynamics
- 4.35dB the level wanders from its average
- Loudness
- 0.905Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
- Danceability
- 1.644Essentia'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
136 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. All but a handful of them — 98% — put it in D minor, a key signature of 1 flat. The tempo printed above is the median of the 136 readings; 99% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.
At 91.4 BPM one beat lasts 656.5 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 164.1 ms and a dotted eighth 492.3 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 45.7 BPM, counted twice as fast 182.8. 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 4.35 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 0.905 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 91 BPM
| Note value | Beats | Milliseconds | Hertz |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whole note | 4 | 2625.8 | 0.38 |
| Half note | 2 | 1312.9 | 0.76 |
| Dotted quarter | 1.5 | 984.7 | 1.02 |
| Quarter note (one beat) | 1 | 656.5 | 1.52 |
| Quarter triplet | 0.667 | 437.6 | 2.29 |
| Dotted eighth | 0.75 | 492.3 | 2.03 |
| Eighth note | 0.5 | 328.2 | 3.05 |
| Eighth triplet | 0.333 | 218.8 | 4.57 |
| Dotted sixteenth | 0.375 | 246.2 | 4.06 |
| Sixteenth note | 0.25 | 164.1 | 6.09 |
| Sixteenth triplet | 0.167 | 109.4 | 9.14 |
| Thirty-second note | 0.125 | 82.1 | 12.19 |
Half time 45.7 BPM · double time 182.8 BPM. Every row is one beat (656.5 ms) times the fraction in the second column.
Closest in key and tempo
- Custard PieLed ZeppelinD minor91BPM
- This Is 5050 CentD minor91BPM
- If You DareAC/DCD minor92BPM
- Riff RaffAC/DCD minor92BPM
- So CruelU2D minor92BPM
- Izzo / In the EndJay‐Z / Linkin ParkD minor92BPM
- Tear It UpQueenD minor90BPM
- Killing in the NameRage Against the MachineD minor90BPM
- Fully Loaded Clip50 CentD minor90BPM
- The ScoopBeastie BoysD minor90BPM
Recordings in D minor, ordered by how near their tempo is to 91 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.
All songs in D minorAll songs at 91 BPMD minor at 90–99 BPM
MusicBrainz collapses 1 recording id into this one. Recording id 4991bde9-8cc0-4c0d-9ce1-8eab3f3da9f8.