TempoPeek

Jay‐Z feat. Eminem · The Blueprint

Renegade

Renegade is in C sharp minor at 84.9 beats per minute.

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Tempo

85 BPM · Andantemedian of 134 analyses · 84.9–84.9 across the middle eight tenths
Key
C♯ minor4 sharps · the key most of the analyses agreed on
Agreement
100%share of analyses that agreed
Analyses
134people who ran the extractor
One beat
706.7milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
Tuning
442Hz · +8 cents from A 440
Dynamics
4.48dB the level wanders from its average
Loudness
0.937Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
Danceability
1.307Essentia'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

134 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. All but a handful of them — 100% — put it in C sharp minor, a key signature of 4 sharps. The tempo printed above is the median of the 134 readings; 100% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.

At 84.9 BPM one beat lasts 706.7 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 176.7 ms and a dotted eighth 530 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 42.5 BPM, counted twice as fast 169.8. A score would mark that Andante, by the ranges this site uses.

The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 442 Hz, which is 8 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 4.48 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 0.937 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 C sharp 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 C♯ minor

Each of these differs from C♯ 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 85 BPM

Note valueBeatsMillisecondsHertz
Whole note42826.90.35
Half note21413.40.71
Dotted quarter1.51060.10.94
Quarter note (one beat)1706.71.42
Quarter triplet0.667471.12.12
Dotted eighth0.755301.89
Eighth note0.5353.42.83
Eighth triplet0.333235.64.25
Dotted sixteenth0.3752653.77
Sixteenth note0.25176.75.66
Sixteenth triplet0.167117.88.49
Thirty-second note0.12588.311.32

Half time 42.5 BPM · double time 169.8 BPM. Every row is one beat (706.7 ms) times the fraction in the second column.

The same title by somebody else

  1. RenegadeStyxC major107BPM

Matched on the title alone, so this list can hold a different song that happens to share a name. Nothing here claims one is a cover of the other.

Closest in key and tempo

  1. Till I CollapseEminem feat. Nate DoggC♯ minor86BPM
  2. Light SpeedDr. Dre featuring HittmanC♯ minor86BPM
  3. Next GirlThe Black KeysC♯ minor86BPM
  4. Jesus to a ChildGeorge MichaelC♯ minor87BPM
  5. Oh MotherChristina AguileraC♯ minor87BPM
  6. What Up Gangsta50 CentC♯ minor83BPM
  7. Down SlowMobyC♯ minor82BPM
  8. A Baltimore Love Thing50 CentC♯ minor81BPM
  9. Hard Habit to BreakChicagoC♯ minor81BPM
  10. Save Me From MyselfChristina AguileraC♯ minor80BPM

Recordings in C sharp minor, ordered by how near their tempo is to 85 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.

All songs in C sharp minorAll songs at 85 BPMC♯ minor at 80–89 BPM

MusicBrainz collapses 4 recording ids into this one. Recording id cf262239-b2cd-4a6a-870e-e1153a71c8c3.