Jay‐Z · The Blueprint²: The Gift & The Curse
Meet the Parents
Meet the Parents is in D minor at 83.6 beats per minute.
Tempo
84 BPM · Andantemedian of 212 analyses · 83.6–93.5 across the middle eight tenths- Key
- D minor1 flat · the key most of the analyses agreed on
- Agreement
- 83%share of analyses that agreed
- Analyses
- 212people who ran the extractor
- One beat
- 717.7milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
- Tuning
- 448.7Hz · +34 cents from A 440
- Dynamics
- 3.38dB the level wanders from its average
- Loudness
- 0.862Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
- Danceability
- 1.31Essentia'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
212 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. Most of them — 83% — put it in D minor, a key signature of 1 flat. The tempo printed above is the median of the 212 readings; 84% of them land within 2% of it, and the middle eight tenths of them run from 83.6 to 93.5 BPM.
At 83.6 BPM one beat lasts 717.7 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 179.4 ms and a dotted eighth 538.3 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 41.8 BPM, counted twice as fast 167.2. A score would mark that Andante, by the ranges this site uses.
The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 448.7 Hz, which is 34 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 3.38 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 0.862 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 84 BPM
| Note value | Beats | Milliseconds | Hertz |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whole note | 4 | 2870.8 | 0.35 |
| Half note | 2 | 1435.4 | 0.7 |
| Dotted quarter | 1.5 | 1076.6 | 0.93 |
| Quarter note (one beat) | 1 | 717.7 | 1.39 |
| Quarter triplet | 0.667 | 478.5 | 2.09 |
| Dotted eighth | 0.75 | 538.3 | 1.86 |
| Eighth note | 0.5 | 358.9 | 2.79 |
| Eighth triplet | 0.333 | 239.2 | 4.18 |
| Dotted sixteenth | 0.375 | 269.1 | 3.72 |
| Sixteenth note | 0.25 | 179.4 | 5.57 |
| Sixteenth triplet | 0.167 | 119.6 | 8.36 |
| Thirty-second note | 0.125 | 89.7 | 11.15 |
Half time 41.8 BPM · double time 167.2 BPM. Every row is one beat (717.7 ms) times the fraction in the second column.
Closest in key and tempo
- Negative CreepNirvanaD minor83BPM
- Slice of Your PieMötley CrüeD minor83BPM
- On the RunPink FloydD minor83BPM
- I Knew I Loved YouSavage GardenD minor85BPM
- KarmaAlicia KeysD minor85BPM
- Obscured by CloudsPink FloydD minor82BPM
- Can’t Stop Rock ’n’ RollAC/DCD minor85BPM
- LoserBeckD minor85BPM
- So What’cha WantBeastie BoysD minor85BPM
- PipelineThe Alan Parsons ProjectD minor86BPM
Recordings in D minor, ordered by how near their tempo is to 84 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.
All songs in D minorAll songs at 84 BPMD minor at 80–89 BPMJay‐Z
MusicBrainz collapses 4 recording ids into this one. Recording id c0a3492c-2c95-4eac-b755-5db085294a60.