The Black Eyed Peas · Elephunk

Hey Mama

Hey Mama is in A minor at 100 beats per minute.

Tempo

100 BPM · Andantemedian of 147 analyses · 99.8–100.1 across the middle eight tenths

Key: A minorno sharps and no flats · the key most of the analyses agreed on
Agreement: 80%share of analyses that agreed
Analyses: 147people who ran the extractor
One beat: 600milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
Tuning: 443.1Hz · +12 cents from A 440
Dynamics: 3.74dB the level wanders from its average
Loudness: 0.946Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
Danceability: 1.312Essentia'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

147 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. Most of them — 80% — put it in A minor, a key signature of no sharps and no flats. The tempo printed above is the median of the 147 readings; 100% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.

At 100 BPM one beat lasts 600 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 150 ms and a dotted eighth 450 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 50 BPM, counted twice as fast 200. A score would mark that Andante, by the ranges this site uses.

The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 443.1 Hz, which is 12 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 3.74 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 0.946 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 A 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 A minor

Each of these differs from A 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 100 BPM

Note value	Beats	Milliseconds	Hertz
Whole note	4	2400	0.42
Half note	2	1200	0.83
Dotted quarter	1.5	900	1.11
Quarter note (one beat)	1	600	1.67
Quarter triplet	0.667	400	2.5
Dotted eighth	0.75	450	2.22
Eighth note	0.5	300	3.33
Eighth triplet	0.333	200	5
Dotted sixteenth	0.375	225	4.44
Sixteenth note	0.25	150	6.67
Sixteenth triplet	0.167	100	10
Thirty-second note	0.125	75	13.33

Half time 50 BPM · double time 200 BPM. Every row is one beat (600 ms) times the fraction in the second column.

The same title by somebody else

Hey MamaDavid Guetta feat. Nicki Minaj, Bebe Rexha & AfrojackA minor172BPM

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

Recordings in A minor, ordered by how near their tempo is to 100 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.

All songs in A minor All songs at 100 BPM A minor at 100–109 BPM The Black Eyed Peas

MusicBrainz collapses 9 recording ids into this one. Recording id 39c80302-8a41-47d1-9dcf-42fcb2ade9fc.