What BPM is hip hop music?

What BPM is hip hop?

The most common tempo for hip hop is 85 to 95 BPM. Across 85,900 hip hop songs with verified tempo in the TempoTunes library, the median is 96 BPM and half of all songs fall between 87 and 119 BPM.

Most common: 85 to 95BPM
Median: 96BPM
Songs: 85,900verified tempo

Hip hop songs across the tempo scale

Songs per 10 BPM. Orange marks the busiest stretch.

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85 to 95 BPM is the busiest stretch, holding 31% of all hip hop songs, but plenty of hip hop lives well outside it.

One caution when you read any tempo chart: the same groove can be counted at half or double time, so a hip hop song at 96 BPM can also read as 192 BPM. That is why many genres show a second, smaller hump.

The busiest hip hop tempos

Hip hop at 85 BPM 2,218 Hip hop at 86 BPM 2,219 Hip hop at 88 BPM 2,309 Hip hop at 90 BPM 3,705 Hip hop at 91 BPM 2,317 Hip hop at 92 BPM 2,657 Hip hop at 93 BPM 2,223 Hip hop at 94 BPM 2,626 Hip hop at 95 BPM 2,678 Hip hop at 100 BPM 2,481

Chill hip hop: 60 to 90 BPM

26,546 hip hop songs at this pace: wind-downs, slow burns, and late-night listening.

2009 Freestyle
Eminem
88 BPM (2010)
Toutes options
Ninho
78 BPM (2018)
Get On Your Knees
Nicki Minaj
72 BPM (2014)
Pussy, Money, Weed
Lil Wayne
71 BPM (2007)
Thug Queen
Thug Queen
75 BPM (2022)
Changer
GIMS
77 BPM (2013)
A.D.H.D
Kendrick Lamar
72 BPM
Mercy
Kanye West
71 BPM

Steady hip hop: 90 to 120 BPM

38,094 hip hop songs at this pace: head-nod grooves and walking pace.

Murder, Murder
Eminem
90 BPM (1997)
If It’s Okay
Nicki Minaj
103 BPM (2024)
Rose
Ninho
115 BPM (2017)
Laisse tomber
GIMS
92 BPM (2013)
Go Girl
Pitbull
115 BPM (2007)
No Limit
Wiz Khalifa
108 BPM (2012)
TentCity
Thug Queen
112 BPM (2022)
LOYALTY.
Kendrick Lamar
111 BPM (2017)

Drive hip hop: 120 to 150 BPM

17,401 hip hop songs at this pace: dance-floor and workout energy.

These Demons
Eminem
140 BPM (2020)
PGP
Ninho
126 BPM (2018)
Hotel Room Service
Pitbull
126 BPM
Super Bass
Nicki Minaj
127 BPM (2011)
MIA
Wiz Khalifa
126 BPM (2012)
K-POP
Travis Scott
121 BPM (2023)
Boucan
GIMS
126 BPM
Don’t Bring Me Down
Black Eyed Peas
135 BPM (2009)

Fast hip hop: 150 to 200 BPM

3,859 hip hop songs at this pace: running cadence and full-sprint songs.

When I'm Gone
Eminem
150 BPM (2005)
Come On a Cone
Nicki Minaj
154 BPM
Lettre à une femme
Ninho
150 BPM (2020)
Try Me
Lil Wayne
160 BPM (2015)
Dirty
Pitbull
154 BPM (2004)
See Me Now
Kanye West
160 BPM (2010)
Bloody Sport
Kendrick Lamar
154 BPM (2005)
Initiation
Wiz Khalifa
150 BPM (2012)

Other genres by BPM

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