Hip-hop BPM

How fast, and who says so

Where the two sources overlap: 85–95 BPM. Each in its own words:

• iZotope, Using Different Tempos To Make Beats For Different Genres (2021): 85–95 BPM
• Soundtrap, How To Find BPM Of A Song (2025): 80–115 BPM

The groove on this page

Classic hip-hop is boom-bap: a kick on the one with a second one late in the bar, a hard snare on two and four, hats in 8ths, and swing, the second 16th of each pair pushed late the way the sampled drummers played it. The kick moves between the two bars so the loop breathes. iZotope gives 85 to 95 for hip-hop; Soundtrap stretches to 115, where newer styles sit. Trap, counted at double, has its own page.

On this page: the app's Warm kit at 92 BPM, swing 60 %.

Delay and LFO values

A delay in time with the track repeats once per note value: a quarter note lasts 60,000 divided by the BPM, in milliseconds. Dotted is one and a half times that, triplet two thirds. An LFO synced to a note value cycles at 1,000 divided by those milliseconds, in Hz. The table follows the tempo above: − and + move it, and so does a tempo you tap.

Genres near this tempo

• R&B: 80–90 BPM
• Reggaeton: about 90 BPM
• Pop: 80–104 BPM
• Afrobeats: 100–115 BPM

Then make something of it

The door opens Brumm, a club track with a beat and a bass, with this groove's low end in it. The app runs between 90 and 150 BPM, so a faster or slower tempo goes in at half or double. No account, no upload: it travels inside the link. Hum a line over it, and it becomes an instrument.

Nothing is recorded: no microphone, only your taps, counted in the browser. The groove's sounds are the app's own samples, fetched when you tap Play. How the site counts visits.