Anxious

About this beat

Anxious is a 115 BPM boom bap type beat, released in 2024, 44 bars long. What follows is the arrangement across 1:31, the tempo maths and where the gaps sit.

There's a 8-second run-up here before the full beat arrives, which is where a spoken intro or a dropped ad-lib usually sits. One breakdown sits around 1:02, roughly 68% of the way in — the natural place to change up your delivery. The dynamics swing hard — about 32% variation between the loudest and quietest stretches, with the peak hitting near 0:09. A verse written at one intensity will feel flat by 0:55.

The beat runs 1:31 — about 44 bars at 115 BPM. Enough for a hook, one sixteen and a 4-bar outro — a single-verse record rather than a full three-verse build.

At 115 BPM “Anxious” sits in an uptempo groove, faster than 56% of the 82 beats in this catalogue. Most writers fit 13–16 syllables per bar at this speed — over 44 bars that's around 650 syllables if you fill every one. Most rappers ride this in half-time — count 58 and it feels like a slow beat with fast hats underneath.

The free demo of “Anxious” is tagged mp3 — 1:31 to write and cut a reference take against. The untagged WAV and trackout stems are on BeatStars from $44.