FBI

About this beat

FBI is a 118 BPM boom bap type beat, released in 2024, 80 bars long. Here's how those 2:42 move and what fits over them.

“FBI” opens light and takes about 16 seconds to fill out. Use those 16 seconds: entering over a bare loop reads more deliberate than rapping into a wall of drums. One breakdown sits around 1:29, roughly 55% of the way in — the natural place to change up your delivery. The dynamics swing hard — about 31% variation between the loudest and quietest stretches, with the peak hitting near 0:17. A verse written at one intensity will feel flat by 1:37. Weight builds toward the back third — after roughly 1:47 — so save the strongest bars for the end.

At 118 BPM “FBI” sits in an uptempo groove, faster than 61% of the 82 beats in this catalogue. Most writers fit 13–16 syllables per bar at this speed — over 80 bars that's around 1,200 syllables if you fill every one. Most rappers ride this in half-time — count 59 and it feels like a slow beat with fast hats underneath.

The beat runs 2:42 — about 80 bars at 118 BPM. That's room for an intro, 3 sixteen-bar verses and hooks between them, with 8 bars spare for an outro.

Take the tagged demo to test the idea over all 80 bars, then licence the untagged WAV or the full stems from $44.