Tears of tHe City
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About this beat
Tears of tHe City is a 80 BPM rap beat, released in 2024, 57 bars long. Here's how those 2:51 move and what fits over them.
There's a 11-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 1:29, roughly 52% 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 1:12. A verse written at one intensity will feel flat by 1:43. Weight builds toward the back third — after roughly 1:53 — so save the strongest bars for the end.
At 80 BPM “Tears of tHe City” sits in the classic boom bap pocket, faster than 9% of the 82 beats in this catalogue. Most writers fit 10–13 syllables per bar at this speed — over 57 bars that's around 700 syllables if you fill every one. Counting it double-time at 160 gives you a tighter grid for triplets and hi-hat-style runs.
The beat runs 2:51 — about 57 bars at 80 BPM. That's room for an intro, 2 sixteen-bar verses and hooks between them, with a bar spare at the end.
“Tears of tHe City” streams free as a tagged mp3, all 2:51 of it. Licences covering the untagged WAV and the separated stems begin at $44.