The Message by Nas
The Message by Nas runs at 88 BPM in the key of C major. The prompt below describes those musical characteristics for Suno without naming the record.
This analysis has not been checked by a person. Tempo, key, and genre come straight from the software, so treat them as a starting point and trust your ears.
Measured
- Tempo
- 88 BPM
- Key
- C major
- Length
- 3:54
- Genre
- boom-bap hip hop
- Mood
- restless
- Vocals
- Vocal
Suno prompt
A restless boom-bap hip hop track with explosive energy and a broken-beat feel at 88 BPM. The low end is electric bass playing root-note anchored, under a programmed drum machine with a tight and dry snare and sizzling cymbals. Grand piano carries the harmony, fingerpicked. The arrangement follows intro-verse-chorus-outro. A warm male vocal delivers a smooth and melismatic performance. Analog hiss adds texture, with a slapback delay on the vocal. Mixed in a lo-fi and saturated style, foregrounding harmonic warmth and atmospheric space, built on lush ninth and eleventh chords, leaving a calm and settled atmosphere.
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What the analysis found
- Bass instrument
- electric bass
- Bassline style
- root-note anchored
- Tempo
- 88
- Chords
- lush ninth and eleventh
- Cymbals
- sizzling cymbals
- Energy
- explosive
- Atmosphere
- calm and settled
- Genre
- boom-bap hip hop
- Harmonic instrument
- grand piano
- Harmonic style
- fingerpicked
- Mixing style
- lo-fi and saturated
- Mood
- restless
- Percussion
- a programmed drum machine
- Rhythmic style
- broken-beat
- Snare
- tight and dry
- Sonic focus
- harmonic warmth
- Secondary focus
- atmospheric space
- Space
- a slapback delay
- Structure
- intro-verse-chorus-outro
- Textural detail
- analog hiss
- Vocal style
- smooth and melismatic
- Vocal
- a warm male vocal
About this page
This is an independent acoustic analysis. Tempo and key are measured from the audio; instrumentation and production characteristics are classified against a fixed vocabulary. The source recording is deleted once the analysis finishes, and no lyrics from it are stored.
Planetary Records is not affiliated with Nas. The prompt describes musical characteristics and does not reproduce the recording.