Hip-hop · Tenor · C3–C5
Hip-hop songs a tenor can sing in the original key.
9 of the 19 Hip-hop songs in the catalogue fit a tenor as written — every note between C3 and C5.
The widest of them is I'm the One by DJ Khaled, 21 semitones from D3 to B4; the narrowest is Yeah! by Usher featuring Lil Jon and Ludacris, at 12 semitones.
Of the 19, 1 goes below C3 and 9 climb above C5.
Every Hip-hop song that fits C3–C5
The best-known songs come first, and the easier ones first inside that. Rows whose chart position nobody matched sit at the end.
| Song | Artist | Year | Range | Original key | Difficulty | Genre |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Flashing Lights | Kanye West featuring Dwele | 2007 | C3–E4 | F♯ minor | 1 | Hip-hop |
| Galway Girl | Ed Sheeran | 2017 | E3–F#4 | F sharp minor | 1 | Hip-hop |
| Yeah! | Usher featuring Lil Jon and Ludacris | 2004 | A#3–A#4 | G minor | 1 | Hip-hop |
| Better Now | Post Malone | 2018 | F3–G4 | — | 1 | Hip-hop |
| Family Affair | Mary J. Blige | 2001 | G#3–B4 | — | 1 | Hip-hop |
| Lighters | Bad Meets Evil featuring Bruno Mars | 2011 | C3–C4 | C major | 1 | Hip-hop |
| Rocketeer | Far East Movement featuring Ryan Tedder of OneRepublic | 2010 | D3–D4 | A minor | 1 | Hip-hop |
| I'm the One | DJ Khaled | 2017 | D3–B4 | G major | 2 | Hip-hop |
| Swish Swish | Katy Perry featuring Nicki Minaj | 2017 | D#3–G#4 | F minor | 2 | Hip-hop |
What this list is
The catalogue holds 430 songs with a sourced lowest and highest note, and 19 of those are Hip-hop. A song is on this page only if both of its notes already sit inside C3–C5 — nothing has been moved to another key.
A voice type is a convention for classifying a trained voice by timbre and where it sits, not a test result on its own.
No song here is marked safe or risky. Those labels are read off notes held for two seconds, and this page has not heard you sing.