Why is dirty south considered 140 bpm vs 70?

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So I know for like a trap beat it's usually easier to use 140bpm but then place kicks and snares on the first and third beat but the song structure is as if it were in 70bpm right? 16 bars of two kicks and two snares.

So why is it that it's considered 140bpm with eighth note hi hats or whatever vs. 70 bpm with 16th note hi hats?
 
it is easier to do my drum and snare rolls with a 140 tempo. Also, the appregiator sounds better(to me) to down south drums when it is at 140 opposed to 70.
 
It SEEMS easier because at 140 BPM 1/16th notes sound like 1/32th notes at 70 BPM and most sequencers work on 1/16 grid. I would rather just make the beat at 70 BPM and set my quantize/grid at 1/32. I use Cubase so it's as easy as adjusting the quantize settings, i'm not too sure how it would work in your DAW but it makes more musical sense at 70 BPM rather than setting your 1/4th kick/snares 2 measures apart at 140 BPM.

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Also for the appregiator, if you set it 1/32 rather than the default 1/16 as is on most synths, the whole thing should sound a lot better for you and make your sequencing easier at the traditional 1/4 70 BPM.
 
To me there the same tempo , you can automate everything at 70 bpm the way you can on 140 bpm ... but I do agree to some it can be easier as far as trap beats got to create your drum patterns
 
Definitively, if you set the BPM to 140 and stretch everything out, the final beat will still actually be 70bpm. The BPM is determined by "beats per minute" so it's like a lowest common denominator type deal. 16 bars on your 70bpm "beat" is still 16 bars even if your screen tells you it's 32 bars at 140bpm.
 
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