10 Famous Songs That Were Somehow Recorded In A Single Take

7. 2Pac - Hail Mary

Hail Mary is notable for being the last single released by 2Pac from his final album The Don Killuminati: The 7 Day Theory (at the time, Tupac was going by the new alias Makaveli). But what's even more notable is how fast the song was written and recorded.

Though many of the songs on this list were recorded quickly, there was still an extremely laboured writing process, or the song was simply a cover of an already-written song. Not in the case of Hail Mary, however, which was apparently written and recorded in less than a single hour.

Apparently it took 2Pac about fifteen minutes to write the song, and the beat was created by producer Hurt-M-Badd in around five. After that, all that remained was for 2Pac to capture it, which he did in a single take, switching the location of the song's hook moments before recording.