The two songs share some instrumental elements (guitars and percussion) but are otherwise completely different. While it shares the song title with the original version of 'Ignition', the remix version is most commonly referred to in writing to avoid confusion with the original. The song is sometimes called simply 'Ignition' colloquially and for marketing purposes, including as the title of one of its releases as a single and on the Billboard charts.

You know 'trying to get you to my hotel/ you must be a football coach/ the way you got me playing the field/ So baby give me that 'toot toot, that beep beep.' You know what I mean? Just basically having fun with the song from there, once I tapped into the metaphor of it.' In a 2016 interview, Kelly claimed that he wrote the basis of ' Ignition (Remix)', including the main lyric of the refrain, approximately five years before he wrote the song called ' Ignition'. When I pulled it up, for some reason I just heard 'ignition' on it, so I start really just messing with the words and a lot of metaphors start coming to me.

On Genius, Kelly explained the song: 'First of all it was an old, old track that I had in my computer for a long time. 'Ignition' was one of the songs he decided to remix after people in the studio liked the end part of the song, which would later become the intro to the remix.

The original 'Ignition' was planned to be one of the songs on his forthcoming album at that time called Loveland the album got leaked later on, and Kelly decided to turn Loveland to Chocolate Factory, record mostly new songs and remix some of the songs on that album. The original song ' Ignition' was first recorded in 2002 after the alleged statutory rape tape was a hot topic in the media. The song was listed at #19 on Pitchfork Media's top 500 songs of the 2000s. It was later included on the updated version of Rolling Stone's 500 greatest songs of all time in 2010 at number 494. Outside the United States, the song topped the charts in Australia, New Zealand, the Republic of Ireland and the United Kingdom. ' Ignition (Remix)' peaked at number two on the Billboard Hot 100 for five consecutive weeks behind 50 Cent's ' In Da Club'. It is viewed as one of his most well-known songs and has been popular in the United States, Europe and Oceania. It was released in 2002 as the lead single from his sixth studio album Chocolate Factory (2003).

' Ignition (Remix)' is a song written and produced by American R&B singer R. Thrill your day with this amazing throwback song from R.Kelly titled 'Ignition'(remix).

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