At the end of the song, Kelly gives the listeners "a lil' preview of the remix", which includes only the first verse then fades out. The original "Ignition" was released first to urban contemporary radio stations although it never officially charted on Billboard in this manner at first. 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. 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". 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." 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", one of the songs he decided to remix, had its original ending shifted to the intro. The original "Ignition" was written for Kelly’s planned album Loveland after the album was leaked, Kelly renamed Loveland as Chocolate Factory, a record with several new songs and remixes. 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 number 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 was a major hit in the United States, Europe, Asia & 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.