R. Kelly just blew my damn mind (pause) Just read this shyt...

[dj-method-x]

The most famous of R. Kelly's sex songs is “Ignition (Remix),” though the heart and the power of the song is so far removed from the central penetrative image—I'm about to take my key and stick it in the ignition—that I wonder whether its ribald core passes many listeners by and they just relate to its infectious sense of late-night revelry. “It's an anthem,” says Kelly. “Some even want to call it the national anthem. I don't agree with that, but I've heard it so much.”

“Ignition (Remix)” is also the most successful example of one of R. Kelly's distinctive contributions to music. By the time Kelly's career was starting up, remixes had been around, in increasingly inventive forms, for over 15 years, but R. Kelly was the first to release remixes that were basically new songs altogether. Listen to the R. Kelly song just called “Ignition” and unless you pay very close attention and notice a few common musical parts, it's hard to detect how it's related to the hit version.

Kelly then tells me a story about “Ignition (Remix)” that is so bizarre and counter-logical that I'll get him to repeat the whole thing tomorrow. It makes so little sense that I assume I have misunderstood. What he tells me is this: that he wrote the basis of “Ignition (Remix)”—including the lyric It's the remix to “Ignition” / hot and fresh out the kitchen…—five or so years before he wrote the song called “Ignition.” (It stayed on the shelf because, initially, he didn't think much of it.) That's really what he's saying: He wrote the remix of a song, with lyrics identifying it as a remixed version, five years before he wrote the “original.” In other words, the song called “Ignition”—which was presented to the world as the song that “Ignition (Remix)” was the remix of—was actually an R. Kelly-style remix of the song we know as “Ignition (Remix).” I talk this through with him, again and again, increasingly mystified, but he really does seem to mean this. “It's ass-backwards,” he admits contentedly.

But how could you have the melody and words for something that was a version of a song you hadn't written yet?
“You tell me.” he answers.

 

[O.T.I.S.]

Nothing confusing really

Artists often do shyt like this. It’s like a form of foreshadowing.

It’s like writing the end of a book before writing the entire book. It’s something he thought would be useful eventually, probably already had the idea of creating a song called ignition and just didn’t do it for awhile.


People forget, usually any type of genius doesn’t really think like the average person. Like the way they think is different even if they don’t have a lot of knowledge per se’.

Like the term “it’s not what you know but how you think.”

 

[froggle]

Kellz is a scumbag
but musically, he really could not be touched All his remixes were fire

Street dreams wid nas
Ignition
gotham city
i could go on and on and on damn Robert

 

[Malcolmxxx_23]

Ignition still sounds fresh

 

[Sad Bunny]

Make sense he probably had that lyric and Melody in his head and then just wrote that song and then later on he wanted to release the other song

 

[King Frost]

 

[O.T.I.S.]

Make sense he probably had that lyric and Melody in his head and then just wrote that song and then later on he wanted to release the other song

When you think about it, the songs were greatly different.

So he probably just wrote the second one first, then made a slower version and released it before the remix. Since it would make since to put out the slower one first

 

[keond]

He’s a scum bag but gifted musically.

I can’t sleep is the best original-remix combo I’ve ever heard. The original “I can’t sleep” is extremely well written. Especially for a nikka that can’t read.

 

[dj-method-x]

He’s a scum bag but gifted musically.

I can’t sleep is the best original-remix combo I’ve ever heard. The original “I can’t sleep” is extremely well written. Especially for a nikka that can’t read.

Remix is one of my fav Rawbert songs of all time



Even though he obviously jacked Babyface

 

[Legal]

Yeah, it really isn't as mind blowing as that article would imply. People write shyt out of order all the time. You have the idea when you have the idea. Sometimes you just gotta go back and arrange it so it all makes sense.

Now if you told me that Dave Chappelle wrote "It's the remix edition/of the the song about pissing" before he wrote the original........

 

[Cleansprite]

He want little girls hot and fresh out the kitchen

 

[Trill Bellamy]

Remix is one of my fav Rawbert songs of all time



Even though he obviously jacked Babyface

Mind was blown when I finally realized that remix is a continuation of this

 

[KingJay]

If he's done what he's been accused of lock his ass up, but gawdamn ignition remix is still my shyt
Step in the Name of Love is under appreciated

 

[Akata Man Bromo]

Protect our GOATS

 

[Boujee Bonita Braxton]

He's a fukking musical Genius that's how.