"Step in the Name of Love (Remix)" is a song by American R&B singer R. Kelly. Taken from the fifth studio album, Chocolate Factory (2003), the song became the 10th single from Kelly (and the final one as of ) to reach number one on the US Billboard R&B/Hip-Hop chart, and it also peaked at number nine on the Billboard Hot 100. In the United Kingdom, the song was issued as a double A-side with "Thoia Thoing".

The original "Step in the Name of Love", which is on the unreleased 2002 album Loveland as well as the Chocolate Factory album, describes a dance style initially created in Chicago called "stepping". The dance, and the music associated with it, was heavily featured on disc one of his 2004 double album, Happy People/U Saved Me. The song became an impromptu "anthem" for steppers and the dance.

Critical reception The Village Voice critic Robert Christgau found the remix of "Step in the Name of Love" to be "hugely engaging". However, he believed it was "cavalier" or "stupid" for Kelly, amid his child pornography charges, to declare himself "the pied piper of R&B" given the moniker's "pedophilic implications".

Chart performance "Step in the Name of Love" took 61 weeks to reach number one on the US Billboard Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Singles & Tracks chart, making it the longest trip to number one in the chart's history. The song has spent 70 weeks on the chart, making it one the longest stays on that chart.

Music video The music video is directed by Little X.

Track listing UK CD single "Step in the Name of Love" (remix) (radio edit) "Thoia Thoing" (album version) "Thoia Thoing" (Silk & Peoples Choice remix) "Step in the Name of Love" (remix) (enhanced video)

Charts

Weekly charts Chart (2003)PeakpositionNetherlands (Dutch Top 40 Tipparade)2

Year-end charts Chart (2003) PositionUS Billboard Hot 100 94US Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Singles & Tracks (Billboard) 25

Chart (2004) PositionUS Billboard Hot 100 78US Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Singles & Tracks (Billboard) 22

Release history Region Date Format(s) Label(s) United States September 2, 2003 United Kingdom November 3, 2003

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