“Light It Up” was first teased by Offset on March 1, 2020 with a post to his Instagram story.

The track leaked online on June 29, 2020, under the name “Richard Mille.” In Complex’s The Making of Pop Smoke’s ‘Shoot for the Stars, Aim for the Moon’, Steven Victor confirmed the title of the track and suggested it may make an appearance on Migos' next project.