Chris Rock re-enacts his crack smoking scene (with the same facial expressions and wearing the same clothing) from the film La fortaleza del vicio (1991).
According to Charlie Murphy, after his first audition for the gangster Gusto, Chris Rock told him to act meaner. For his second audition, Murphy brought a real loaded gun to his audition and he got the part. The gun belonged to Ray Murphy Jr..
Charlie Murphy, who plays Gusto and is Eddie Murphy's older brother, told stories of his misadventures as a part of Eddie's entourage while on the set of this film. Those stories, which featured encounters with Prince and Rick James, would later be featured on Chappelle's Show as Charlie Murphy's True Hollywood Stories. Chris Rock revealed this in an interview years after Chappelle's Show ended and said he wished he had thought of the idea.
The rap group CB4 claim to be from the town of Locash. LoCash is in fact the name of one of the film's screenwriters, Robert LoCash.
At the end of the movie, there is a scene in which Chris Rock's character haggles idiotically with Isaac Hayes. This is a spoof of a similar conversation between the same two actors in Sobredosis de oro (1988), in which Chris Rock played a customer at Isaac Hayes' rib joint.