Ron Shelton said that he thoroughly enjoyed working with Master P, Kurupt and André Benjamin, and came away from the movie concluding that rappers tend to be natural actors.
The subplot of Gavilan trying to sell Jerry Duran's house to Julius Armas is based on Robert Souza's real-life attempt to sell Robert Evans' house to Dodi Fayed, who was in the music business at the time and for whom Souza did bodyguard work.
When the flare is thrown at the gas soaked car, we see a closeup of it landing, then flames coming under the car from the opposite side of where the flare landed.