The spiky onscreen relationship between Jim Belushi and Tupac Shakur was helped offscreen by the fact that Shakur liked to nail his scenes in one or two takes, and was annoyed by Belushi preferring to do it in multiple takes.
Jim Belushi played Frank Sinatra's "Fly me to the moon" for Tupac as a song to possibly sample for the soundtrack. Tupac loved the song so much that he felt the song should remain untouched and didn't sample it.
This was Tupac Shakur's last film, and the first one given full theatrical release after his death on 13 September 1996. His other film, Bullet (1996) made prior to this one only received a limited theatrical run late in 1996 before being released on home video, just before this film was released theatrically in August 1997.
According to writer/director Jim Kouf, Tupac Shakur was supposed to score music for the movie, but died before he could.
The film originally started out as a MPCA (Motion Picture Corporation of America) production, but MPCA were briefly taken over by the newly re-established Orion Pictures and all of the MPCA's line-up were released as "Orion" pictures.