John Amos, who plays Kansas City Mack, played Jimmy Walker's father in the television show Good Times (1974).
The name of the character played by Calvin Lockhart, Biggie Smalls, was later taken on as an alias for the late rapper, The Notorious B.I.G.
People say this is a sequel to "Uptown Saturday Night," but it's not. A lot of the same people were in "Uptown Saturday Night" but all the characters names are different in this movie & the movie is set in a different state than the first one. Sidney Poitier and Bill Cosby are still best friends in the movie but with different names, wives and different jobs.
Jimmie Walker's character name (Bootney Farnsworth) was used in Dr. Dre's The Chronic on the track titled 'The 20-Sack Pyramid'.
Final film role for Paul Harris