An attorney named Benjamin Donovan represents Cottonmouth while he is being questioned by the NYPD. He is the same lawyer who represents Wilson Fisk in Daredevil (2015).
Cottonmouth calls Luke Cage "Harlem's Captain America." Although Cornell "Cottonmouth" Stokes is an adversary of Luke Cage in the original comics, there was another character from the Marvel Comics, Burchell Clemens, who was also called Cottonmouth. He was a villain to Captain America.
This is the only episode of the season to contain all seven regular cast members.
The book Luke places in his bag when he is getting ready to go into hiding is Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison.
The episode's title is the name of Gang Starr's song from the album No More Mr. Nice Guy.