When Misty and Colleen are having drinks they are wearing colors that mirror their comic book counterparts.
Bushmaster's friend offers him a cup of Blue Mountain coffee. This is a uniquely Jamaican brand of coffee, grown between 3,000 and 5,000 feet elevation in Jamaica's Blue Mountain region.
When Misty Knight visits Cockroach in the hospital she tells him she used to see murder victims outlined in chalk. While the practice of outlining dead bodies in chalk was in vogue a century ago, the advent of forensic scientific investigations in the early 20th century revealed that chalk or paint contaminated crime scenes. No one is sure exactly when it stopped, but it probably hasn't actually happened since the 1960s. Despite the passage of three generations, however, a chalk outline is still a widespread symbol associated with murder.
"Wig Out" is a song from the album 'Mecca and the Soul Brother' of the hip-pop duo Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth.
The housing complex that Mariah is fundraising for is named the Shirley Chisholm Complex. It seems to be named after Shirley Anita Chisholm, the first black woman to be elected to the US Congress. She represented New York's 12th district, which includes parts of Brooklyn.