Glenn Plummer stated in an interview that men have approached him and said that his speech at the end of the film caused them to get back into their own children's lives.
While "Hoover Deuce" are a fictional gang, they are actually a parody of the real Hoover Crips/criminals gang in South Los Angeles.
Glenn Plummer and Bryon Minns would later appear together in the film "Trespass", three months later.