Dave Chappelle and Neal Brennan learned about the Prince story from Rick James. During James' interview for the previous episode, he told the story about the basketball game between Charlie Murphy and Prince. They asked Murphy to tell the story on-camera and the sketch was quickly put together.
Jonathan Walker, who appears in the Law & Order (1990) parody, also appeared in actual episodes of that series as well as Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (1999) and Law & Order: Criminal Intent (2001).