[3][4] "Hot Pants" was Brown's final release under King's purview before he and the People label moved to Polydor Records.

In 1971, Brown's keyboardist Bobby Byrd recorded "Hot Pants – I'm Coming, I'm Coming, I'm Coming", released as a single on Brown's Brownstone Records;[7] Byrd's "Hot Pants" has also been extensively sampled on songs including "Fight the Power" by Public Enemy, "Fools Gold" by the Stone Roses, "Papua New Guinea" by The Future Sound of London, "Step Back in Time" by Kylie Minogue, and "Good Vibrations" by Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch.

The song was featured in the 2004 video game Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas on the fictional funk radio station Master Sounds 98.3.

[8] Byrd's wife Vicki Anderson also recorded an answer song, "I'm Too Tough For Mr. Big Stuff (Hot Pants)", for Brownstone.

Brown's 1998 single "Funk on Ah Roll" reuses the guitar and horn parts of "Hot Pants".