The character of Deacon is played by the actual drug kingpin Melvin Williams who was brought to justice by Ed Burns.
In the neighborhood where Cutty does yard work, the lady attempting to speak Spanish says something like "I want much less pills of redwood on this, and much more wide, a little. Yes? Thank you." It is nonsense, but you can imagine she's trying to tell them how and where to spread mulch, or perhaps where to rake up leaf litter.
The Sopranos episode titled "all due respect" aired June 6 of 2004. This episode with the same title name aired September 2004. The self-explanatory title with several quotes in each episode, where a character says in a conversation "all due respect."