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August 17, 2009

Samuel Ferguson, Hip-Hop Journalist Who Broke Rick Ross Correctional Officer Story, Murdered...

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Ferguson aka “P Man Sam” found himself in the middle of controversy in October of 2008, as news that Rick Ross was once a correctional officer began to the Internet.

Ross, who had known Ferguson prior to his job with Don Diva, took Ferguson to his Carol City, Florida neighborhood for an interview, presumably for the magazine.

The rapper became angry with Ferguson over an interview with Hip-Hop Weekly and for a Q&A with Don Diva magazine titled “Would the Real Rick Ross Stand Up.”

“Ferguson is a liar, he’s an informant, he’s a rat, he’s a b***h,” Rick Ross said of Ferguson during their feud. “I hope he’s offended; get at me in the streets n***a you know how we play. This s**t about to get Deeper Than Rap.”


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#1 mz jackzon says:

Damn thats fucked up if rick ross has anything to do with his murder he a bitch ass nigga hiw u get mad ova the truth nigga u aint a real gansta u a WANNA BE GANGSTA

#2 Donnie says:

When and where will the wake and funeral be held for Sam? He was a friend of mine and I'd like to go.

#3 PMANSAM_1stDaughter says:

Sam Ferguson is like the phantom of Miami’s Hip Hop opera. His perspective is crucial to understanding Miami and its superb yet stunted Hip Hop history.

Sam Ferguson is like the phantom of Miami’s Hip Hop opera. His perspective is crucial to understanding Miami and its superb yet stunted Hip Hop history. Sam pre-dates the Luke (2 Live Crew) era, which is where most people start when talkin’ about Miami rap/HipHop.

Luke rose to music dominance when all the dope boys and big money makers who financed the independent record movement were getting life sentences, long prison bids or buried in pine boxes. In the 80s and 90s, tons of cocaine rained through the port of Miami and the pursuit for pretty things and bloody money had every Tom, Dick and Tyrone trying to get their beaks wet. Superbly displayed by SuperBowl XLI festivities, Miami has become Hip Hop’s Fantasy Island, but most people, especially Miami folks, don’t understand how it got that way.

There was one brother who knows the story all too well. He navigated through several societies, claiming equal respect in them all. That man was notoriously known as P Man Sam (Ferguson.) Today he goes by the name Sam Silvasteen. He’s a walking time capsule of Miami’s past, present and future with an encyclopedia of knowledge and experience encrypted in his silver-patched dome.

As one of How Can I Be Down’s (HCIBD’s) key sponsors and a strategic ally in the HipHop Weekly publication with the Source founders, Sam is also the CEO of Miami’s newest OG label, Off Da Chain Records. Why OG? Well, their crew has nearly a century worth of music business experience between them. The first artist out the gate is One Monzta who garnered lots of local love with the group Polo Dynasty a few years ago. The first single Mr. Get Right is currently spinning on SoFla radio stations and gaining momentum. Monzta also happens to be the street conscious younger brother of Miami’s potty mouthed-"man eater"-material girl Trina. The master producer behind their boards is Ugly (for real, that’s his name.) Ugly produced that Ballin’ Boy smash hit for No Good that still blazes in NBA arenas and video game consoles today. Ugly also toured and produced for years with Luke (Campbell.) Also in Sam’s Camp is the dreadlocked Kayela Fleming whose been pushing music boundaries in Miami since Young and Restless were singing Poison Ivy. She’s concurrently is also organizing the return of the Hoodstock Music Fest with recently released (from the joint) DJ Raw.

But the Big OG in the Off Da Chain family is none other than the infamous (P Man) Sam Ferguson aka Sam Silvasteen."My label is called Off Da Chain, that means we free," affirms Mr. Silvasteen.

Sam, like an old school "goodfella" got married early (at 19) to the beautiful Daisy and began a real-life Bonnie and Clyde marriage that produced 3 children and ended with divorce in february of 2006 after 23 years.


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