Sean Merrick, known professionally over his career by the pseudonyms Jacky Jasper, H-Bomb and HDV is a

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rapper, record producer and celebrity gossip

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. Merrick is best known for his work with

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under the name H-Bomb as a part of rap groups KHM (later known as

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) and 7th Veil, as well as for performing as Jacky Jasper on Kool Keith's album ''

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'' and the

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album '' Pimp To Eat''. In Canada he is also known as a major contributor to the country's early hip hop scene while performing as HDV, as well as for his 1990 single "Pimp of the Microphone". Under the moniker Jacky Jasper, Merrick also became co-founder of and major contributor to the tabloid news site Diary of a Hollywood Street King. The blog was credited as having been the first to publish

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status in 2014.

Music career

Merrick, performing out of

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under the stage name HDV, released his first album ''Sex, Drugs + Violence'' through Canadian

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ISBA Records. The album spawned his best known Canadian single "Pimp of the Microphone". That same year he also performed as a member of the Canadian hip-hop and dance music

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. The group was formed to protest

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decision 90-693 by which an FM station license was awarded to a country music station rather than a station featuring

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and

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oriented programming, which the city of Toronto had been lacking. The group released the single "CRTC (Can't Repress The Cause)" that went on to win the

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for Best Dance Music Video of the Year in 1991. In 1993 Merrick released his second solo album as HDV, ''Higher Deeper Values'' again on ISBA Records. HDV was known for pornographic lyrics and for dealing with subjects such as the life of black people in Canada's inner cities as well as racial-tension and politics. Merrick also spent eight months in a Toronto jail after being convicted of living off the avails of prostitution. Merrick moved to

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, then on to

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where he released the albums ''In Yo' Face'' in 1996 and ''Narcissism'' 1997 under the alias H-Bomb. ''Narcissism'' also gave rise to the single "Playa's Need No Love" with

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, which peaked at number 33 on the

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, making it Merrick's first charted single. Merrick met

and Ice-T and appeared on Keith's 1999 album ''

'' as well as the

' 2000 album '' Pimp to Eat'' under the moniker Jacky Jasper. Merrick, Kool Keith and rapper Marc Live formed the hip hop trio KHM and released their debut album in 2002 titled ''

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''. From 2002 to 2004, Merrick released two more solo albums under the Jacky Jasper alias, '' Keep My Shit Clean'' and ''Jacky Who?''. 2004 also saw the release of the sophomore KHM album titled ''

''. In 2005, Merrick served as a producer on

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's sophomore album ''Before The Waitin' Before The Hatin under the name H-Bomb. Merrick and Keith collaborated once again to form a rap duo 7th Veil. They released an album titled ''Stoned'' in 2008, featuring production from

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and guest appearances from

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and

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among others.

Blogging career

In 2009 Merrick co-founded the tabloid news site Diary of a Hollywood Street King under his pseudonym Jacky Jasper. Merrick would also become the main contributor to the site. The site was the first to publish

status in April 2014.

In the Media

On June 15, 2012, Jacky Jasper appeared on

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for the featured investigation into 1990's rapper Timothy Blair, aka

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. The two-part documentary-stye series titled "The Perfect Catch," credited the Diary of a Hollywood Street King blog platform for serving as a noted "message board" that connected a set of alleged online dating scam victims of Tim Dog. August 2016, mainstream news outlets reported Jacky Jasper had been impersonated by a noted celebrity stalker in order to "get close" to the

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matriarch,

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Discography

Singles Guest appearances

References

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