Rapper | Activist | Educator

jason chu speaks hope and healing in a hurting world, matching high energy performances with hard-hitting lyricism. As a kid in suburban Delaware, he found a vocabulary for racial identity and liberation in hip-hop culture. He now tours extensively, bringing a clear and urgent voice to stages around the country and globally:

• Curated in the LA County Department of Arts and Culture public installation Illuminate LA: Collective Memory (2023)
• Artist Fellow, Japanese American National Museum (2021-2022)
• Presented on the National Mall (In America: Remember, 2021)
• Curated in the LA City Department of Cultural Affairs virtual exhibition Reimagine Public Art: House and Home (2021)
• Presented, Flushing Town Hall and the Nate Holden Performing Arts Center‍
• Featured in the Chinese American Museum of Los Angeles‍

jason's music has been heard on American Born Chinese (Disney+), Joy Ride (2023), Warrior (HBO/Max), Mayans M.C. (FX), Kung Fu (The CW), Tetris Beat (Apple Arcade), Snowpiercer (TNT), and Wu Assassins (Netflix).

As an expert on Asian American identity and hip-hop culture, jason has spoken at colleges, conferences, and beyond:

• Presenter, JACL National Conference (2023)
• Keynote, APIDA Graduation, Los Angeles Community College District (2023)
• Lecturer, Inaugural Elaine Wong Distinguished Lecture Program at Brandeis (2023)
• Keynote, East Coast Asian American Student Union conference (2023) [text]
• Keynote, Men of Color Action Network Conference (2023) [Text | Video]
• Member, LA Mayor's Office 1871 Memorial Steering Committee and Selection Panel. (2021-2023)
• Contributor, St. James Encyclopedia of Hip Hop Culture.

Follow jason at @jasonchumusic everywhere.

Press

Press photographs can be downloaded here.

jason has been a featured guest on podcasts including:

• Western Edition: LA Chinatown
• The Disruptors with Nancy Wang Yuen
• OACC PRESENTS: Let's Talk Asian-Black Solidarity Through Hip-Hop
• The Sifu Mimi Chan Show
• Spark the Future with Joanne Tabellija-Murphy
• What's Up, CAPAW?
• Dear Asian Americans
• NPR Sacramento
• ‍Asian America: The Ken Fong Podcast

His work as a rapper and Asian American cultural expert has been covered by

• Nextshark, ‘We here and we rappin’: Bay Area seniors welcome Year of the Rabbit with rap music video (Instagram)
• NPR, San Francisco Chinatown seniors welcome in the Lunar New Year with rap
• NBC Bay Area, “OGs stands for the Original Grandmas!” (YouTube)
• Bomb Magazine, Influences: Performing Arts
• LA Downtown News, Museum Combats Hate With An American Vocabulary
• Instagram, Reels We Loved This Week (Asian Pacific American Heritage Month Edition)
• Jubilee Media, Rappers Rank Themselves by Talent (Artists vs Audience)
• Scripps / ABC 10, Artists and musicians surviving pandemic with fellowships that focus on education
• LAist / KPCC, A Mob Killed A Tenth of LA’s Chinese Population. 150 Years Later, There's A Push To Remember.
• Jubilee Media, Spectrum: Is Hip-Hop Misogynistic?
• Twitter, #TwitterIgnite
• BBC (2), What attacks on Asians reveal about American identity
• VPRO, The World of the Chinese: United States‍
• Mic, "The Mahjong Line debacle is the latest in a long history of Asian erasure" (Jan. 8, 2021)‍
• NBC 2 (Boise, ID)‍

His music has been covered by

• Character Media, jason chu Returns with Introspective New Album ‘We Were the Seeds’
• South China Morning Post, Asian hate crime: Asian-American rappers, actors and more join forces to fight back with album Face Value
• Fox 5 Atlanta, Asian American Hip-Hop Artists Create Album Dedicated to AAPI History
• The Communitarian, Rapper Jason Chu talks music, activism, and the Asian American experience
• Inverse
• Newsy, Hip-Hop History: Dropping The Beat On AAPI Artists
• Nextshark, Album Highlighting Asian American History Released for AAPI Heritage Month
• ABS-CBN News, "Pinoy, Asian-American artists unite in album against Asian hate crime"
• Hype Magazine, "Rappers jason chu and Alan Z Announce “Face Value” Hip Hop Album Highlighting Asian American History for APA Heritage Month"
• asian cinevision
• South China Morning Post
• Yahoo! Lifestyle, Check Out the Best Rap Song About Bao You’ll Hear Today‍
• ‍CGTN America
• ‍‍Eater.com‍
• ‍Character Media‍