Rapper | Activist | Educator

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

• Work curated in the LA County Department of Arts and Culture public installation Illuminate LA: Collective Memory (2023)
• Artists at Work Fellow, Japanese American National Museum (2021-2022)
• Presented on the National Mall (In America: Remember, 2021)
• Work 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), Kung Fu (The CW), Tetris Beat (Apple Arcade), Snowpiercer (TNT), and Wu Assassins (Netflix).

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

• 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's 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

• 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

He has been a guest on podcasts including:

• The Disruptors with Nancy Wang Yuen
• OACC PRESENTS: Let's Talk Asian-Black Solidarity Through HipHop
• 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