Creator | Rapper | Educator

jason chu speaks hope and healing in a hurting world. From his start as a rapper, he is now best known as a content creator, reaching millions on Instagram, Facebook, and TikTok with short videos on history, pop culture, and social commentary. (Creator Deck)

jason is a sought-after voice in media, the arts, and culture:

• Selected Creator, Independent Lens Creator Lab (2026)
• Guest Curator, (Be)Spoken: Poems from Our Asian American Voices at the Chinese American Museum (2025-2026)
• Recognized by LA County for My American Story, a Civic Season Storytelling Program with the Japanese American National Museum (2024)
• Curated in the LA County Department of Arts and Culture public installation Illuminate LA: Collective Memory (2023)
• Artist Fellow, Japanese American National Museum (2022)

jason's music has been heard in Valorant, Warrior, American Born Chinese, Joy Ride, Mayans M.C., Kung Fu, Tetris Beat, Snowpiercer, and Wu Assassins. He served as a cultural consultant for The Sims 4.

As an expert on Asian American identity and hip-hop culture, jason frequently speaks at colleges, conferences, and beyond. Selected engagements include:

• Keynote, NYU CMEP (2026)
• Keynote, AANHPI Month at Georgetown Day School (2026)
• Keynote, University of Michigan AA&PI Heritage Month (2026)
• Convocation Speaker, Cate School (2025)
• Orientation Keynote, Hunter College (2024)
• 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]
• Member, LA Mayor's Office 1871 Memorial Steering Committee and Selection Panel. (2021-2023)

Follow jason at @jasonchumusic everywhere.

Press

Press photographs can be found here.

jason has been a featured guest on podcasts including:

• Front Row Live, "jason chu on the Creative Process for New Album We Were The Seeds"
• 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

His work as an artist and Asian American cultural expert has been covered by

• GameSpot, How Rap Music And Family Photos Elevated The Sims 4's For Rent Expansion
• 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)
• 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.
• VPRO, The World of the Chinese: United States‍‍

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
• Inverse
• Newsy, Hip-Hop History: Dropping The Beat On AAPI Artists
• Nextshark, Album Highlighting Asian American History Released for AAPI Heritage Month
• South China Morning Post
• Yahoo! Lifestyle, Check Out the Best Rap Song About Bao You’ll Hear Today‍
• ‍Eater.com