CHOPS is the
stage name of
Scott Jung, also known as
Scott Chops Jung, an
Asian American hip hop producer,
rapper and former member of the Asian American Hip-Hop group, the
Mountain Brothers. Jung grew up in
Philadelphia and has Chinese ancestry. While with Mountain Brothers, he became known for using a combination of programmed and live instruments in his work, as opposed to sampling the work of others. Since the disbanding of the Mountain Brothers, CHOPS has worked primarily as a producer, with his most high profile piece being the critically acclaimed 2011 video for
Lonely Island entitled "The Creep."