Some People followed his first endeavor, Pot Melting, and was broadcast on HBO in the mid-1990s, which granted Hoch more national exposure, allowing him to tour more cities to greater crowds.

Like the subject of most of Hoch's monologues, his writings often examine topics in hip hop, race, and class, and he has been published in The Village Voice, The New York Times, Harper's, and The Nation.

[3] Hoch appeared in Spike Lee's film Bamboozled as Timmi Hilnigger, a parody of Tommy Hilfiger, who proudly sells overpriced designer clothing to African Americans, claiming, "We keep it so real, we even give you the bullet holes", and advising viewers to "stay broke, never get out of the ghetto, and continue to contribute to my multimillion-dollar corporation."

He is also known for writing Whiteboyz, a limited-released 1999 film directed by Marc Levin, in which Hoch also stars with Mark Webber and Dash Mihok as three White Iowa teenagers who long for a gangsta rap life.

The film also stars Piper Perabo and Eugene Byrd, and rappers as luminous as Snoop Doggy Dogg, Big Pun, Fat Joe, dead prez, Slick Rick, and Doug E. Fresh.