Hoover is a Bay Area Native circa 1970. Raised between Philadelphia and The Bay. He started writing poetry, fiction and video games at the age of 12, and studied writing under Linda Goss, Toni Bambara, Sonia Sanchez and Bell Hooks. A former writer for the now defunct but seminal 4080 Hip Hop magazine, he blogs and rages against the machine at deepculture.blogspot.com.