Early career In 2006 Maize founded Näkturnal, a Pittsburgh-based guerrilla marketing firm. The album became the featured album for
FrostWire, where she became the Most Downloaded Artist on FrostWire, with over 135,000 full album downloads in one month. At the time, the success of this album helped her become the most-downloaded artist on
Amazon. In June 2011, she performed at
Bonnaroo in
Tennessee. She performed a 45-minute setlist along with long-time collaborator DJ Huggy. Maize then began work on her fourth studio album and released the single "
Google Female Rapper", a freestyle over
Twista’s popular song, "Overnight Celebrity". During an interview in 2012 with
XXL, Maize said she would like to change hip hop by "rapping and singing about things that aren’t found in mainstream hip-hop like yoga, environmentalism, oneness, spirituality, beings from other dimensions, and indigenous wisdom." Maize's fourth album,
Owl Time, was released on December 12, 2012. Her fifth album,
The 5th Element, was officially released on Valentine's Day 2014. The album had been available exclusively to the
Jamendo community 10 days prior. By February 15,
The 5th Element had gathered over 90,000 plays and over 6,000 downloads on Jamendo. The main theme of
The 5th Element has been cited as love. The album design features over 1,000 fans that sent pictures of themselves displaying love in whatever way they saw fit. Her sixth album,
The Remixes, was released in 2015 and released nine remixes of Maize's songs. She launched her acting career in June 2017, appearing as the character Popp in the Adult Swim show
Decker. ==Personal life==