A Phoenix video for a song from Maze Overlay's 2024 album The Grid keeps the work in the Arizona scene it came from. "Imported Trees" features fellow Phoenix rapper Unorthodocks and is the seventh of twelve tracks on the album, which sits alongside guest appearances from Swab on "Traffic," Money Mogly on "Phantom Speech" and Griotnoy on "Passeggio." The clip was directed by Solute and runs on the Rarefied Air channel, a Phoenix outlet whose catalog also carries Solute's own music and joint projects with Unorthodocks, including Flyest In The League II and All My Homies Hate Trump. That pairing gives the video a local logic: the director and the featured rapper already release records together, and the song's lead artist is a Phoenix native. In a 2026 segment on KJZZ about a ranking of the seventy five best Arizona rappers compiled by the PHX Hip Hop collective, founder Coby Montoya described Maze Overlay as a Phoenix native and said he has put out roughly six albums a year over the past three years. Maze Overlay placed second on that list. Montoya also called the local scene fragmented, with separate pockets of artists who rarely connect, which makes a video that links a prolific Phoenix rapper, a guest from the Rarefied Air circle and a director from the same outlet a small example of those pockets overlapping. The Grid itself arrived at the end of 2024 as a digital album.
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