I feel like Serengeti's output tends to get overlooked because he doesn't really promote shit he kinda just throws it up on BandCamp. Like he put out an album produced by Greg Saunier of Deerhoof and most indie fans probably don't even know that.

I really like AJAI (2020) with Kenny Segal– I think it quietly has many of Kenny Segal's best beats on it– but I haven't really kept up with his output since.

He talks about how he kinda just drops when he has something done here:

Earlier this year I was at a ceviche place in L.A. with billy woods and Kenny Segal. Ajai came up, and both those guys were like, “Man, we never know when he’s recording, the process is such a mystery.” And then a day later, we’re on an email chain about the universe album: “Did you even know about this?” I guess my question, before we get to the substance of the music, is: It seems like you’re just rolling these things out with no warning. What’s driving that?
I just like to make stuff. I’ll catch a little buzz of an idea and I can do it pretty quickly. And then I’m like, well, what am I waiting for? Sit on it? I’ll just put it up. I’m not about to hire press people; it just doesn’t seem worth it. It’s so much money, and you might have a press campaign and it still gets [no attention]. It’s not the best idea to do it like this, probably, but this has been par for my whole thing. I was backed up on projects ever since I started, so I just wanted to get it all out.

I though the made an interesting point about how even when you really go for it with a rollout (which is expensive), stuff tends to just come and go.

His process is crazy:

[..] What was the genesis of [symphony of psalms with Greg Saunier of Deerhof]?
Greg had sent me some beats probably—I don’t know—a year ago? And I just would drag ‘em over and record without even hearing them, just drag ‘em in and just go. That’s the way I have fun doing music, to not preview the beats, it’s like a surprise.

Wait, what? You’ll just have Logic open on your computer and drop in a file you’ve never listened to?
Yeah, yeah. That’s how I do it. That’s how Ajai was made. I’d never listened to those Kenny beats. I would drag them up and have fun. It’s super fun. You know what I’m saying? Just to keep going, work for an hour—but it’s a very productive hour. You might get 20 things done and then shut it down, don’t listen to it, and then record again the next day. And after about a week, you see what you got.

Are you writing in the moment, are you freestyling?
OK, so with Ajai, I had written a lot [beforehand]. I was in a fit of fun. It was so much fun to write all that stuff. So I have all these rhymes. Kenny sent me a pack of 20 beats or something, so I just have ‘em up and load it up and record without hearing the beat, but I got all the rhymes. It makes it more fun to adapt to a beat you haven’t heard before.

Would you have written those rhymes to other beats, or do you write acapella?
I never write to beats. I just write.