We were like, ‘Okay, there’s a pattern here. Let’s just keep it going. It makes too much sense not to.’”

BROCKHAMPTON put out its major label debut, iridescence, earlier this year, but it was the SATURATION trilogy that first helped the group make a name for itself. The first SATURATION dropped in June 2017, and while it was quickly followed by SATURATION II and III, there weren’t originally any plans for sequels. In a new interview with Vulture, group member Romil Hemnani explained that the second and third projects evolved naturally as the group worked together.

“We didn’t set out to make a trilogy,” Hemnani said. “It was just something that happened. We were like, ‘Okay, there’s a pattern here. Let’s just keep it going. It makes too much sense not to.’"

The group would release both SATURATION sequels before the end of 2017, and ink a deal with RCA Records shortly afterwards. All three albums feature the face of former member Ameer Vann on the cover, who left the group in May 2018 following sexual misconduct claims against him. Vann publicly apologized, but said he hadn’t “criminally harmed anyone or disrespected their boundaries.”

Vann’s departure led to the shelving of Puppy, an album the group had already announced. This was the second album BROCKHAMPTON canceled, following the previously announced Team Effort in 2017. While neither project has seen the light of day, several group members confirmed that they still exist in an unfinished state.

Hemnani explained that both project are sitting “on a hard drive somewhere.“ Kevin Abstract, meanwhile, corroborated the news. “Those albums do exist,” he said. “They’re just not completed.” Considering both have contributions from Vann, it’s unclear if material from either one will end up being released.

Check out BROCKHAMPTON’s full Vulture interview here and catch up on all the lyrics to BROCKHAMPTON’s SATURATION trilogy on Genius now.