He has interviewed and profiled DJ Shadow, El-P, Flying Lotus, Thundercat, Freddie Gibbs, and Migos among others.
He wrote a weekly online column called Weediquette from 2012 to 2014 and produced and hosted the first episode of the web series of the same name.
His works include the James Beard Award-nominated series Bong Appétit,[2] for which he also composed the theme song, and the limited series Vice Does America on Viceland, as well as the Webby Award-winning documentary Mad Honey.
He was a writer and actor on the HBO series High Maintenance and co-wrote a film with Ben Sinclair for Fox Searchlight and New Regency.
[4] In 2022, Onyx Collective ordered Saeed's pilot Deli Boys, starring Asif Ali, Saagar Shaikh, Alfie Fuller, and Poorna Jagannathan.