GRAMMY-NOMINATED HITMAKER JUSTIN TRANTER LAUNCHES UNFAMOUS PODCAST
Grammy-nominated songwriter and producer Justin Tranter launches a new weekly video and audio podcast, Unfamous. Created and produced by Tranter and Morgan T. Stuart, the series pulls back the curtain on how pop culture’s biggest moments actually get made. Each episode pairs a celebrity with their collaborator who helped build their defining work and lets audiences hear how it really happened — the ego deaths, the rewrites, the tension, the financial anxiety, the instinct and the trust required to make something that lasts.
In conjunction with today’s announcement, Unfamous premieres their inaugural episodes, featuring a conversation with comedy’s sharpest minds Caleb Hearon and Caitie Delaney to unpack writing rooms, pitching, executive notes and the humiliation that permanently changed Hearon’s approach to stand-up. In addition, Unfamous debuts their first minisode with hitmaking songwriter and artist Ink (Beyoncé’s “16 Carriages,” Lil Nas X’s “Star Walkin’,” Kendrick Lamar’s “Luther”). Ink sat with Tranter to speak on fearless freestyling, learning from genius-level artists, crashing a brunch that led to writing for Beyoncé and preparing for her Stagecoach debut this year. New episodes drop every Wednesday.
“As someone who spends my life co-writing, I can never really tell the complete story of my songs unless my collaborator is telling it with me,” says Tranter. “Unfamous does just that. Bringing iconic collaborators together so the full story can be told. Shining a light on the creation, not just the outcome.”
Stuart furthers, “Justin and I are constantly having conversations about process, about how things actually get made versus how they’re perceived. We’re more connected than ever, but we’re also more overwhelmed than ever. We’re inundated with outcomes and highlight reels without understanding the collaboration, tension, and trust that make something truly great. Unfamous came from those conversations. We wanted to bring that depth into the open and cut through the noise with real context.”
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