Justice Composed GTA VI’s Original Score — and the Soundtrack Is Becoming a Story of Its Own

Every Grand Theft Auto game is really two releases stitched together: the game itself, and the music culture that pours out of its car radios for years afterward. With one month left before Grand Theft Auto VI launches on November 19, Rockstar has stopped treating the second release as a side dish. On Oct. 15, the studio confirmed that Justice — the French duo of Gaspard Augé and Xavier de Rosnay — composed the game’s original dynamic score. It is the headline of a music rollout so stacked that it now deserves its own coverage, separate from the countdown itself.

The fit is almost suspiciously perfect. Since breaking through with their 2007 debut Cross, Justice have built an identity on exactly the vocabulary Rockstar deals in: maximalist visuals, a glowing cross for a logo, arena-sized synth riffs, and music that treats electronic precision and rock-theater scale as the same thing. A dynamic score — music that breathes with what the player is doing, swelling under a chase and settling under a late-night cruise through Leonida — plays directly to their strengths. Rockstar’s earlier teases had already woven Justice’s music through promotional footage, including August’s extended look at the game. The Oct. 15 announcement simply made it official: the duo isn’t contributing a track. They are the sound of the game itself.

One song, four universes, the entire trailer

The announcement arrived with a single: “Flower in a Hurricane,” a new Justice track featuring Tame Impala, SZA and King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard. In a break from Rockstar’s usual practice of stacking several songs across a trailer, this one track runs the full length of the launch trailer — Justice’s electronic textures under the intertwined voices of Kevin Parker and SZA, with King Gizzard’s rhythm section pushing underneath, landing somewhere between psychedelic pop and mounting cinematic tension. It is, effectively, the score introducing itself.

There is history inside the collaboration. Justice and Tame Impala already made two of the standout tracks on Justice’s 2024 album Hyperdrama — “One Night/All Night” and “Neverender” — and “Neverender” went on to win the Grammy for Best Dance/Electronic Recording in 2025. So the trailer song is not a random supergroup assembled by a licensing department; it is a proven creative partnership being handed the biggest stage in entertainment. “Flower in a Hurricane” is streaming now as a standalone single, and it will also appear on the game’s official album.

Thirty-four original songs is not a playlist. It’s a commission.

That album — Grand Theft Auto VI: The Album, due on Atlantic Records alongside the game on Nov. 19, on streaming, vinyl and CD — is the second pillar. It collects 34 tracks of original music written for the game, with revealed names including Travis Scott, Cardi B, Yung Lean and Keith Richards, and advance singles already out from Fred again.., PinkPantheress, Rauw Alejandro and others. Rockstar has also confirmed a separate album of Justice’s score itself, though it hasn’t given that one a release date yet.

Sit with the economics of that for a second. Licensed soundtracks are the industry’s default: you rent famous songs, the fame rubs off, everyone moves on. Commissioning 34 originals — plus an original score from a Grammy-winning duo — is a different bet entirely. It means the music of GTA VI can belong to GTA VI: unreleased anywhere else, inseparable from the world of Leonida, and rolling out on Rockstar’s schedule rather than a label’s. Combined with the score album, Rockstar is effectively launching a small record label’s worth of music inside a video game launch.

And then there’s the radio — hosted like a festival lineup

The third pillar is the one longtime players will feel first. GTA’s in-game radio has always been a character in its own right, and for VI, Rockstar has cast the DJ booths with working stars playing in-world hosts. Bad Bunny and RaiNao host the modern Latin station Cocoteo FM, in character as El Martillo and La Gata; RaiNao told Pitchfork the station captures “our vibe, our slang, our taste, our pride, our experiences, our traditions” — and called being part of it “mind-blowing.” Swedish pop icon Robyn and model Alex Consani take over pop station Flash FM, a name that will make Vice City veterans sit up straight. Lana Del Rey and Morgan Wallen helm the outlaw-country Back Country Radio — Del Rey called the gig a “privilege” — with Del Rey’s husband Jeremy Dufrene also among the voices.

Round it out: Burna Boy and DJ Palms Trax run AfroBank FM, spanning amapiano, 3-step and classic and contemporary African music; Slayer’s Kerry King and Tom Araya oversee the metal station, The Chamber 106.6; and Trick Daddy and Trina handle Dirty South Classics, regional rap and hip-hop. Previews of all six stations are live now on Rockstar’s GTA VI music page. And the format itself evolves: for the first time in the series, players can listen to stations and on-demand podcasts while on foot, through the characters’ phones — no stolen car required.

Why this matters beyond the credits

Games this size usually buy their cool. GTA VI is doing something harder — it’s trying to originate it, building a score, an album and a radio dial that are all original to this one fictional state. If it lands, the Justice score becomes what players hear in their heads when they think of Leonida, the same way earlier games fused themselves to their eras. Nov. 19 will tell. The album, the game and — eventually — Justice’s score record all arrive into the same cultural weather system, and for once, the soundtrack isn’t following the game. It’s launching next to it. More GTA VI coverage lives on our Games front, including the Zelda remake sharing GTA VI’s November window, and the artists above fill out the Music section year-round.

Grand Theft Auto VI launches Nov. 19, 2026 on PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S.