Somebody Already Got Their Hands on the GTA VI Forces

Before anything else, the honest part: this collaboration has not been announced. Nike hasn't said it. Rockstar hasn't said it. Travis Scott hasn't posted it. What exists is a trail of retailer listings, style codes and leaked photographs that all point the same way — and pairs of the shoes, physically, in people's hands, ahead of the day they're supposedly for sale. Previously is reporting what the leak says, and labeling it as exactly that.

How a shoe leaks out of a stockroom

The trail starts in the least glamorous place a sneaker story can start: the back end of a shoe store. In late October, Sneaker Market RO reported that a Cactus Jack × Rockstar Games × Nike Air Force 1 Low '07 was coming, reading the "RS" in the product name as Rockstar Games. Then, on October 31, the leaker thesnkrsleaker posted a screenshot from Canadian retailer Livestock — two of the pairs sitting in its system at 165 Canadian dollars. The listing has since vanished, which is usually what happens when a store realizes the whole internet can see its homework.

What's listed, across KicksFinder's release calendars, Japanese retailer Fullress and Sole Retriever's published codes, is a three-pair pack:

• Black/Fire Pink — style code JJ7604-001
• White/Fire Pink — style code JJ7602-100
• Multi-Color/Pale Ivory/Black/Bold Berry/Fire Pink — style code JJ7603-900

Most listings price them at $130 each — one tracker still shows $120, which tells you how official any of this is — with an expected date of November 19, 2026. That date needs no explaining: it's the day Grand Theft Auto VI launches, the day half the culture has already taken off work. The expected channels, per Sneaker News, are SNKRS, select retailers and TravisScott.com, with matching apparel also expected — though Sneaker News itself notes some Travis drops have skipped SNKRS entirely. Expected is doing a lot of work in this paragraph, and it should.

The black pair is the one everybody's seen

Photos of the Black/Fire Pink pair surfaced on November 2 — the first look credited to @prm.stocks.01 and carried by Hypebeast — and they are not subtle. The black leather upper has the map of Vice City debossed straight into it. The Swoosh runs backwards, Travis's signature reverse. Wrapped around the toe is a pink-and-white money band printed like a stack of hundreds, "grand theft auto" written down it, and GTA is stamped into the midsole. Flip the shoe over and the outsole carries six pink stars in a row — a full wanted level, for anybody who has ever had the helicopters on them. A spare set of pink laces comes in the bag.

The white pair showed up the same day, in first-look photos carried by sneaktorious: clean white leather, the same six pink stars across the outsole, pink-and-white Cactus Jack bands, the spare pink laces bagged on top. If the black pair is the night version, this is the South Beach one — same jokes, lighter outfit.

The third pair is where the trail goes quiet. No photos of the Multi-Color colorway have surfaced anywhere, and sneaktorious notes it has already dropped off Livestock's release calendar while the other two remain — which could mean a later date, a changed plan, or nothing at all. On a leak, silence isn't evidence either way. It's just silence.

Why the timeline believes it anyway

Leaks this specific usually collapse or confirm within days, and this one has a spine the average rumor doesn't: Travis Scott is already inside the game. His track "RHYNO" — produced by Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo — sits on Grand Theft Auto VI: The Album, one of the first six tracks Rockstar released from it. He has been teasing the connection since September, when he posted a GTA-styled teaser and tagged Rockstar directly. And the pairing makes business sense on its face — Sneaker News frames it as Nike's first collaboration with Rockstar, landing on the biggest entertainment launch of the decade. Three brands with every reason to do exactly this, on exactly that date. Believable is not confirmed, though. It's just believable.

The part where you keep your money in your pocket

Pairs are already being offered for sale online, sixteen days before the reported release, at multiples of the reported price. Treat every one of those listings the way the wanted stars suggest. A shoe at a reported $130 being flipped before it officially exists is either an early-production pair walked out of a supply chain at a huge premium, or a replica built off the same leaked photos on this page — and nobody can authenticate a shoe from a screenshot, including the people selling them. The photos could also be samples: real, physical, and still not the final product. Until one of the three names on this box says the words, everything — design, price, date — can change or evaporate.