Grand Theft Auto VI is set to revolutionize music handling in open-world games, if a well-known music producer’s recent revelations are true.
Speaking during the New Rory and Mal show, Grammy-winning music producer Jermaine Dupri surprisingly revealed that artists will be able to upload their music directly to an unspecified Grand Theft Auto game. While the music producer did not specifically mention Grand Theft Auto VI, there’s no way this feature would get added to the fifth entry in the series so late after its release, so there’s little doubt that this will be a feature in the game launching next year on consoles. Jermain Dupri also added that the rapper Drake will have his own radio station, and from his understanding, the rapper himself could upload music to the game that is not available anywhere, something that would turn Grand Theft Auto VI into a music streaming service like Spotify and the like.
While we have to take all the above with a huge grain of salt, it would definitely make sense for Rockstar Games to do something like this for Grand Theft Auto VI, considering how music has always been important in every entry in the series, and how the game is setting out to be the most successful game release of all time. I personally hope the option, if real, will be available to a wide variety of artists, as nothing would beat going around the game’s beautiful world with some pumping rock and metal tunes, bringing back to mind the days of roaming about Vice City with Iron Maiden’s 2 Minutes to Midnight, Megadeth’s Peace Sells and Ozzy Osbourne’s Bark at the Moon playing in the background.
Grand Theft Auto VI launches on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X and Xbox Series S on May 26th, 2026 worldwide.
