SATURDAY, OCTOBER 10, 2026
The tracklists are only half of GTA VI's radio story. The other half is who's talking between the songs — and Rockstar's October 8 reveal made one thing clear: in Leonida, the DJs are as famous as the artists they're playing. Lana Del Rey isn't just on the soundtrack; she's hosting a country station as Delta Dawne. Bad Bunny is El Martillo. Robyn has a mic on Flash FM. Slayer's Kerry King and Tom Araya are running a metal station as DJ Kerry and DJ Tom. This isn't licensed music with famous voices reading liners. It's a casting decision.
Thirteen credited personalities in all, per GTAVice's station-by-station rundown — the most star-powered radio lineup in the series' history, and each one playing an in-game character rather than themselves.
Meet the personas
Here's the full cast as confirmed by Rockstar's Newswire reveal and catalogued by KeenGamer, GTAVice, Just Jared and others. Every celebrity host is performing a DJ persona, not just reading as themselves:
Cocoteo FM (modern Latin — bachata, merengue, dembow, reggaeton): El Martillo is Bad Bunny; La Gata is RaiNao, the Puerto Rican singer. Back Country Radio (renegade country): MW is Morgan Wallen; Delta Dawne is Lana Del Rey — and Jeremy Dufrene, Del Rey's husband, voices roving reporter Mud Dog Mike, who reports from the seat of his airboat, per KeenGamer. AfroBank FM (African classics, amapiano, 3-step): Burna is Burna Boy; Palmsy is Palms Trax. The Chamber 106.6 (metal, '80s onward): DJ Kerry is Kerry King; DJ Tom is Tom Araya — Slayer's guitarists reunited on a radio dial. Flash FM (pop and dance): Robyn and Alex — Robyn herself, plus Alex Consani. Dirty South Classics (regional rap and hip-hop classics): Trick and Trina — Trick Daddy and Trina, the Miami legends.
Why the personas matter
GTA radio has always been world-building, not background music. The stations in Vice City and San Andreas are how a generation learned what those places sounded like — the DJs' banter, station IDs and invented ads are as much a part of the canon as the licensed songs. What Rockstar is doing in VI is the same trick at a bigger scale: the personas let real celebrities be characters in the fiction. Bad Bunny isn't "Bad Bunny playing his songs" on Cocoteo FM. He's El Martillo, a Latin radio host in Leonida who happens to sound exactly like Bad Bunny. That's a different, deeper kind of immersion — the celebrity becomes part of the place instead of visiting it.
The casting also tells you what Rockstar thinks each station needs. Trick Daddy and Trina aren't just famous Miami rappers — they're Miami rap history, which makes them the only credible hosts for a station called Dirty South Classics. Burna Boy and Palms Trax on AfroBank FM give an amapiano station hosts who actually live that sound. Slayer's King and Araya on The Chamber is the most on-the-nose booking imaginable: who else should run a metal station but the men who defined the genre? And Robyn on Flash FM is perfect symmetry — a station that first appeared in 2002's Vice City, presented by Rockstar as a Vice City institution, hosted by one of pop's most respected institutions. The personas are typecasting in the best sense.
The personal connections
The casting isn't random, and some of it is personal. GTAVice reports that Lana Del Rey has discussed her family's history with Grand Theft Auto — the franchise has been part of her world long before she was voicing Delta Dawne. Slayer's camp has expressed enthusiasm for their new radio station. RaiNao has reflected on her involvement in the Latin station. These aren't cold reads; Rockstar went to people who care about the game.
And the lineup may not be done. GTAVice also notes that additional voices appear to have been identified in the station previews Rockstar released — suggesting the final roster could extend beyond the 13 officially credited personalities. Six weeks out from the November 19 launch, there's still room for surprises.
You can already hear them
You don't have to wait for November 19 to meet these voices. Rockstar has released audio previews of all six stations on the GTA VI website's music page — El Martillo and La Gata bantering on Cocoteo FM, Delta Dawne holding down Back Country, DJ Kerry and DJ Tom talking metal. The previews are the first chance to hear how committed each celebrity is to the bit, and how Rockstar is writing radio around real personalities rather than hiring voices to match pre-written scripts.
There's a series-first detail underneath it all, per GameSpot: radio and the new on-demand podcasts (made for protagonists Jason and Lucia) can be played in vehicles or on foot, through in-game headphones and earbuds connected to the characters' smartphones. Radio was always a car thing in GTA. In VI, it's an everywhere thing — which means these hosts are going to be in your ears constantly, not just between missions.
Two different soundtracks
Worth keeping straight: this is not the same project as Grand Theft Auto VI: The Album — the 34-track collection of original music from Rockstar and Atlantic, whose singles (Cardi B, Fuerza Regida, Morgan Wallen, Rauw Alejandro and more) are already debuting on Billboard charts. The Album is new music made for the game; the radio stations are the world the game sounds like, celebrities behind the mics included. The album story is here; the original reveal report is here. This story is about the voices — and in GTA, the voices have always been the soul of the dial.
Grand Theft Auto VI launches November 19, 2026 for PS5 and Xbox Series X|S.
