Check Out the 14 Songs Featured in 'Grand Theft Auto VI: An Extended Look'
Rockstar Games mixes classic rock, hip-hop, pop, electronic and Latin music throughout its 27-minute GTA VI presentation.
Summary
- Rockstar’s GTA VI: An Extended Look features at least 14 identifiable licensed songs spanning hip-hop, rock, pop, electronic, country, and Latin music.
- The selection includes Lil Wayne, Kodak Black, Depeche Mode, Def Leppard, Phil Collins, and several newer artists.
- The tracks are featured in the presentation, but Rockstar has not confirmed all 14 as in-game radio songs for GTA VI.
Rockstar Games packed Grand Theft Auto VI: An Extended Look with plenty to dissect, from Jason and Lucia’s criminal partnership to gunfights, driving, side activities, and a suspiciously detailed Florida-inspired world. One part of the 27-minute presentation deserves its own inspection: the music.
The Extended Look, released on August 27, 2026, was captured entirely from in-game footage running on PlayStation 5, according to Rockstar Games. The presentation originally debuted through Netflix before becoming available through Rockstar’s official GTA VI website and YouTube channel.
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Across those 26 minutes, viewers heard 14 readily identifiable licensed songs, moving through several decades and genres. Southern hip-hop sits beside 1980s synth-pop. Country-pop shares space with electronic music. Dominican urban music turns up alongside Phil Collins.
It sounds chaotic on paper. For Grand Theft Auto, that is practically normal programming.
Several publications that examined the presentation identified the same core group of 14 songs.
All 14 songs featured in GTA VI: An Extended Look
Here are the tracks heard during Rockstar’s extended GTA VI presentation:
- Birdman feat. Lil Wayne – “Pop Bottles”
- Sexyy Red & Tay Keith – “Pound Town”
- Kodak Black – “Skrilla”
- The Bellamy Brothers – “Let Your Love Flow”
- Def Leppard – “Love Bites”
- Depeche Mode – “People Are People”
- Captain & Tennille – “But I Think It’s a Dream”
- Prefab Sprout – “Cars and Girls”
- !!! feat. Meah Pace – “Off the Grid”
- Cliff Richard – “Devil Woman”
- Chimbala & Omega – “Se Me Nota (Agarrame)”
- Phil Collins – “Against All Odds (Take a Look at Me Now)”
- Aluna & Jayda G – “Mine O’ Mine”
- Elderbrook & Bob Moses – “Inner Light”
That list gives us a useful early clue about how Rockstar may approach music in Grand Theft Auto VI.
Anyone expecting GTA VI to function as an excuse to rebuild the soundtrack of 2002’s Grand Theft Auto: Vice City may be disappointed. Rockstar appears interested in something considerably broader.
GTA VI is not simply recreating the old Vice City soundtrack
Tracks such as “People Are People” by Depeche Mode, “Love Bites” by Def Leppard, and “Cars and Girls” by Prefab Sprout provide the kind of 1980s material immediately associated with Vice City.
The newer selections are just as important.
Sexyy Red and Tay Keith’s “Pound Town,” Kodak Black’s “Skrilla,” Aluna and Jayda G’s “Mine O’ Mine,” and Elderbrook and Bob Moses’ “Inner Light” bring the musical timeline much closer to GTA VI’s contemporary setting.
That matters because GTA VI takes place in modern-day Leonida, Rockstar’s fictionalized version of Florida. This is not the 1980s Vice City depicted in the original PlayStation 2-era game.
Rockstar therefore has little reason to turn the soundtrack into a giant retro playlist simply because Vice City is back.
Nostalgia will almost certainly have a seat at the table. Giving it the entire restaurant would be considerably less interesting.
The Extended Look suggests Rockstar wants Leonida’s music to reflect its fictional population, nightlife, regional culture, radio landscape, and generational differences instead.
The Bellamy Brothers can coexist with Kodak Black. Depeche Mode can sit beside Dominican dembow. Electronic music can follow classic rock without anybody needing to explain themselves.
For a fictionalized Florida, an aggressively tidy soundtrack would arguably be the less believable option.
Phil Collins has an interesting history with Vice City
One song carries considerably more Grand Theft Auto baggage than the others.
Phil Collins’ “Against All Odds (Take a Look at Me Now)” appears during the Extended Look, bringing the musician back into Rockstar’s version of Vice City in a roundabout way.
Collins occupies a peculiar place in GTA history because he previously appeared as himself in Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories.
Released in 2006, Vice City Stories included missions involving Collins and even allowed players to attend an in-game performance of “In the Air Tonight.”
His return through a licensed song in GTA VI is therefore a neat connection between Rockstar’s older interpretation of Vice City and its new one.
Whether “Against All Odds” appears on an actual GTA VI radio station remains unknown.
That distinction is worth keeping in mind for every song on this list.
Are these 14 songs confirmed for GTA VI radio stations?
Not necessarily.
Hearing a song during Grand Theft Auto VI: An Extended Look does not automatically confirm that the track will appear on an in-game radio station.
Some music in the presentation appears connected to scenes inside the game world. Other tracks may simply have been licensed specifically for Rockstar’s presentation and editing.
Rockstar has not yet published the complete GTA VI radio station lineup, soundtrack, DJs, hosts, or licensed song catalog.
Calling every track above a confirmed GTA VI radio song would therefore be premature.
The more defensible conclusion is straightforward: these 14 songs were identified in Rockstar’s official Extended Look presentation. Some could eventually appear on Leonida’s radio stations, in clubs, during missions, through ambient speakers, or elsewhere in the game.
There is also a small disagreement over the exact count.
Some Rockstar-focused coverage identified a 15th song, listing “Besito de Coco” by Celia Cruz, Johnny Pacheco, Justo Betancourt, and Papo Lucca alongside the other tracks.
Several other publications consistently reported a 14-song lineup.
Until Rockstar publishes an official track-by-track music sheet for the presentation, the safest approach is to treat the 14-song list as the commonly identified selection, while acknowledging that at least one additional track may have been detected by other outlets.
Music identification from a 27-minute gameplay presentation apparently has its own version of detective work. GTA speculation refuses to take days off.
GTA VI’s soundtrack already looks unusually broad
Licensed music has played a major role in Grand Theft Auto for decades because Rockstar rarely treats radio as simple background noise.
Stations help establish the period, location, politics, humor, and cultural identity of each game.
Vice City leaned heavily into its 1980s setting. San Andreas used radio to reinforce its early-1990s California-inspired world. GTA V expanded the idea considerably, eventually offering an enormous collection of licensed music spread across numerous stations and later updates.
GTA VI appears ready to push that variety further.
The Extended Look jumps between hip-hop, rock, pop, electronic music, country-pop, synth-pop, and Latin music without suggesting that any single genre defines Leonida.
That could make GTA VI’s eventual radio lineup particularly interesting.
Rockstar also has a much larger musical ecosystem to represent than it did when the original Vice City launched in 2002. Modern Florida draws influence from Southern rap, Latin American and Caribbean music, electronic nightlife, classic rock, pop, country, regional radio, internet culture, and plenty of stranger corners.
Trying to squeeze that into a handful of predictable stations would be rather dull.
The 14 songs are probably only a tiny sample
Players should not mistake these tracks for anything close to GTA VI’s complete soundtrack.
Grand Theft Auto V eventually contained hundreds of licensed songs, particularly after Rockstar expanded its radio offerings through years of updates.
GTA VI is expected to feature its own collection of radio stations, personalities, DJs, commercials, talk programming, and licensed tracks. Rockstar has yet to reveal most of that material.
The 14 songs heard during the Extended Look therefore function more like an early musical sampler.
They still tell us something useful.
Rockstar does not appear interested in making GTA VI musically dependent on memories of the original Vice City. The company is mixing older songs with contemporary releases and drawing from several genres that make sense for a modern version of Florida.
That is a healthier direction than turning every drive through Vice City into an involuntary 1980s karaoke session.
Grand Theft Auto VI is scheduled to launch on November 19, 2026, for PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S.
Rockstar still has plenty to reveal before release, including the full radio lineup and licensed soundtrack.
For anyone already assembling a GTA VI playlist months before launch, though, these 14 songs provide a pretty decent head start.
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