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Bad Bunny and Lana Del Rey Will Be Radio DJs in 'GTA VI'

Lana Del Rey's husband, a real-life airboat captain, plays one on the country station she hosts with Morgan Wallen.

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A driver's hand turns a car stereo knob while stopped in Hollywood freeway traffic on an overcast afternoon, illustrating GTA VI radio stations.
Photo illustration: A driver reaches for the car stereo in slow traffic on the 101 Freeway in Hollywood. (Photo illustration: The LA Globe)

Lana Del Rey's husband, Jeremy Dufrene, captains an airboat in real life. In "Grand Theft Auto VI," he'll voice a swamp airboat captain on the country station she hosts with Morgan Wallen.

Rockstar Games named the hosts of six featured stations for the game on Thursday, and the dial reads like a festival bill: Bad Bunny on Latin music, Burna Boy on African music, Robyn on pop and two members of Slayer on metal, Rolling Stone reported. Players will hear them in Leonida, the Florida-inspired state where the new game is set.

Back Country Radio is the family business. Wallen plays MW and Del Rey plays Delta Dawne, and they spin classic and outlaw country. Dufrene is Mud Dog Mike, the station's swamp meteorologist and roving reporter, who checks in from his airboat. Rockstar's own station description, published by Consequence, also calls Mike Delta's "not-so-secret lover," so Del Rey's actual husband plays her character's on-air flame.

Del Rey has been a fan of the series for years, and one of her reasons is an L.A. one. The first time some of her relatives came to Los Angeles, they "actually knew the roads because of playing the game," Del Rey said, according to Rolling Stone. Earlier installments were partly set in Los Santos, the series' stand-in for L.A.

Here's who's on which frequency:

  • Cocoteo FM (modern Latin: reggaeton, dembow, merengue, bachata): Bad Bunny as El Martillo and fellow Puerto Rican singer-songwriter RaiNao as La Gata.
  • Back Country Radio (classic and outlaw country): Wallen as MW, Del Rey as Delta Dawne and Dufrene as Mud Dog Mike.
  • Flash FM (pop): Robyn, voicing herself, with model and actress Alex Consani.
  • Dirty South Classics (regional rap and classic hip-hop): Trick Daddy and Trina.
  • AfroBank FM (African music, from 20th-century classics to amapiano and 3-step): Burna Boy and DJ Palms Trax.
  • The Chamber 106.6 (classic metal from the '80s on): Slayer's Kerry King and Tom Araya.

A few of the hosts will get to play their own records. The sample tracks Rockstar listed include Bad Bunny's "EoO" on Cocoteo FM, Slayer's "Raining Blood" on The Chamber and DJ Khaled's "Born N Raised," which features Trick Daddy, on Dirty South Classics.

The radio won't stay in the car, either. The stations will play in vehicles and through headphones connected to the characters' smartphones, and so will on-demand podcasts for the game's two leads, Jason and Lucia, Consequence reported. All six stations can already be previewed on the game's website.

There's more music beyond the dial. A separate soundtrack album carries 34 original songs made for the game, and Travis Scott, Rauw Alejandro, Yung Lean, Keith Richards and Wallen, again, have already put out theirs, according to Rolling Stone. The album comes out Nov. 19, the same day as the game, which arrives 13 years after "Grand Theft Auto V," The Fader noted.

Del Rey plans to be on the listening end too. "Can't wait to get into the game and start playing," Del Rey said, according to Rolling Stone.

Source: Rolling Stone, retrieved October 9, 2026. Other sources: consequence.net, rockstargames.com, thefader.com.

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