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GTA 6 soundtrack: Justice and the game’s original score

GTA 6 soundtrack: Justice as composers, the making of Flower in a Hurricane, dynamic music and a future score album. Confirmed facts and theories.

GTA6VC editorial teamPublished: October 23, 2026

Illustrated portrait of Justice wearing sunglasses against a pink sunset

Justice composed the original music for GTA 6. Rockstar has named the duo and described the score as dynamic, but has not explained how it changes during play. Justice’s music will also get its own album; neither its date nor its track list has been announced. The duo’s most detailed account of its work concerns Flower in a Hurricane, though one song cannot describe the entire game score.

An original score is music written for the action in a game. This article examines who made it, what the musicians have said about its sound, and whether claims about a shared musical theme hold up. Licensed songs and album singles are covered in our GTA 6 songs and artists list, while the broadcasts are covered in our GTA 6 radio guide.

Who composed the GTA 6 soundtrack?

On 15 October 2026, Rockstar explicitly named French electronic duo Justice as composers of the original score. Its members, Gaspard Augé and Xavier de Rosnay, are responsible for music for the game itself. Rockstar has yet to provide a full list of collaborators, the amount recorded, or a breakdown of individual scenes.

This clarifies their role: their GTA 6 work extends beyond a song used in the promotional campaign. The announcement does not establish that Justice alone wrote every piece of music players will hear in Leonida.

How Justice made Flower in a Hurricane

In an interview with Jack Saunders on BBC Radio 1, Justice discussed making Flower in a Hurricane. Tame Impala, SZA and King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard appear on the recording. The duo had long wanted to work with these artists, but did not begin with a fixed plan to bring them all onto one track. The collaboration developed gradually.

Justice sees common ground between Tame Impala and King Gizzard, while SZA brings a different musical approach.

The eighties influence emerged gradually too. Justice said they had not set out specifically to write a retro track. A sound in the song that resembles a guitar was made with a synthesizer; an ordinary guitar, they explained, would not have produced that timbre. This concerns one sound in Flower in a Hurricane, so it does not mean the whole game has no live guitars.

Justice is aware of the long wait for GTA 6 but tries to view the game’s scale from some distance so the hype does not interfere with the work. The conversation gives no number of hours of music or production timeline for the score. More from the broadcast appears in our separate report on the Justice interview.

Flower in a Hurricane single artwork: a pink and purple VI symbol with water drops and the song title

What we know about the dynamic score

Rockstar used the term “dynamic score” in its September album announcement and again in its October radio announcement. It has not explained which GTA 6 events change the music, how transitions work, or how free roam, missions and chases differ.

GTA V helps explain the term. In a direct Rolling Stone interview in 2013, Rockstar music supervisor Ivan Pavlovich said its score responds to the player’s actions through interactive musical layers. Music plays during missions and in the open world. He named Tangerine Dream, Woody Jackson, The Alchemist and Oh No among its composers.

That system let GTA V change its sound as events unfolded. But a description of GTA V does not reveal GTA 6’s algorithm. Claims about a specific number of layers, weather-based switches, separate versions for each wanted star, or seamless transitions between any two scenes need their own evidence.

There is also no confirmed list of individual themes for Jason and Lucia. Rockstar has not explained whether the music follows the development of their story. A recurring motif may invite comparison, but it does not show what triggers it.

Where the shared-theme theory came from

After the launch trailer, a Reddit poster compared the harmony of Flower in a Hurricane with music in the Raul scene of An Extended Look. They heard a similar chord progression in a different key. This led to a theory that the fragments might be versions of the same musical material.

The similarity gives listeners a reason to consider that theory. It does not establish whether the recordings are layers of one dynamic track, separate compositions, or an editing connection between trailers. Rockstar has offered no such explanation, and the comparison cannot reconstruct the game’s operating music system.

Is GTA 6’s main theme already known?

A fan upload titled “Official Main Theme” does not make a composition official. A June discussion comparing GTA 6 and Vice City music illustrates the problem: its author acknowledged that main-theme status was unconfirmed and said they had reused a familiar title from other channels. They had also manually changed the pitch of the Vice City music for the comparison.

That overlay is not proof of an exact quotation of the older theme. Rockstar’s checked announcements connect Flower in a Hurricane to the launch trailer but do not call it GTA 6’s official main theme. Music appearing in a trailer does not yet reveal its role in the finished game.

When will Justice’s original score album arrive?

In its launch-trailer announcement, Rockstar said it would share more about the official Justice score album later. The duo’s own GTA VI page also mentions a forthcoming score album and offers a news signup. The announcements checked on 23 October give no release date, track list or running time.

This release is separate from Grand Theft Auto VI: The Album, Rockstar and Atlantic Records’ music project featuring songs by various artists. Announcements about that album’s lineup and formats do not reveal the contents of Justice’s future score album. Its songs are listed in the article linked at the start; the relevant point here is that the composers’ music is getting a separate release.

For now, Justice’s page offers Flower in a Hurricane to listen to.

Where the Daft Punk rumor came from

On 19 October, the Has It Leaked account claimed that Daft Punk’s management had been approached about a final reunion for GTA VI music with a virtually unlimited budget. The same post called Justice Rockstar’s second choice. It provided neither documents nor a named participant in those discussions. In replies to doubts, the author pointed to their past record of music leaks.

That is insufficient to treat either the talks or the order of preference as established soundtrack history. Lack of confirmation also cannot prove that no conversation ever took place. This remains an unconfirmed account from one source.

A separate confirmed fact concerns Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo: Rockstar’s September announcement credited him as a producer of Travis Scott’s RHYNO. One Daft Punk member’s work on that recording does not confirm a reunion of the duo or change the announced composers of the original score.

What we know about score settings

The checked official announcements do not yet provide instructions for turning radio off while keeping mission music on. Exact volume controls, personal music imports and a dedicated streamer mode have not been described. Carrying GTA V menu names and paths over to GTA 6 would be premature.

To describe the score’s final behavior, we need Rockstar’s details on the dynamic system and access to the game settings. For now, the composers are confirmed and Justice’s own words let us examine the making of one track. The rest must be compared with the future album and the game itself.