GTA 6 Radio Hosts Revealed: Bad Bunny, Lana Del Rey, Slayer’s Kerry King and Tom Araya Behind the Mics

✅ CONFIRMED

The voices behind GTA 6’s radio dial belong to some of the biggest names in music. Rockstar revealed the first six stations on October 8, and Rolling Stone and Pitchfork named the real artists behind the mics the same day — including Bad Bunny, Lana Del Rey, Morgan Wallen, Burna Boy and both Slayer founders. With the November 19 launch just weeks away, Leonida’s soundtrack now has a star-studded cast to match.

Quick answer: GTA 6’s first six radio stations are hosted by real celebrities playing in-game DJ personas: Bad Bunny and RaiNao (Cocoteo FM), Morgan Wallen and Lana Del Rey (Back Country Radio), Burna Boy and Palms Trax (AfroBank FM), Kerry King and Tom Araya of Slayer (The Chamber 106.6), Robyn and Alex Consani (Flash FM), and Trick Daddy and Trina (Dirty South Classics).

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Key takeaways

• Rockstar revealed the first six GTA 6 radio stations on October 8, 2026, and Rolling Stone and Pitchfork named the real artists behind each DJ persona the same day.
• The lineup pairs in-game DJ names with genuine celebrity voices: Bad Bunny, Lana Del Rey, Morgan Wallen, Burna Boy, Robyn, Slayer’s Kerry King and Tom Araya, and Miami rap legends Trick Daddy and Trina.
• Lana Del Rey’s husband Jeremy Dufrene also appears, as a swamp weatherman reporting from an airboat on Back Country Radio.
• Celebrity DJs are a GTA tradition — Iggy Pop hosted in GTA IV and Kenny Loggins in GTA V — but this is the first launch lineup where all six revealed stations have star voices.
• This is only the first wave: Rockstar says more stations, including classic rock and talk radio, are still to come.

Who is actually hosting the GTA 6 radio stations?

Every one of the six announced stations has two celebrity voices behind its in-game DJ personas. Bad Bunny and RaiNao voice El Martillo and La Gata on Cocoteo FM; Morgan Wallen and Lana Del Rey voice MW and Delta Dawne on Back Country Radio; Burna Boy and Palms Trax are Burna and Palmsy on AfroBank FM; Kerry King and Tom Araya are DJ Kerry and DJ Tom on The Chamber 106.6; Robyn and Alex Consani host Flash FM; and Trick Daddy and Trina host Dirty South Classics. Lana Del Rey’s husband Jeremy Dufrene — an airboat captain in real life — voices roving reporter Mud Dog Mike.

Rockstar listed the DJs on October 8 by their on-air names only; the real artists behind them were named the same day by Rolling Stone and Pitchfork, with two of the artists giving quotes about the gig.

What songs are previewed on each station?

Rockstar’s music page previews only a handful of tracks per station, but the tasters already span dembow to outlaw country to speed metal. Cocoteo FM includes Bad Bunny’s “EoO”; Back Country Radio plays Loretta Lynn and David Allan Coe; The Chamber 106.6 runs Black Sabbath, Pantera and Slayer; Flash FM samples Charli xcx, MGMT, Zara Larsson and PinkPantheress; Dirty South Classics has David Banner, JT Money and DJ Khaled. Treat these as tasters — Rockstar has not published full tracklists.

For the six-station reveal itself, see our GTA 6 first six radio stations revealed article, and for the 34-track original album arriving November 19, our GTA 6 soundtrack and album guide.

What did the artists say about hosting GTA 6 radio?

Lana Del Rey told Rolling Stone the part felt “super special and a privilege,” and recalled that relatives who first came to Los Angeles already knew the roads from playing GTA. RaiNao told Pitchfork that Cocoteo FM gets her people’s slang, music and traditions right — a line that frames the Latin station as a cultural win for Puerto Rican listeners, not just a playlist.

The quotes matter because they signal how Rockstar is positioning the lineup: not as background noise, but as a cast members care about. When the artists talk about their own communities hearing themselves in Leonida, the station stops being a genre tag and becomes part of the world’s identity.

How does this compare to celebrity DJs in past GTA games?

Celebrity DJs are a series tradition, but the GTA 6 first wave goes bigger than any previous launch lineup. GTA IV had Iggy Pop hosting Liberty Rock Radio, and GTA V put Kenny Loggins on Los Santos Rock Radio, alongside Cara Delevingne on Non-Stop-Pop, Frank Ocean and Danny McBride. The difference this time is concentration: all six announced stations open with star voices, and several of them are among the most-streamed artists on the planet.

There is also a world-building thread the past games didn’t lean on as hard. Back Country Radio broadcasts to the Grassrivers and Port Gellhorn — two of the six regions in our GTA 6 Leonida map guide — and Mud Dog Mike’s airboat weather reports sell the swamps as a place with its own media culture. The stations are written for corners of the state, not just genres.

Is this the full GTA 6 radio lineup?

No. Rockstar has framed this as the first wave and says the game will have the biggest and widest-ranging selection of in-game radio yet — classic rock and talk radio options are already confirmed as coming. Combined with the 34-track original album and series-first on-demand podcasts playable on foot, the six stations are the opening act, not the whole dial.

The radio and podcasts play through Jason and Lucia’s phones with headphones or earbuds, so the dial follows them out of the car — a series first that turns music from a driving feature into an always-on layer of the world. See our GTA 6 gameplay and new mechanics hub for how the phone systems work.

What this means

Rockstar understands something simple: in GTA, radio is half the city’s personality, and a star on the mic is a headline on its own. Announcing the six stations with playable previews was a mid-October marketing beat with no trailer attached — and the celebrity reveals, via Rolling Stone and Pitchfork, turned it into a music-press story that reached people who don’t read gaming sites. That’s deliberate reach: six weeks from launch, every wave of news needs to find a new audience.

The bigger signal is density. Star DJs plus on-foot listening plus podcasts plus a 34-track album plus more stations still to come means audio is getting an unprecedented share of Rockstar’s launch marketing — and of the world itself. See our GTA 6 release date countdown for November 19 for everything else on the road to launch.

Frequently asked questions

Sources

• HeistAtlas — Bad Bunny and Lana Del Rey host GTA 6 radio stations (October 9, 2026)
• Keengamer — GTA 6 Reveals Its First Six Radio Stations (October 8, 2026)
• gHacks — Rockstar Reveals Six GTA 6 Radio Stations and the Series’ First In-Game Podcasts (October 9, 2026)
• Daypop — Bad Bunny, Lana Del Rey and Her Husband, Morgan Wallen, Robyn & Burna Boy to Host GTA VI Radio Stations (October 9, 2026)
• TrendzBetaGames — GTA 6 Radio Stations Revealed: Full Host List, Songs & Podcasts (October 2026)
• Instagram @itsjmaine — GTA VI radio stations & hosts rundown (October 10, 2026, 11K likes)

Every host identity above was verified against at least two independent reports of the October 8, 2026 reveal (HeistAtlas, Keengamer, gHacks, Daypop and TrendzBetaGames), which cite Rockstar’s official music page and the same-day Rolling Stone and Pitchfork pieces naming the real artists. Preview-song examples are limited to tracks those outlets name. In-game DJ billing names were checked against our October 8 stations article.