Rockstar Games enlists Danny Brown and Skepta to host new Grand Theft Auto V radio station, announces GTA online update

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Rockstar Games continue to champion new and underground music with the latest Grand Theft Auto V radio station, iFruit radio, hosted by Danny Brown and special guest Skepta.

Photo: Courtesy of the publicist

The latest contribution to Rockstar Games and Grand Theft Auto’s long-established deep love and understanding of underground music and music culture across multiple games, iFruit Radio is the 21st radio station to be heard across the sound waves of Los Santos, Grand Theft Auto V and GTA Online’s fictional take on Los Angeles, adding to over 510 fully-licensed songs across a variety of genres and styles, and contributing to over 75 billion minutes of music heard by GTA players. iFruit Radio adds to the music legacy of the Grand Theft Auto series, with a diverse array of stations and genres featured in the series starting with the classic stations of Grand Theft Auto III including MSX radio featuring the seminal Drum’n’Bass label Moving Shadow; the Pop, Electro, New Wave and Rock stations of the ’80s-inspired classic Grand Theft Auto: Vice City; the mid-’90s Hip-Hop, House and Alternative Rock of Grand Theft Auto San Andreas, the early aughts Hip-Hop, Electro House, Dancehall and Ambient selections of Grand Theft Auto IV, and the underground dance music from DJ’s The Black Madonna, Dixon, Tale of Us and Solomun as featured in GTA Online: After Hours.

Initially released in 2013 as part of the biggest entertainment launch of all time, Grand Theft Auto Online continues to break records for player numbers six years after its initial release. iFruit Radio comes as part of the game’s latest free update, The Diamond Casino Heist, the biggest, most audacious and most complex criminal operation ever to hit GTA Online.

iFruit Radio is hosted by rapper Danny Brown and features special guest, British MC and producer Skepta, joining the Grand Theft Auto V’s roster of host DJ’s such as Frank Ocean, Gilles Peterson, Flying Lotus, Bootsy Collins and many others, along with GTA series DJ vets, Roy Ayers, Cara Delevingne, Iggy Pop, Juliette Lewis, Karl Lagerfeld and many more.

Tapping into a more global, urban sound with features from some of the most exciting artists from Lagos, London, Kingston, New York City, Atlanta and more, iFruit Radio features previously-unreleased songs from Baauer x Channel Tres featuring Danny Brown, YBN Cordae and Denzel Curry, Pop Smoke, and slowthai in addition to favourites from DaBaby, Megan thee Stallion, Burna Boy, J Hus, Skepta, Travis Scott and more.

iFruit Radio debuts this Thursday, December 12 in both GTA Online and Grand Theft Auto V, with full tracklisting below.

Exclusive Track:

Baauer and Channel Tres featuring Danny Brown – ‘Ready To Go’

Debut Tracks:

Denzel Curry x YBN Cordae – ‘Al1enZ’
Pop Smoke – ‘100K on the Coupe’
slowthai – ‘I Need’

Full Track List:

1. Megan Thee Stallion featuring DaBaby – ‘Cash Shit’
2. Freddie Gibbs & Madlib – ‘Crime Pays’
3. Skepta featuring Nafe Smalls – ‘Greaze Mode’
4. Pop Smoke – ‘100K on the Coupe’
5. slowthai – ‘I Need’
6. Danny Brown – ‘Dance in the Water’
7. Egyptian Lover – ‘Everything She Wants’
8. Burna Boy – ‘Killin Dem’
9. Skepta & AJ Tracey – ‘Kiss & Tell’
10. D Block Europe – ‘Kitchen Kingz’
11. JME featuring Giggs – ‘Knock Your Block Off’
12. Travis Scott – ‘Highest in the Room’
13. Yung Thug featuring Gunna & Travis Scott – ‘Hot’ (Remix)
14. DaBaby featuring Kevin Gates – ‘Popstar’
15. Kranium featuring AJ Tracey – ‘Money In The Bank’
16. J Hus – ‘Must Be’
17. Baauer x Channel Tres featuring Danny Brown – ‘Ready To Go’
18. D Double E & Watch the Ride featuring DJ Die & Dismantle DJ Randall – ‘Original Format’
19. Shoreline Mafia – ‘Wings’
20. Alkaline – ‘With the Thing’
21. Headie One featuring Skepta (Floating Points Remix) – ‘Back to Basics’
22. City Girls – ‘Act up’
23. Denzel Curry & YBN Cordae – ‘Al1enZ’
24. Koffee featuring Gunna – ‘W’
25. DaBaby – ‘Bop’
26. Naira Marley – ‘Opotoyi (Marlians)’
27. ScHoolboy Q – ‘Numb Numb Juice’
28. Essie Gang featuring SQ Diesel – ‘Pattern Chanel’


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Written by Manny King John

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