GTA 6 Miami Festival Lineup Includes Travis Scott, Cardi B and Justice

Grand Theft Auto 6 is being treated less like a conventional game release and more like a civic occasion—at least in Miami. Rockstar Games and PlayStation are planning Grand Theft Auto 6 The Festival, a two-stage music event at Mana Wynwood on November 21, positioned for the game’s launch weekend.

The lineup is conspicuously large: Travis Scott, Don Toliver, Kodak Black and Sofaygo are billed under the Cactus Jack presents banner; Cardi B is also set to appear; Metro Boomin is listed; and Justice will perform a DJ set. The inclusion of Justice carries particular relevance to the game itself, as the French duo is credited with GTA 6’s original score.

For a series inseparable from its radio stations, licensed tracks and sense of place, a real-world music event in the city most closely associated with Vice City is a notably direct way to sell the atmosphere around the game. It is not merely a launch party with a playlist in the background. The format puts artists associated with the soundtrack and score at the center of a public event built around GTA 6.

What is planned for November 21

The festival is set for Mana Wynwood in Miami and will use two stages. Its timing is also deliberate: November 21 is described as two days after GTA 6 launches, placing the event in the period when players will be forming their first impressions of the game’s world, music and Miami-inspired setting.

The stated roster spans multiple roles music can play around a game. Some names are presented as soundtrack artists, while Justice’s participation connects to the original score. Those are not interchangeable terms. A soundtrack generally refers to pre-existing or artist-led songs selected for a project, while an original score is music composed to support its scenes, locations, pacing or narrative moments. Justice’s DJ set does not tell us how the duo’s score will function in the game, but it makes the score an unusually visible part of the broader launch presentation.

That distinction matters for Grand Theft Auto in particular. The series’ music identity has long been tied, in broad terms, to the feeling of moving through a city: music is heard as part of the player’s routine, and genres help establish the texture of different spaces and moods. A festival cannot replicate that interactive relationship, but it can make the game’s musical identity tangible before the launch weekend has even settled.

The artists attached to the event

The announced bill includes:

Travis Scott
Don Toliver
Kodak Black
Sofaygo
Cardi B
Metro Boomin
Justice, performing a DJ set

Travis Scott, Don Toliver, Kodak Black and Sofaygo are grouped under “Cactus Jack presents.” Cardi B is separately included, while Metro Boomin and Justice broaden the program beyond that grouping. The source material does not specify set lengths, performance order, collaborations, the full soundtrack, or whether each artist’s music will appear in a particular in-game setting. Those details should not be assumed from the festival poster alone.

Likewise, the event’s two-stage structure is confirmed, but there is no supplied information on which performers will play each stage, whether the stages will overlap, or what the site schedule will look like. For fans deciding whether to enter, the most reliable expectation is simply a sizable multi-artist event rather than a conventional single-headliner concert.

Why Miami is the obvious—but still ambitious—setting

Miami is more than a convenient event market in this case. GTA 6 is closely tied to Vice City, the series’ fictional counterpart to the Miami idea, and the wider launch campaign is reportedly extending the takeover theme into local sports: the Miami Heat are being rebranded as the Vice City Heat as part of the promotion.

That is a substantial attempt to close the gap between a fictional game city and its real-world inspiration. It also explains why a music festival is a sharper fit than a generic branded pop-up. Vice City’s appeal is not just architecture or a recognizable skyline; it is an imagined city culture shaped by nightlife, radio, celebrity, cars and spectacle. A live performance event plays into that vocabulary.

The best game cities work because they give players small signs that life continues beyond the mission marker. That principle is part of why a city’s ordinary people and rhythms can deepen its emotional impact. GTA 6’s festival is obviously marketing rather than world-building inside the game, but it uses the same basic insight: place and atmosphere can be as memorable as a product’s logo.

How the ticket process works

Attendance will not begin with an open ticket purchase. Interested fans must first enter a lottery system. The entry window closes at 4 p.m. ET the following day, with the draw scheduled for 7 p.m. ET. People selected through that draw can then purchase tickets beginning Wednesday at noon ET.

In practical terms, this is a registration-and-selection process, not a guarantee of admission or a guarantee that a ticket can be bought. Entering the lottery is the necessary first step; being drawn then creates the opportunity to purchase. The available information does not state ticket pricing, purchase limits, age requirements, capacity, resale policies, accessibility provisions, set times or whether any walk-up option will exist. Anyone considering the festival should avoid filling in those blanks with assumptions.

The compressed schedule also makes attention important. A person who wants to go needs to register before the stated cutoff, watch for the draw result and be ready when ticket purchasing opens. The launch-weekend timing creates a funny practical tension: the same audience most likely to want a GTA 6 festival may also be deeply occupied with a newly released GTA 6.

A soundtrack campaign scaled to the size of the release

There is an obvious promotional calculation here. GTA 6 arrives after a long wait, during which anticipation around the next Rockstar release became a running joke across game culture. The festival turns that accumulated attention into a physical gathering with established performers, a venue in Miami and an explicit tie to the game’s music.

But the plan is also a meaningful signal about the role music may play in the game’s public identity. Games often reveal a licensed-song list, commission an orchestral performance or host an afterparty. A full festival featuring multiple artists and the game’s credited score composers is a much larger statement. It suggests the campaign sees music not as supplemental decoration but as a major route into GTA 6’s tone.

There is a caveat. Festival billing should not be read as a complete guide to what will be playable, streamable or discoverable in GTA 6. The available information establishes that the event features artists from the game’s soundtrack and that Justice created the original score. It does not establish the complete music catalog, the number of radio stations, individual song placements or the mechanics through which players will hear any of it.

Still, the core idea is unusually clear. GTA 6’s launch weekend will reach beyond the screen, using Miami, live performance and its music contributors to turn Vice City’s cultural promise into a real-life event. For the selected attendees, the first weekend with the game may include both a virtual city and a very real two-stage festival built around its sound.