Grand Theft Auto VI is building one of its in-game radio stations around a pair with long-standing Miami ties. Trick Daddy and Trina will host Dirty South Classics, a station described as a home for older Southern rap records within the game’s Florida-inspired Vice City world.

The selection is especially fitting because the two artists’ connection is bigger than a one-off guest spot. Trick Daddy’s 1998 track “Nann” helped introduce Trina to a national rap audience, and the collaborators also share songs including “Shut Up” and “Take It to Da House.” Their shared history gives the station the potential to feel like an actual hosted format rather than a playlist assembled around a broad regional label.

“Me and Trina been representing Miami and the South from day one… We still here, we still working, and we still making history,” Trick Daddy said in a statement.

Dirty South Classics is set to offer “a little southern hospitality” from its hosts. That phrase establishes the station’s intended lane: it is not simply rap music played in a game set in Vice City, but a channel centered on a particular regional tradition and presented by artists who have been associated with Miami for decades.

What Dirty South Classics is bringing to Vice City

In a Grand Theft Auto game, radio is the music and talk programming that plays while players drive or otherwise tune in through the game world. Individual stations typically separate programming by genre, era or on-air personality. Dirty South Classics appears designed around all three: Southern rap, older records, and a host team with direct roots in the scene the game is evoking.

The early music preview identifies several tracks associated with that approach:

  • David Banner and Lil’ Flip’s “Like A Pimp”
  • JT Money and Solé’s “Who Dat”
  • DJ Khaled’s “Born N Raised”, which features Trick Daddy alongside Rick Ross and Pitbull

Those song names are a preview, not a complete station track list. Players should not treat them as confirmation of every artist, song, interlude or recurring segment that will be included at launch. Still, the selection clarifies the musical frame: Dirty South Classics is being positioned around records with Southern and Miami-area relevance rather than a newly released-rap format.

That distinction matters for a game whose fictional setting draws from Florida. A soundtrack can use geographically connected music as scene-setting, but hosts can supply another layer of identity. Trick Daddy and Trina know the sound and public culture being referenced because they have been part of it. The value of that pairing is not merely name recognition; it gives the station a recognizable Miami voice to match its records.

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A collaboration already proven on the air

The move into GTA VI also follows a real-world broadcasting collaboration. Trick Daddy and Trina previously brought their chemistry to a morning show on Miami’s WEDR 99 Jamz, an arrangement announced in 2019 for 2020. Trina said at the time that the pair had discussed the idea before deciding to take the opportunity.

That background does not reveal exactly how Dirty South Classics will be structured. There is no supplied confirmation of particular sketches, interviews, radio-news segments, listener calls or the amount of dialogue players will hear. But it does establish why the duo makes sense as a radio team, rather than solely as two artists selected to curate songs.

For GTA VI, the practical implication is that station identity may come from the interplay between its hosts as much as from its song licenses. A playlist tells players what a station plays. Hosting tells them what sort of station it is supposed to be. With these two, Rockstar has a duo whose professional overlap spans collaborative records, Miami representation and on-air work.

Miami’s role in the station’s curation

Slip-N-Slide Records founder Ted Lucas also helped curate Dirty South Classics. That adds label-side input to a station already closely aligned with Miami rap. The available information does not specify Lucas’ exact responsibilities, the criteria used to choose every song, or the number of records contributed through that work. It does, however, reinforce that the programming has been shaped with knowledge from people connected to the music culture at its center.

Curation, in this context, means the selection and organization of music for a defined listening experience. It does not necessarily mean a single person chose each track alone. For a fictional radio station, curation can encompass the overall musical direction, the balance of familiar and deep-cut material, host fit, and the way songs support a station’s regional theme.

Dirty South Classics’ stated focus on older rap records helps separate it from the game’s other announced stations. It is a useful choice for a setting modeled around a Florida atmosphere because it gives players an option that looks backward through Southern rap rather than treating the entire genre as a single present-tense sound.

There is an important limit, though: “Dirty South” is a wide musical umbrella, while Miami rap has its own particular history and identity. The announced hosts and previewed selections suggest an overlap between the two ideas, not that the station will serve as a comprehensive survey of all Southern rap. Until a full playlist and programming details are available, it is best understood as a themed in-game station with a Miami-led point of view.

How it fits into GTA VI’s wider radio lineup

Dirty South Classics is one part of a broader announced radio roster. Flash FM is set to cover pop with Robyn and Alex as hosts. Cocoteo FM will be hosted by Bad Bunny and RaiNao. AfroBank FM is associated with Burna Boy and Palms Trax and is focused on African music.

The range shows a broader strategy than simply assigning one celebrity to one music genre. Different stations have different host combinations and musical purposes. Dirty South Classics is notable within that lineup because its presenters are both collaborators and figures whose careers are closely connected to the region that informs Vice City.

For players, the benefit of a multi-station lineup is choice without requiring every station to carry every aspect of the setting. Someone seeking pop can use Flash FM; someone looking for the Southern-rap throwback angle can use Dirty South Classics. This is a small but meaningful design function of radio: it lets a large open-world game shift tone on demand while the player is moving through it.

It also means the game’s music conversation should not be reduced to a list of celebrity names. The announced names indicate different cultural entry points into the soundtrack. In the case of Trick Daddy and Trina, the point is a combination of regional perspective, past collaboration and a station concept focused on older Southern records.

The soundtrack extends beyond the radio stations

Rockstar is also preparing Grand Theft Auto VI: The Album, a separate collection of 34 original tracks connected to the game. That project should not be confused with Dirty South Classics or with the game’s full in-world radio library. A radio station is a programmed channel inside the game; the album is a distinct release built around original music tied to GTA VI.

Preview singles for the album feature Travis Scott, Cardi B and Yung Lean. The track “That’s It” also includes Future and Metro Boomin. These details point to another side of GTA VI’s musical plan: alongside music framed through fictional broadcast stations, the project includes newly created tracks intended as a separate collection.

That split may be useful for listeners deciding what to follow. Players interested in the game-world radio experience should watch for station information and final in-game playlists. Listeners focused on original songs tied to the game will want to distinguish those album tracks from the older records previewed for Dirty South Classics. They are related to the same game, but they serve different formats.

What remains unconfirmed

The station announcement provides a clear foundation, but it does not answer every music-related question. No complete Dirty South Classics playlist has been supplied. There are also no confirmed details here on how frequently Trick Daddy and Trina will appear between songs, whether the station changes over time, or whether its broadcast material will connect to missions or locations.

Likewise, the announced preview tracks should be read as examples of the station’s direction rather than a promise that every previewed record will be the only defining sound. The combination of the hosts, the older-record focus and Ted Lucas’ curation involvement is enough to identify Dirty South Classics as a deliberate regional format. The exact breadth of that format will become clearer when players can hear the completed station.

Grand Theft Auto VI is scheduled to arrive on November 19 for PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S. For more GTA VI coverage, including a lighter fan story involving a poster request, see this report on a GTA 6 fan in Brazil.

For now, Dirty South Classics stands out as a particularly local piece of a wide-ranging soundtrack plan: a Miami-connected hosting pair, a Southern-rap classics premise, and a setting built to make that regional voice feel at home.