Justice and the GTA 6 Score: “Flower in a Hurricane” and Rockstar’s Music History

Rockstar’s GTA 6 Launch Trailer, posted October 15 at 9 a.m. ET, answered one of the last big music questions. The French duo Justice are the game’s “original score composers,” and the trailer debuted their new single, “Flower in a Hurricane,” featuring Tame Impala, SZA, and King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard.

That’s new for GTA: a single, famous act credited with the score. Here’s what Rockstar has confirmed, how it handled scores on GTA 5 and Red Dead Redemption 2, and what’s still missing.

What Rockstar Announced

Rockstar’s Launch Trailer page says it features “the debut of ‘Flower in a Hurricane’ from original score composers Justice,” with Tame Impala, SZA, and King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard (Official). The 90-second trailer’s YouTube description says it “was captured entirely in-game from a PlayStation 5.”

At 11:18 a.m. ET, Rockstar posted on X that the song is “the new standalone single from original score composers Justice,” “featured in the GTAVI Launch Trailer and on GTAVI: The Album.” A minute later: “Stay tuned for more information on Justice’s official score album” (Official).

Rolling Stone UK reported that Justice “have written a full-length score for the game” and called the track “the first single from the score” (Reported). Rockstar’s own wording is a “standalone single” that’s also on The Album, so how it relates to the score album is still open.

Where It Fits: The Album

Rockstar announced Grand Theft Auto VI: The Album on September 17, “created in partnership with Atlantic Records,” with “34 original tracks,” out November 19 alongside the game (Official). The same post said: “Stay tuned for more details about the music of Grand Theft Auto VI, including the dynamic score, the next evolution of in-game radio, and more.”

Its official store sells a limited-edition vinyl at $124.98 with “two transparent magenta discs filled with blue liquid” (Official). That’s the licensed album, not Justice’s score.

Rockstar’s Score History

GTA 5 (2013). Rockstar didn’t give the score to one act. Its music supervisor Ivan Pavlovich told Rolling Stone, as Pitchfork reported on August 28, 2013, that the score was split three ways: Tangerine Dream, The Alchemist and Oh No, and Woody Jackson (Reported). “It’s completely dynamic, and engineered very similar to what we’ve done in the past with our interactive stem system – it responds to what you’re doing with your character,” he said. Each composer’s music would be triggered by a character or an area, but “you’re always hearing elements from the other composers.” He also said the game had “somewhere in the proximity of 20 movies worth of score.”

Red Dead Redemption 2 (2018). Woody Jackson was the main composer. The score album came out well after the game: Lakeshore Records released the soundtrack, produced by Daniel Lanois, in July 2019, and The Music of Red Dead Redemption 2: Original Score on August 9, 2019, Pitchfork reported (Reported). It included music from Jackson, Arca, Colin Stetson and others. Jackson called it “a living soundscape for a wildly diverse cross section of 19th century America.”

The pattern, then: a dynamic, layered score built for the game, and a score album released separately from the main soundtrack. For RDR2 that was about nine months after launch. Whether GTA 6 does the same is Not confirmed.

What’s Different This Time

• One named act. GTA 5 split the score between three teams. GTA 6 credits Justice as “original score composers” (Official).
• A single before launch. This time a score composer’s single led the final trailer (Official).
• Guests. Tame Impala, SZA, and King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard are credited on the song (Official).

What We Don’t Know

• The score album’s release date (Not confirmed).
• Its title and tracklist (Not confirmed).
• How the dynamic score works in GTA 6, and how much music Justice wrote. Rockstar hasn’t said.
• How Rockstar picked Justice. No interview has covered it.

More: Justice score, GTA 6: The Album, soundtrack and Launch Trailer.

Official Grand Theft Auto VI Launch Trailer, Rockstar Games, October 15, 2026, featuring “Flower in a Hurricane.”