Rapper-turned-streamer Snoop Dogg is the unlikely harbinger of (possible) GTA 6 news. The West Coast star has revealed that his old friend from Death Row Records, Dr. Dre, is back in action. Studio, recording new music for an undisclosed Grand Auto Theft Game.
"I know he makes great music," Snoop told Rolling Stone, when asked what Dre was up to. "And some of his music is related to the GTA game that he's coming out of. So I think that's how his music will come out, through the GTA video game."
Dr Dre has been working on his 2015 Compton follow-up for a long time, with new album Detox in the works for years. It's possible that Dre is preparing to tease new music, or even drop new tracks, via a Grand Theft Auto game. But which?
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Although this has not been confirmed, we can safely assume that GTA 6 is in the works at the moment. But it's not the only Grand Theft Auto game on developer Rockstar's current slate.
Grand Theft Auto Online is an ongoing project for next-gen machine developers and is gearing up to accompany a full remaster of Grand Theft Auto 5 on PS5 and Xbox Series X consoles. Then there are the upcoming Grand remasters. Theft Auto Trilogy: Definitive Edition, scheduled for release on November 11, brings games from the PS2 era up to modern title standards.
Dre's music was previously the most prominent in San Andreas in 2004, with radio station Radio Los Santos playing with his tracks Nuthin' But A 'G' Thang, F*ck Wit Dre and Deep Cover.
So could Dre go back into the studio for the Definitive Trilogy remasters, tweak those classics or add new recordings? Is he up to something for GTA Online? Or, more excitingly, is this our first clue as to what will be on the GTA 6 soundtrack?
Who knows? Maybe Snoop Dogg was just...enjoying life from a higher perspective when he talked about the new music. But if anyone knows what Dre is up to, it's going to be Snoop.