Playboi Carti's Ahh Yea Sits Third on GTA VI's Album

Playboi Carti's name is printed third on the back cover of Grand Theft Auto VI: The Album, next to a song called Ahh Yea. Nobody else is credited beside him. For a rapper who's spent 2026 walking onto other people's stages, that's the detail that matters. The Playboi Carti GTA 6 song is new music with only his name on it, and it's coming out through a video game.

The tracklist comes from a video shot by an X user called nxrcssist, reportedly a store employee, with a copy of the record turned over to show all 34 titles on the rear sleeve. Rockstar Games and Atlantic Records haven't put their names on the list. It does carry every song they'd already announced, in a running order nobody had seen, which is why Dexerto, GamesRadar and Screen Rant all treated it as the album.

It lands November 19, with the game.

Track Three, Between Yung Lean and Travis Scott

Ahh Yea is listed as track three of 34, credited to Playboi Carti alone. Justice opens the record with Starting From Zero, featuring Michael McDonald, and Yung Lean's That's It, with Future and Metro Boomin, runs second.

Then Carti. Then Travis Scott's RHYNO at four, the lead single Rockstar and Atlantic used to announce the album on September 17, made with Guy Manuel de Homem Christo of Daft Punk.

Read tracks two through four as a block and it's a familiar room. Carti is on Scott's FE!N, and Scott is on Crush, the second song on Carti's album Music. When Carti turned up at Anyma's Ibiza residency in August, the set worked Travis Scott and Metro Boomin records into a techno night. Whoever sequenced this album knew the crowd. After a French duo and Michael McDonald, the record hands its first stretch to rap, and to names who already share an audience.

The sleeve spells it Ahh Yea. No h on the end.

Carti Has Been the Guest All Year

Carti's last album, Music, came out on March 14, 2025, and no album of his own has followed it. What followed was a run of appearances on other people's nights.

He opened all three of The Weeknd's Amsterdam ArenA shows in July. He's on two songs on Ken Carson's Xperiment, deaf note and wedidit, which came out July 3. He closed ComplexCon in October with Ye joining him for three songs, and Ye brought him out in Houston on Halloween night. Even the CDs handed out at a ComplexCon booth that weekend, marked YT + PBC Vol. 1, were a shared billing with Young Thug.

BABY BOI, the album he named right after Music, has a title and a finish line behind it. DJ Swamp Izzo said it was done back in April 2025. It just hasn't arrived yet.

Rockstar and Atlantic got a titled, sequenced Carti song onto a printed sleeve before his own album got a date. It tells you how much pull this soundtrack has. November 19 is the one deadline in music this fall that nobody on the list could let slide, and Carti made it.

Written for Vice City, Not Pulled From the Catalog

Rockstar describes the album as "34 original tracks that capture the electric energy of Vice City and Leonida, from a genre defining artist roster." That line, from the studio's September 17 announcement, would make Ahh Yea new music made for this record, not a licensed favorite.

It's a change from Carti's last trip into a game. Fortnite made him its first music themed Blitz Boss on December 11, 2025, with two outfits and Jam Tracks built on songs he'd already released, EVIL J0RDAN among them. Fortnite borrowed the catalog. Grand Theft Auto asked for a song.

The album and the radio are separate rosters in this game. When Rockstar named six radio stations and thirteen hosts on October 8, the dial was licensed catalog, Black Sabbath to Loretta Lynn, with Bad Bunny, Lana Del Rey and Burna Boy behind the microphones. Morgan Wallen was the only host with a song among the album's singles. The album is where the commissions live, and that's the side Carti is on.

Dua Lipa and Lana Del Rey Share the Sleeve

Dua Lipa's Go Easy is listed at track seven and Lana Del Rey's Crazy for You at track 30, two more titles nobody had heard of before the video. Camila Cabello, Cardi B, Morgan Wallen and Keith Richards are on the sleeve too.

If the list holds, Lana Del Rey joins Wallen on both rosters. She plays Delta Dawne on Back Country Radio, and Crazy for You would be her song for the album.

Physical copies explain how all of this got out. The vinyl and CD editions are due in stores on November 20, right behind the digital album, and a sleeve has to be printed with every title on it. A streaming service can hide a tracklist until midnight. A cardboard jacket in a stockroom can't.

Carti's fans have been waiting on BABY BOI since the spring of 2025. On this sleeve, a new song of his is the third thing you'd hear, right before RHYNO, and its title is two words long.

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