Only Raw Records in GTA 6: Boobie Ike and Dre'Quan's Vice City label explained
The recording studio at the centre of GTA 6's music storyline, who runs it, which artists are signed and what Rockstar has shown of it.
Only Raw Records is the recording studio at the centre of GTA 6's music storyline, and one of the few named businesses Rockstar has attached to multiple characters at once. It belongs to Boobie Ike, described on the official site as a local Vice City legend who turned street money into a legitimate empire spanning real estate, a strip club and a recording studio1.
Who runs it
Rockstar frames the label as a partnership. Boobie may look like he is out for himself, but the site says the venture he is most invested in is Only Raw Records with the young aspiring music mogul Dre'Quan Priest, and that the two of them now just need a hit1. Boobie's own line about the business is quoted on the page: the club money pays for the studio, and the drug money pays for all of it1.
Dre'Quan's bio fills in the other half. He was a hustler before he was a gangster, dealing to make ends meet while trying to break into music, and he has been booking acts into Boobie's strip club. Having signed the Real Dimez, Rockstar says his days doing that may be numbered as he turns toward the wider Vice City scene1.
The artists
Real Dimez are Bae-Luxe and Roxy, friends since high school who turned shaking down local dealers into money through rap tracks and a relentless social media presence. An early hit with a local rapper called DWNPLY took them up, and after five years and a lot of trouble they are signed to Only Raw Records hoping lightning strikes twice1.
What Rockstar has shown
Several official screenshots are captioned inside a recording studio: a group gathered around equipment with Dre'Quan standing beside a seated engineer, Bae-Luxe sitting in the booth holding headphones, and the Real Dimez speaking into microphones1. Others place the same characters at pool parties and in nightclubs, which is the world the label operates in1. PC Gamer and GamesRadar both treat the label as one of the story's three or four main threads rather than a side business34.
How it connects to the story
The label is the thread tying three of the game's named characters together, and Trailer 2 was where Rockstar put them on screen, introducing Boobie, Dre'Quan and the Real Dimez alongside Jason and Lucia as part of the wider cast unveiled that day2. The framing is a business under pressure rather than a going concern: the club feeds the studio, the studio needs a hit, and the drug money underwrites both1. What has not been established is how, or whether, Jason and Lucia intersect with any of it3.
Rockstar's captions place the label's characters across strip clubs, pool parties and the studio itself, which spreads Only Raw Records' story across several physical spaces rather than confining it to one building, unusual for a business the site treats as a single named location1.
What is still unknown
Rockstar has not said where the studio physically sits in Vice City, whether the player can enter it freely, or whether music production is a mechanic rather than a story backdrop3. The Extended Look showed nightclubs and the wider nightlife economy but nothing publicly identified as a studio session players control5.
How it compares to earlier GTA music scenes
GTA has used the music industry as a backdrop before, notably CJ's early run-ins with West Coast rap culture in San Andreas and the various radio-DJ cameos across the series, but a fully staffed, playable-looking record label with its own rival-artist history, a named early hit ("an early hit single with local rapper DWNPLY"), and its own internal power struggle between a strip-club financier and an ambitious young producer is a more structured business than the series has attempted before1. It plays closer to a self-contained storyline than a piece of set dressing13.
Gameplay hints
The specific line-up of screenshots Rockstar has published, an engineer at a mixing desk, Bae-Luxe in the booth with headphones, the group posed together with Dre'Quan's hands on their shoulders, and the Real Dimez dancing on a car hood in front of a crowd filming on their phones, sketches a path from studio session to street promotion to public performance1. That is a plausible mission arc even though Rockstar has not confirmed one, and it lines up with the viral-video culture GamesRadar and PC Gamer both flagged as a recurring theme across GTA 6's marketing14.
Community theories
Because Boobie, Dre'Quan and the Real Dimez were all introduced together in Trailer 2 rather than via the Only in Leonida site first, community discussion has treated the label as one of the game's clearest secondary storylines, on a similar tier to Franklin's story-adjacent characters in GTA 5, though Rockstar has not said how large a role it plays relative to Jason and Lucia's own arc23. That spread also means the label's story likely surfaces gradually, through side characters and settings the player passes through, rather than being confined to missions explicitly labelled as Only Raw Records content1.
Frequently asked questions
Who owns Only Raw Records in GTA 6?
Boobie Ike, in partnership with Dre'Quan Priest. Rockstar describes it as the venture Boobie is most invested in1.
Which artists are signed to Only Raw Records?
Real Dimez, the duo made up of Bae-Luxe and Roxy1.
Can you run the record label in GTA 6?
Rockstar has not said. The label is established as a story thread, but no business mechanic has been announced3.
Who is DWNPLY in GTA 6?
A local rapper Rockstar's bio credits with giving the Real Dimez their early hit single, five years before they signed to Only Raw Records. No further detail on the character has been given1.
Sources
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