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Dr. Dre, Imani, Lamar and Franklin posing together next to the GTA Online The Contract logo.

GTA Online: The Contract, starring Franklin and Dr. Dre, lands December 15

Rockstar announced The Contract for GTA Online: Franklin, Lamar and Chop return with an agency and Dr. Dre as a client. Out December 15, 2021, with MOTOMAMI Los Santos.

This article is from December 8, 2021. Some details may have changed since then.

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Eight years after GTA V, Franklin Clinton is back. On December 8, 2021, Rockstar announced The Contract, a new story for GTA Online arriving December 15 on all platforms of the time.

The setup

Franklin has left the heists behind and started F. Clinton and Partner, a “celebrity solutions” agency that fixes problems for the rich and influential. You come in as a partner through Lamar, who hasn't changed one bit.

The first big client comes via DJ Pooh: none other than Dr. Dre, whose phone, loaded with unreleased music, went missing on a trip to Cayo Perico. Getting it back drives the story.

Who's in it

Character

Role

Franklin Clinton

GTA V protagonist and the agency's owner

Lamar Davis

His longtime friend, who brings you into the business

Imani

The agency's tech and data expert

Chop

Franklin's dog, along for the ride

Dr. Dre

The VIP client

DJ Pooh

The connection who brings Dre to the agency

Dr. Dre, Franklin, Imani and Lamar in promotional art for The Contract.

December 13 update: the music

Two days before launch, Rockstar detailed The Contract's music:

  • MOTOMAMI Los Santos, a new station hosted by ROSALÍA and Arca, featuring Caroline Polachek, Daddy Yankee, Aventura, Bad Gyal (produced by Keinemusik) and ROSALÍA's “LA FAMA” with The Weeknd.
  • Big Boy's Radio Los Santos adds new tracks from Hit-Boy, Freddie Gibbs with Pusha T, Offset, and Mozzy with YG, plus ScHoolboy Q's Nez-produced “Let's Get It.”
  • West Coast Classics adds “Dre Day” to DJ Pooh's selection.
  • DāM-FunK scores the update.
Poster announcing the West Coast Classics and Radio Los Santos updates in GTA Online.

Why it mattered

It was the first time a GTA V protagonist returned as a central GTA Online character, at a point when Rockstar had already confirmed that GTA V for current-gen consoles would arrive in 2022. With Dr. Dre on board and unreleased music, The Contract was pitched as the release of the year, and it arrived on December 15.