Dre’Quan Priest

Overview

Confirmed Dre’Quan Priest was always more hustler than gangster. Even when he was dealing on the street to make ends meet, Rockstar says, breaking into music was the goal. He now runs Only Raw Records with Boobie Ike.

Confirmed With the Real Dimez signed, his days of booking acts into Boobie’s strip club may be numbered: Rockstar says he has set his sights on the wider Vice City scene.

Key facts

• Confirmed Introduced: with Trailer 2 and the official People pages, May 6, 2025.
• Confirmed Label: Only Raw Records, run with Boobie Ike.
• Confirmed Artists: the Real Dimez, Bae-Luxe and Roxy.
• Confirmed Before the label: street dealing, to pay the bills.
• Confirmed Boobie’s view of him: Boobie’s bio calls him a young, aspiring music mogul and names their partnership as the venture Boobie is most invested in.
• Confirmed Official cards: his tagline plays on the label’s name with a dramatic pause before the word Records, and another card welcomes someone to the label.

How he finds hits

Confirmed Dre’Quan’s best-known official line explains his method. The dancers at the club work as his A&R scouts, and if a record goes over well on their floor, the DJs will be playing it.

Our read That makes Boobie’s strip club the label’s test market as well as its bank. It fits Boobie’s own line that the club’s money pays for the studio, and it explains why Dre’Quan has been booking acts into the club at all.

In official screenshots

• On screen Standing behind the two Real Dimez at a party with balloons, a hand on each one’s shoulder.
• On screen In a teal Manatees jersey and cap in a recording studio, standing beside an engineer at a mixing desk as people watch from the back of the room.
• On screen In a blue suit jacket at a nighttime pool party, leaning on the bar while guests in swimsuits sit around the pool.
• On screen Arms crossed in a club under purple light, drink in hand.
• On screen With Boobie outside the Jack of Hearts, leaning on an open car door.
• On screen In the passenger seat while Roxy of the Real Dimez drives, in one of the duo’s stills.

Confirmed Rockstar’s own descriptions match: the studio still puts Dre’Quan directly beside the man at the equipment, and the car still has him looking out of the driver’s side window from the passenger seat.

Our read

Our read Dre’Quan is the bridge between Boobie’s money and the Real Dimez’s audience, and Rockstar writes him as someone about to outgrow the club. The studio, pool party and club stills show a man working every room in Vice City’s music world, which is where Jason and Lucia are likely to cross paths with him.

Questions

Who does Dre’Quan work with? Confirmed Boobie Ike, his partner at Only Raw Records, and the Real Dimez, the duo he signed.

Was Dre’Quan a gangster? Confirmed Rockstar says he was always more of a hustler than a gangster: he dealt on the street to pay the bills while aiming at music.

What does Dre’Quan want? Confirmed A hit, and a place in the wider Vice City music scene beyond Boobie’s club.

How does Dre’Quan pick records? Confirmed By the dancers’ reaction at the club, according to his official line: a hit there means the DJs will play it.