Rapper's Best Friend 3 is the third installment in musician and producer The Alchemist's instrumental series "Rapper's Best Friend", and Alchemist's 10th instrumental release. The other two albums in the series, Rapper's Best Friend and Rapper's Best Friend 2, were released in 2007 and 2012, respectively. The album contains selected beats produced by the Alchemist that were used as instrumentals for rap songs of artists like Evidence, Prodigy, Durag Dynasty, Schoolboy Q and more in the past few years. All songs were produced by The Alchemist.