Rapper's Best Friend 3 is the seventh instrumental compilation album by American hip hop producer and recording artist the Alchemist.

The compilation 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.

[2] It was a psychedelic visual promo for RBF3,[3] directed by the acclaimed music video director Jason Goldwatch, with one of the tracks that will be on the album, "Shut The F*ck Up" (which was the beat for the song "STFU Pt.

In the end of the video there was a release date announcement for the instrumental album (September 30, 2014), and the reveal of the cover artwork and the official track list.

[4] The compilation was released on the stated date, with promotion from the Alchemist on Twitter with tweets like: "Today is the day that you're gonna pay 10$ because you like my beats [link to the album's iTunes page]"[5]