The album's first single, "Let Em Know", was released on September 9, 2016.[3] The album's second single, "All There" featuring Bankroll Fresh, was released on October 6, 2016.[4]
Trap or Die 3 received generally positive reviews from critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream publications, the album received an average score of 70, based on five reviews.[5]
Andy Kellman of AllMusic said that on the album "Jeezy doesn't say much that deviates from previous ice-veined rhymes, but he attacks just about every track with intense focus and ferocity".[10]HipHopDX reviewer Ural Garrett said that "Pretty Diamonds" is the best track of the album, but felt that the album was below expectations, saying: "Jeezy is better than Trap or Die 3 and he knows it".[11]
Trap or Die 3 debuted at number one on the Billboard 200, earning 89,000 album-equivalent units, of which 73,000 were pure album sales.[12] It became Jeezy's third number-one album.[12]