Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
Source	Rating
AnyDecentMusic?	7.2/10
Metacritic	76/100
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic
Consequence of Sound	B–
Exclaim!	8/10
The Guardian
HipHopDX	3.8/5
PopMatters	8/10
Pitchfork	7.9/10
Spin	7/10
Tiny Mix Tapes
XXL	3/5 (L)

Slime Season 3 is a mixtape by American rapper Young Thug. It was released on March 25, 2016, by 300 Entertainment and Atlantic Records. It serves as the third and final installment to the Slime Season series. The mixtape consisted of eight tracks, which features guest appearances from Yak Gotti, Duke and Peewee Roscoe, with the production by several record producers that was handled by Mike Will Made It, London on da Track, Allen Ritter, Isaac Flame and MariiBeatz, among others.

Slime Season 3 received generally positive reviews from critics and debuted at number seven on the Billboard 200. It also debuted at number one on Billboard's Top Rap Albums chart.

Young Thug announced the release date of Slime Season 3 through a funeral procession at SXSW in Austin, Texas. The coffin was covered in red graffiti scribblings that revealed the album's title and the release date. Written on the casket was "3.25.16" and "Slime Season". Lyor Cohen teased the funeral on Snapchat, saying, "Today in Austin, we're gonna bury Slime Season 3." Be El Be expanded on Twitter saying. "What Lyor meant was, dropping SS3 and getting past all the talk and this era of thug," he posted. "Moving forward to dropping albums and hits SS3 OTW [❗️]".

Slime Season 3 received generally positive reviews from critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream publications, the mixtape received an average score of 76, based on 11 reviews. James Wilt of Exclaim! said, "Every song justifies its spot: the Allen Ritter-produced "Drippin'" serves as a standout, exhibiting a staccato delivery and manic yelling, both of which are new to his already vast sonic vocabulary." Adam Kivel of Consequence of Sound said, "This record feels a little too brief, especially trailing off at the end. But if the chief complaint about a Young Thug record is that he's too focused, it shows he's honing in on that perfect blend that will launch him into the stratosphere." Narsimha Chintaluri of HipHopDX said, "Young Thug's extensive catalog is spotted with dynamic moments and this project seems to forgo such progressiveness. The range is still there, but sectioned into neatly packaged offerings." Brian Duricy of PopMatters said, "His delivery is somehow still getting better, and Slime Season 3 succeeds as an exercise in discovering just how elastic syllables are."

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