Heels Have Eyes 3 dropped December 1, 2025 on Daupe! as the closing chapter of Westside Gunn’s Heels Have Eyes trilogy — a series tied directly to his 4th Rope independent wrestling promotion, released in sync with live events that blend rap performance with actual professional wrestling. The album is 10 tracks, 11 with the outro depending on version, produced across Daringer, Denny LaFlare, Balam, Cee Gee, Crucial The Guillotine, and King JVY B — the full Griselda production stable. Features come from Benny the Butcher, Stove God Cooks, Rome Streetz, and Brother Tom Sos. The cover artwork incorporates imagery referencing the late Virgil (both the wrestler and, by extension in Gunn’s mind, the late Virgil Abloh), threaded most explicitly through the track “Babas.”
What makes this listing extraordinary is the provenance layered on top of an already extremely limited pressing. Daupe’s most restricted variants on this release ran in tiers of 20 copies — the “original cover” designation here refers to a pre-release or alternate sleeve version that was hand-numbered to 100 and made available only at or around live 4th Rope events. This copy is #1/100 — literally the first off the run. The record was signed by Westside Gunn in person at Heels Have Eyes 9, making the chain of custody verifiable and specific: event, signing, copy number. Standard Daupe vinyl variants on HHE3 (yellow sunburst, various splatter colors, etc.) were each limited to 500 copies and last sold on Discogs in the $75–$135 range. An “original cover” signed and hand-numbered copy at #1/100 sits in an entirely different tier.
