''Smashy Trashy'' is the only studio album by American hip hop duo S.A. Smash. It was released by

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on June 3, 2003. It peaked at number 14 on

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's Hip-Hop chart.

Critical reception

John Bush of

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wrote, "The duo doesn't even stick to a single performance style, ranging from sex-crazed bragging to satirical gangster posturing and down-south balling to underground-type weirdness." Rollie Pemberton of ''

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'' commented that "The reason this album doesn't work is because they don't have the emotional severity and nonchalant allure of commercial artists, they don't have the intelligence and song structure of underground artists, and they can't write a chorus to save their lives." In 2015, Chaz Kangas of ''

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'' included "Love to F*ck" on the "Five Aesop Rock Rarities You Might Have Missed" list.

Track listing

References

External links

* * {{Authority control 2003 debut albums S.A. Smash albums Definitive Jux albums Albums produced by Blockhead (music producer) Albums produced by El-P