{"id":661389,"date":"2026-08-28T18:29:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-28T18:29:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/661389\/"},"modified":"2026-08-28T18:29:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-28T18:29:09","slug":"tom-hardy-raps-about-comic-book-villains-does-bane-voice-on-new-album","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/661389\/","title":{"rendered":"Tom Hardy Raps About Comic Book Villains, Does Bane Voice on New Album"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tTom Hardy<\/a> is best known as a movie star who plays rough-and-tumble characters, and he\u2019s brought that energy to the mic on his latest project. The actor who records music under the alias Frankie Pulitzer just dropped a collaborative album called \u201cCzarface Meets Frankie Pulitzer\u201d with underground rap supergroup Czarface, which consists of duo 7L & Esoteric and Wu-Tang Clan\u2019s Inspectah Deck.<\/p>\n

\n\tFor fans of Hardy\u2019s Hollywood work, he peppers in plenty of film and comic book references into his lyrics. The actor is no stranger to comic lore, as he played the villainous Bane in 2012\u2019s \u201cThe Dark Knight Rises,\u201d as well as portrayed Spider-Man antihero Venom in three standalone movies and a cameo appearance in \u201cSpider-Man: No Way Home.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tIn the song \u201cRaw Forever,\u201d Hardy loads his verse with references to Martin Scorsese\u2019s 1999 film \u201cBringing Out the Dead,\u201d Willem Dafoe<\/a>\u2019s portrayal of baddie Green Goblin from 2002\u2019s \u201cSpider-Man,\u201d Marvel evildoer Doctor Doom, DC Comics hero Sergeant Rock and Sidney Lumet\u2019s classic 1975 film \u201cDog Day Afternoon.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tI\u2019m Bringing Out the Dead like a paramedic out the Cage, directed by Marty
Frank Pierce the gang\u2019s here welcome to the party
I be somewhat of a scientist like Willem Dafoe
If you know then you know
Goblin up crumbs
Hit \u2019em with the fly kill \u2019em with the low
Profile, no smile, exile the old style
So vile, exhale the smoke cloud, blow trial
Dog Day Afternoon
When I talk Sgt. Rock on the block with the Glock aftershock from the boom
Rip you out your costume
Stuff you in the smallest locker, lock you in the locker room
Doctor Doom how I\u2019m the Victor the Scripture<\/p>\n

\n\tIn the song \u201cMad Technology,\u201d Hardy namechecks two Stephen King books-turned-movies (\u201cCujo\u201d and \u201cMisery\u201d), and says something wild about the star of the latter, Kathy Bates<\/a>. Elsewhere in his verse, he shouts out Marvel hero Thor, and later references Shameik Moore, who voices Miles Morales in the \u201cSpider-Verse\u201d films and starred in the drama \u201cDope.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tYou shit-for-brain no-name lame, that bites like Cujo
I\u2019d rather masturbate to Kathy Bates than hear you flow
And you know that Misery, it loves company<\/p>\n

\n\t\u2026<\/p>\n

\n\tBeatin\u2019 P is not an easy chore like defeating Thor<\/p>\n

\n\t\u2026<\/p>\n

\n\tSprinkle Dope Across the Verse, shout to Shameik Moore<\/p>\n

\n\tAt the end of \u201cGrim-Visaged War,\u201d Hardy recites Shakespeare<\/a>\u2018s famous \u201cRichard III\u201d monologue in a voice very reminiscent of his Bane performance.<\/p>\n

\n\tLastly, there\u2019s a \u201cTitanic\u201d reference on \u201cGnawing at My Rhyme Like a Poisonous Rat.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tYo, you act amused like DiCaprio scratching his pencils
To capture your figure you love the attention that\u2019s all clear<\/p>\n

\n\tAlthough Hardy has not spoken publicly about his work as Frankie Pulitzer, he is no stranger to rapping, having previously appeared on other Czarface albums as well as dropping a few loose collaborative singles.<\/p>\n

\n\tHardy also recorded an album at the turn of the millennium called \u201cFalling on Your Arse in 1999\u2033 under the moniker Tommy No 1, along with his producer friend Edward Tracy, aka Eddie Too Tall. The record was never properly released, but it appeared online in 2018. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tom Hardy is best known as a movie star who plays rough-and-tumble characters, and he\u2019s brought that energy…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":661390,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[264],"tags":[18,117,19,17,151758,337,169293,120080,27509],"class_list":["post-661389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-eire","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-kathy-bates","tag-music","tag-shakespeare","tag-tom-hardy","tag-willem-dafoe"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/117174557991669330","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661389","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=661389"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661389\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/661390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=661389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=661389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=661389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}