{"id":1176395,"date":"2026-08-30T00:47:16","date_gmt":"2026-08-30T00:47:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1176395\/"},"modified":"2026-08-30T00:47:16","modified_gmt":"2026-08-30T00:47:16","slug":"tom-hardy-releases-debut-rap-album","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1176395\/","title":{"rendered":"Tom Hardy Releases Debut Rap Album"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tAfter years of sharing his talent on the big screen as <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/tom-hardy\/\" id=\"auto-tag_tom-hardy\" data-tag=\"tom-hardy\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tom Hardy<\/a>, Frankie Pulitzer has officially arrived to drop some bangers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tOn Friday, the Oscar nominee\u2019s rap persona released his 15-track debut album Czarface Meets Frankie Pulitzer, made in collaboration with his hip-hop collective Czarface, and featuring appearances from Busta Rhymes, Method Man and EL-O, as well as nods to Shakespeare, Marvel and Stephen King.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tOn the track \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/AeH_TkPCOYg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Grim-Visaged War<\/a>\u201c, Hardy recites the \u201cwinter of our discontent\u201d monologue from Richard III in his Bane voice from Dark Knight Rises (2012). <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tIn \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=8u2PrcJODCw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Raw Forever<\/a>\u201c, his collab with Busta Rhymes, Hardy rapped, \u201cI\u2019m bringing out the dead like a paramedic out the cage, directed by Marty \/ Frank Pierce, the gang\u2019s here, welcome to the party,\u201d referring to Nicolas Cage\u2019s character in Martin Scorsese\u2019s Bringing Out the Dead (1999). He continues, \u201cI be somewhat of a scientist like Willem Defoe \/ if you know, then you know, goblin up crumbs,\u201d nodding to Defoe\u2019s Green Goblin from Spider-Man (2002). With another Marvel reference, he adds, \u201cDoctor Doom how I\u2019m the Victor the scripture.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tIn \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/ex6qyu8e-o0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Mad Technology<\/a>\u201c, which features Method Man, Hardy makes several Stephen King references, including a NSFW mention of Kathy Bates in Misery (1990). \u201cYou 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.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tAfter Czarface began collaborating with a mysterious new rapper in 2021 named Frankie Pulitzer, there was speculation that Hardy was the artist\u2019s secret identity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After years of sharing his talent on the big screen as Tom Hardy, Frankie Pulitzer has officially arrived&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1176396,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3936],"tags":[77,269,14927,16,15],"class_list":["post-1176395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-music","tag-tom-hardy","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/117181706795122271","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1176395","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1176395"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1176395\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1176396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1176395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1176395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1176395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}