Tom Hardy Drops Czarface Rap Album Packed With Comic References
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- Tom Hardy released "Czarface Meets Frankie Pulitzer," a collaborative album with underground rap supergroup Czarface — duo 7L & Esoteric plus Wu-Tang Clan's Inspectah Deck — under his rap alias Frankie Pulitzer.
- "Raw Forever" stacks references to Martin Scorsese's "Bringing Out the Dead," Willem Dafoe's Green Goblin from 2002's "Spider-Man," Doctor Doom, DC's Sergeant Rock, and "Dog Day Afternoon," with Hardy rapping: "I be somewhat of a scientist like Willem Dafoe / If you know then you know / Goblin up crumbs."
- "Mad Technology" namechecks Stephen King's "Cujo" and "Misery" and delivers the album's most provocative line about Kathy Bates — "I'd rather masturbate to Kathy Bates than hear you flow" — alongside shout-outs to Thor and Shameik Moore, who voices Miles Morales in the Spider-Verse films.
- "Grim-Visaged War" closes with Hardy reciting Shakespeare's "Richard III" monologue in a voice the source describes as "very reminiscent of his Bane performance."
- "Gnawing at My Rhyme Like a Poisonous Rat" sneaks in a Titanic reference: "Yo, you act amused like DiCaprio scratching his pencils."
- Hardy previously guested on earlier Czarface albums and recorded a full project called "Falling on Your Arse in 1999" with producer Edward Tracy (Eddie Too Tall) under the name Tommy No 1 — never officially released but uploaded online in 2018.
Why it matters: Hardy has quietly built a parallel rap career spanning at least two decades — from a 1999 unreleased album with Eddie Too Tall to multiple Czarface collaborations — that has remained essentially invisible alongside his A-list film work. The new album's lyric stack (Bane, Green Goblin, Venom-era Shakespeare) collapses the wall between his acting and music identities in a way no major studio star has really attempted.
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