After years of sharing his talent on the big screen as Tom Hardy, Frankie Pulitzer has officially arrived to drop some bangers.<\/p>\n
On Friday, the Oscar nominee’s rap persona released his 15-track debut album Czarface Meets Frankie Pulitzer, made in collaboration with hip-hop collective Czarface, and featuring appearances from Busta Rhymes, Method Man and EL-P, as well as nods to Shakespeare, Marvel and Stephen King.<\/p>\n
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On the track “Grim-Visaged War<\/a>“, Hardy recites the “winter of our discontent” monologue from Richard III in his Bane voice from Dark Knight Rises (2012).<\/p>\n In “Raw Forever<\/a>“, his collab with Busta Rhymes, Hardy rapped, “I’m bringing out the dead like a paramedic out the cage, directed by Marty \/ Frank Pierce, the gang’s here, welcome to the party,” referring to Nicolas Cage’s character in Martin Scorsese’s Bringing Out the Dead (1999). He continues, “I be somewhat of a scientist like Willem Defoe \/ if you know, then you know, goblin up crumbs,” nodding to Defoe’s Green Goblin from Spider-Man (2002). With another Marvel reference, he adds, “Doctor Doom how I’m the Victor the scripture.”<\/p>\n In “Mad Technology<\/a>“, which features Method Man, Hardy makes several Stephen King references, including a NSFW mention of Kathy Bates in Misery (1990). “You shit-for-brain no name lame, that bites like Cujo \/ I’d rather masturbate to Kathy Bates than hear you flow \/ And you know, that misery it, loves company.”<\/p>\n After Czarface began collaborating with a mysterious new rapper in 2021 named Frankie Pulitzer, there was speculation that Hardy was the artist’s secret identity.<\/p>\n Best of Deadline<\/p>\n Sign up for Deadline’s Newsletter<\/a>. For the latest news, follow us on Facebook<\/a>, Twitter<\/a>, and Instagram<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After years of sharing his talent on the big screen as Tom Hardy, Frankie Pulitzer has officially arrived…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":876600,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[13061,49,48,304052,304051,304053,75,304049,211696,179634,58874,341,11374,30033,19657,10789,304050,28597],"class_list":["post-876599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-busta-rhymes","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-czarface","tag-czarface-meets","tag-defoe","tag-entertainment","tag-frankie-pulitzer","tag-global-box-office","tag-hardy","tag-kathy-bates","tag-music","tag-oscar","tag-spider-man","tag-stephen-king","tag-tom-hardy","tag-tom-hardys-venom-crossover","tag-tom-holland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/876599","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=876599"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/876599\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/876600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=876599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=876599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=876599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}