{"id":586032,"date":"2026-08-31T16:22:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-31T16:22:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/586032\/"},"modified":"2026-08-31T16:22:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-31T16:22:09","slug":"tom-hardy-resurrects-bane-voice-on-first-rap-album-under-frankie-pulitzer-moniker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/586032\/","title":{"rendered":"Tom Hardy resurrects Bane voice on first rap album under Frankie Pulitzer moniker"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tom Hardy<\/a> has released his first official rap album with Czarface, featuring guest appearances from\u00a0Busta Rhymes<\/a>,\u00a0Method Man<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0El-P<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The\u00a0Oscar<\/a>-nominated actor performs under his Frankie Pulitzer moniker on \u2018Czarface\u00a0Meets Frankie Pulitzer\u2019,\u00a0which arrived on Friday (August 28) via Silver Age,\u00a0having been first announced in June<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The 15-track album is a full-length collaboration with Czarface, the hip-hop collective comprising Wu-Tang Clan<\/a>\u00a0rapper\u00a0Inspectah Deck<\/a>\u00a0and underground duo 7L & Esoteric.<\/p>\n

The record\u00a0sees\u00a0Hardy\u00a0making sly references to his own acting career, including on \u2018Grim-Visaged War\u2019,\u00a0which sees him\u00a0recite the opening \u201cwinter of our discontent\u201d monologue from Shakespeare\u2019s\u00a0Richard III,\u00a0using the\u00a0distinctive\u00a0voice of\u00a0Bane\u00a0from\u00a02012\u2019s\u00a0The Dark Knight Rises.<\/p>\n

\u2018Raw Forever\u2019,\u00a0his collaboration with Busta Rhymes, includes references to\u00a0Nicolas Cage <\/a>and Martin Scorsese<\/a>\u2019s 1999 film\u00a0Bringing Out\u00a0The\u00a0Dead.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m bringing out the dead like a paramedic out the Cage, directed by Marty,\u201d Hardy raps, before invoking\u00a0Willem Dafoe<\/a>\u2019s Green Goblin from 2002\u2019s\u00a0Spider-Man<\/a>\u00a0and Marvel villain Doctor Doom.<\/p>\n

On \u2018Mad Technology\u2019,\u00a0meanwhile, Hardy\u00a0invokes\u00a0Stephen King<\/a>\u2019s\u00a0Cujo\u00a0and\u00a0Misery, delivering an explicit reference to the latter film\u2019s Oscar-winning star\u00a0Kathy Bates<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou shit-for-brain no-name lame, that bites like Cujo,\u201d he\u00a0raps. \u201cI\u2019d rather masturbate to Kathy Bates than hear you flow \/ And you know that misery, it loves company.\u201d<\/p>\n

The actor\u2019s history with hip-hop stretches back\u00a0to the time that he\u00a0recorded a mixtape titled \u2018Falling\u00a0On\u00a0Your\u00a0Arse\u00a0In 1999\u2019\u00a0under the name Tommy No. 1.\u00a0That\u00a0project surfaced online in 2018<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Later\u00a0that year,\u00a0reports\u00a0also\u00a0emerged that Hardy was working on a grime album<\/a>, although that\u00a0project\u00a0never\u00a0materialised.<\/p>\n

Czarface, meanwhile,\u00a0have\u00a0released\u00a0collaborations with\u00a0Ghostface Killah<\/a>\u00a0and the late\u00a0MF DOOM<\/a>.\u00a0Their second\u00a0album\u00a0with DOOM, 2021\u2019s \u2018Super What?\u2019,\u00a0received three stars from NME<\/a>,\u00a0with the review noting: \u201cIt\u2019s often said that Esoteric\u2019s voice recalls the clipped drawl of\u00a0Jay-Z<\/a>, but here the similarities aren\u2019t merely linguistic \u2013 the\u00a0Czarface\u00a0MC rhyming atop production that wouldn\u2019t feel out of place segued into\u00a0Hova\u2019s\u00a0seminal \u2018The Blueprint\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n

Away from music, Hardy will return as fixer Harry Da Souza when\u00a0the second season of\u00a0<\/a>MobLand<\/a>\u00a0premieres<\/a>\u00a0on September 18.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tom Hardy has released his first official rap album with Czarface, featuring guest appearances from\u00a0Busta Rhymes,\u00a0Method Man\u00a0and\u00a0El-P. The\u00a0Oscar-nominated…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":586033,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[156,4916,157,111,139,69,4917],"class_list":["post-586032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-hip-hop","tag-music","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-rap"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/586032","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=586032"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/586032\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/586033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=586032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=586032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=586032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}