{"id":386313,"date":"2026-08-31T17:58:13","date_gmt":"2026-08-31T17:58:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/386313\/"},"modified":"2026-08-31T17:58:13","modified_gmt":"2026-08-31T17:58:13","slug":"dark-knight-rises-actor-tom-hardy-has-a-rap-album-and-theres-an-ybor-city-nod","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/386313\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Dark Knight Rises’ actor Tom Hardy has a rap album, and there’s an Ybor City nod"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Tom Hardy in his Frankie Pultizer mask. Credit: Screengrab via Czarface\/YouTube<\/a><\/p>\n

English actor Tom Hardy is a rapper now, and his new album with hip-hop supergroup Czarface has a brief but notable nod to historic Ybor City.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Czarface, which consists of Boston duo 7L and Esoteric, as well as Wu-Tang icon Inspectah Deck, released its latest album Czarface Meets Frankie Pulitzer, over the weekend and if you didn\u2019t guess it, Tom Hardy raps under the pseudonym Frankie Pulitzer.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"Youtube<\/p>\n

In the video for \u201cMad Technology<\/a>\u201d featuring Method Man, Hardy is almost unrecognizable in a full face mask, while he raps the lines:\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cFrankie, me, myself and I is who I\u2019m speaking for<\/p>\n

Sprinkle dope across the verse, shout to Shameik Moore<\/p>\n

Catch me out in Ybor City with a sweet whore<\/p>\n

Try to photograph me, and nah, I take the detour\u201d<\/p>\n

Besides the little shout out to actor Shameik Moore, who voiced Miles Morales in the Spider-Verse animated films, and also starred in the the movie \u201cDope\u201d among other things, Hardy clearly wants you to know that if you ever see him in Ybor City with a \u201csweet whore\u201d do not take his photograph.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The 15-track album features notable rap names like Busta Rhymes, Method Man and EL-P, and it\u2019s not a stretch to say this is a solid rap album from front to back.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

Neither the group or Hardy really advertised that the \u201cDark Knight Rises\u201d and \u201cVenom\u201d star had a secret rap life, but rumors have been circulating since at least 2021 that Czarface was collaborating with a mysterious new rapper named Frankie Pulitzer, widely hinted to be Tom Hardy.<\/p>\n

This isn\u2019t the first time Ybor City has gotten some love in popular music. Jason Isbell once referenced one of his many benders in a lyric (\u201cDamn near strangled by my appetite \/ In Ybor City on a Friday night \/ Couldn\u2019t even stand up right\u201d) in the song \u201cTravelling Alone\u201d from his Grammy-winning album Southeastern.<\/p>\n

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This article appears in August 27 \u2013 September 02, 2026<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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