Tom Hardy’s alter ego rises.
The MobLand actor shocked fans after he released his debut rap album under the stage name Frankie Pulitzer in collaboration with hip-hop group Czarface titled Czarface Meets Frankie Pulitzer on Aug. 28, proving he really can do it all.
The 15-song project not only includes features from rap legends Busta Rhymes, Method Man and EL-P, but it also contains pop culture-centered lyrics about Hardy’s better-known passion: film.
Indeed, the album features lyrics about his Spider-Man: No Way Home costar Willem Dafoe as well as Martin Scorsese’s 1999 film Bringing Out the Dead in “Raw Forever.”
Meanwhile, the track “Mad Technology” includes literary references from Stephen King.
In “Gnawing at My Rhyme Like a Poisonous Rat” Hardy also draws inspiration from his love for the arts, touching on Titanic’s iconic quote, “draw me like one of your French girls,” as he raps, “You act amused like [Leonardo] DiCaprio scratching his pencils to capture your figure.”
The project also includes an especially nostalgic moment from Hardy’s work as he recites William Shakespeare’s “Richard III” for his song “Grim-Visaged War” in the voice he used to portray Bane in his 2012 film The Dark Knight Rises.