After years of sharing his expertise on the massive display as Tom Hardy, Frankie Pulitzer has formally arrived to drop some bangers.
The Oscar-nominated rapper launched his 15-track debut album on Friday Czarface meets Frankie Pulitzermade in collaboration along with his hip-hop collective Czarface, and that includes appearances from Busta Rhymes, Methodology Man and EL-O, in addition to nods to Shakespeare, Marvel and Stephen King.
On the observe “Grim-Confronted Struggle”, Hardy recites the monologue “Winter of our discontent” from Richard III in his Bane voice The Darkish Knight Rises (2012).
In “Uncooked Eternally,” his collaboration with Busta Rhymes, Hardy raps, “I carry the lifeless like a paramedic out of the cage, directed by Marty/Frank Pierce, the gang is right here, welcome to the occasion,” referencing Nicolas Cage’s character in Martin Scorsese. Bringing out the lifeless (1999). He continues, “I am type of a scientist like Willem Defoe / if you already know, then you already know, goblin to items,” nodding to Defoe’s Inexperienced Goblin from Spiderman (2002). With one other Marvel reference, he provides: “Physician Doom, how I’m the conqueror of Scripture.” »
In “Mad Know-how”, which options Methodology Man, Hardy makes a number of references to Stephen King, together with an NSFW point out of Kathy Bates in Distress (1990). “You anonymous mind shit, that bites like Cujo / I would somewhat masturbate to Kathy Bates than hear you leak / And you already know, that distress, she likes firm.”
After Czarface started collaborating with a mysterious new rapper in 2021 named Frankie Pulitzer, hypothesis swirled that Hardy was the artist’s secret identification.