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Tom Hardy releases debut rap album as Frankie Pulitzer, featuring Busta Rhymes and Method Man on 15-track project

Tom Hardy recites Shakespeare's 'Richard III' in his Bane voice on the album, which also features an X-rated line about Kathy Bates.
Tom Hardy recites Shakespeare's 'Richard III' in his Bane voice on the album, which also features an X-rated line about Kathy Bates.
The 15-track debut album, featuring collaborators including Busta Rhymes, Method Man and Run the Jewels's EL-P, was released alongside Tom Hardy's unmasking on Friday.
The 15-track debut album, featuring collaborators including Busta Rhymes, Method Man and Run the Jewels's EL-P, was released alongside Tom Hardy's unmasking on Friday.

Tom Hardy has released his debut full-length rap album, 'Czarface Meets Frankie Pulitzer', a 15-track project with underground hip-hop supergroup Czarface — made up of 7L & Esoteric and Wu-Tang Clan's Inspectah Deck — dropping on Friday under his long-rumoured alter ego Frankie Pulitzer. Hardy has never publicly acknowledged being Pulitzer and performs masked. The 47-minute record came out via Silver Age and includes notable guest appearances from Busta Rhymes, Method Man and Run the Jewels' El-P.

One track features Hardy delivering an X-rated line about Kathy Bates nestled between nods to the Stephen King adaptations 'Cujo' and 'Misery'.

On 'Grim-Visaged War', Hardy performs the 'winter of our discontent' monologue from 'Richard III' in his Bane voice.

Hardy's connection to rap goes back to the late 1990s, when he recorded as Tommy No. 1 — later telling the BBC in 2011: 'I wasn't very good.'

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