Tom Hardy To Drop Hip-Hop Album With CZARFACE, Method Man, Busta Rhymes & More

Tom Hardy is stepping back into Hip-Hop with a full-length CZARFACE collaboration, turning his once-secret rap alter ego into a full project.

Tom Hardy is bringing one of Hollywood’s best-kept secrets to the front as the actor is set to release his first full-length rap album. And he’s doing it with CZARFACE, one of the most beloved underground acts.

The project, Czarface Meets Frankie Pulitzer, arrives Aug. 28 and marks Hardy’s most ambitious musical release to date under his rap alter ego, Frankie Pulitzer. For the record, he’s also known as Face Puller. The album also boasts appearances from Method Man, Busta Rhymes and EL-O.

Hardy has quietly built credibility within underground circles over the past several years through a series of collaborations with CZARFACE. The group is comprised of Inspectah Deck, 7L and Esoteric. He recently appeared on songs from the group’s Good Guys, Bad Guys EP, contributed to Czarmageddon and Czartificial Intelligence. Some of the music even showed up in the Venom film franchise.

The announcement arrived alongside the release of “Brothers Grimm,” which continues to lean into gritty boom bap production and dense rhyme schemes.

Hardy, an A-list actor, is known mostly for performances in films such as The Dark Knight Rises, Mad Max: Fury Road, Legend and the Venom franchise. But his connection to Hip-Hop stretches back before Hollywood.

Hardy began rapping as a teenager under the name Tommy No. 1 and spent years recording music. He was influenced by New York’s late 1990s underground rap movement. Ultimately acting became his primary focus.

In 2018 an unfinished mixtape recorded years earlier was uploaded by his longtime collaborator Edward Tracy. The collection, Falling on Your A### in 1999, introduced fans to Hardy’s early lyricism.

The upcoming album represents the first time Hardy has fully embraced that side of himself on a major collaborative project.

For CZARFACE, the partnership continues the group’s tradition of blending comic book mythology, razor sharp lyricism and unexpected twists.

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