Tom Hardy at the Paramount+ "MobLand" New York Premiere at SVA Theatre on March 31, 2025 in New York, New York. Kristina Bumphrey/Variety
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Remember a few years back when we wrote a story about Busta Rhymes visiting Tom Hardy on a movie set and he posted a picture of the two with a caption insinuating that they were going to work on something together? Well, the time is finally here.
Hardy is stepping in the booth and turning on his rap persona Frankie Pulitzer, aka “Face Puller,” to drop a collab album with CZARFACE, the rap group consisting of 7L & Esoteric and Wu-Tang Clan‘s Inspectah Deck. Czarface Meets Frankie Pulitzer is due in a couple of months on Aug. 28 and will feature Busta, Method Man and EL-O.
They know that it’s a pretty long wait, so they dropped the project’s first single “Brothers Grimm” along with the release date announcement, and Frankie stands toe-to-toe with Deck and Eso as he opens his verse with the lines, “I ride a pale horse with a face like Kaws/ It’s the Source/ Not the latest news/ I’m divorced on the truth/ Noose tied on the course branch, shuffle boots/ Kick a stool with the force/ Release me from the loop.”
This won’t be the first time the Face Puller linked up with the CZARFACE Cartel. He’s been on more than a handful of tracks dating back to 2021 when he was featured on a couple of the songs on their Good Guys, Bad Guys EP, some of which were highlighted in Hardy’s movie Venom: Let There Be Carnage that same year.
Check out “Brothers Grimm” below.