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‘His ability is hard to deny’: is Tom Hardy a secretly good rapper?

The unconventional actor is releasing a new hip-hop album, the latest unlikely new string to his bow, but the big surprise is that he might actually be great As good as he is as an actor, perhaps the best thing about Tom Hardy is how he will sometimes pop up unannounced and reveal that he is secretly quite good at other non-acting things. In 2022 he surprised the world by rocking up to a Brazilian jiu-jitsu competition held in a Milton Keynes secondary school and wiping the floor with everyone. He loves dogs with such a ferocious intensity that children’s authors are resigned to the fact that he will never read their book on CBeebies Bedtime Stories unless it has a dog in it. And now he’s a rapper. It has been announced that Tom Hardy’s new rap album Czarface Meets Frankie Pulitzer is being released in August. And, in true Tom Hardy style, it turns out that he has secretly been quite goo

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The unconventional actor is releasing a new hip-hop album, the latest unlikely new string to his bow, but the big surprise is that he might actually be great As good as he is as an actor, perhaps the best thing about Tom Hardy is how he will sometimes pop up unannounced and reveal that he is secretly quite good at other non-acting things. In 2022 he surprised the world by rocking up to a Brazilian jiu-jitsu competition held in a Milton Keynes secondary school and wiping the floor with everyone. He loves dogs with such a ferocious intensity that children’s authors are resigned to the fact that he will never read their book on CBeebies Bedtime Stories unless it has a dog in it. And now he’s a rapper. It has been announced that Tom Hardy’s new rap album Czarface Meets Frankie Pulitzer is being released in August. And, in true Tom Hardy style, it turns out that he has secretly been quite goo

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According to The Guardian’s source item, ‘His ability is hard to deny’: is Tom Hardy a secretly good rapper?, The unconventional actor is releasing a new hip-hop album, the latest unlikely new string to his bow, but the big surprise is that he might actually be great As good as he is as an actor, perhaps the best thing about Tom Hardy is how he will sometimes pop up unannounced and reveal that he is secretly quite good at other non-acting things. In 2022 he surprised the world by rocking up to a Brazilian jiu-jitsu competition held in a Milton Keynes secondary school and wiping the floor with everyone. He loves dogs with such a ferocious intensity that children’s authors are resigned to the fact that he will never read their book on CBeebies Bedtime Stories unless it has a dog in it. And now he’s a rapper. It has been announced that Tom Hardy’s new rap album Czarface Meets Frankie Pulitzer is being released in August. And, in true Tom Hardy style, it turns out that he has secretly been quite goo

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