Talk:Alexander the Great vs Ivan the Terrible/Rap Meanings/@comment-44649116-20191212110003

"Empress to Tsar 8, bitch. Checkmate" could also be a reference to Catherine being the wife of Emperor Peter III who was the 8th Emperor of Russia. She would thus be the Empress to Tsar 8.

I don't know if Peter III used the title Tsar, although other Emperors of Russia after him were called Tsar, so maybe that counts. I don't know a lot about Russian history, but that's how I always interpreted the lyric.