| Ivan the Terrible | |
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 Nice Peter as Ivan the Terrible | |
| Character information | |
| Birth name | Ива́н Васи́льевич (pronounced Ivan Vasilyevich) |
| Nickname(s) | Ivan the Terrible Ivan the Fearsome |
| Born | September 3, 1530 Kolomenskoye, Grand Duchy of Moscow |
| Died | March 28, 1584 (aged 53) Moscow, Tsardom of Russia |
| Physical description | |
| Hair | Black |
| Eyes | Dark brown |
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| Rap battle information | |
| Appeared in | Alexander the Great vs Ivan the Terrible |
| Vs | Alexander the Great Frederick the Great Catherine the Great |
| Release date | July 12, 2016 |
| Official vote(s) | TBD |
| Location(s) | Red Square A black background The Cathedral of the Dormition |
| “ | I'm terrible!
— Ivan the Terrible
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Ivan the Terrible battled Alexander the Great, Frederick the Great, and Catherine the Great in Alexander the Great vs Ivan the Terrible. He was portrayed by Nice Peter.
Information on the rapper
Ivan IV Vasilyevich (Russian: Ива́н Васи́льевич), better known as Ivan the Terrible, was born on September 3rd, 1530, in Kolomenskoye, Grand Duchy of Moscow. He was the Grand Prince of Moscow from 1533 to 1547 and the first "Tsar of All the Russias" from 1547 until his death in 1584. His reign, the longest in Russian history, saw many significant changes such as the establishment of Russia's first standing army as well as the conquests of the Khanates of Kazan, Astrakhan, and Sibir (the last of which is considered the beginning of Russia's conquest of Siberia), transforming Russia from a medieval state to a centrally-controlled empire spanning almost one billion acres, approximately 4,050,000 km² (1,560,000 sq mi).
While Ivan was an able diplomat, a patron of arts and trade, founder of the Moscow Print Yard, Russia's first publishing house, and a leader highly popular among the common people of Russia, he was often described as being prone to rages and episodic outbreaks of mental illness. Such increased with his age, especially after the death of his first wife Anastasia Romanovna, and greatly affected his reign. In one such outburst, he struck his son's pregnant wife Yelena Sheremetva for being improperly dressed and when his groomed and chosen heir, Ivan Ivanovich leapt to defend her, Ivan the Terrible struck him, causing his death. On top of that, the incident later caused Sheremetva's baby to miscarry, leaving the Tsardom to be passed to Ivan's younger son, the weak and intellectually disabled Feodor Ivanovich. The Massacre of Novgorod is regarded as one of the biggest demonstrations of Ivan's mental instability and brutality. He died at the age of 53 on March 28th, 1584, in Moscow, Tsardom of Russia while playing chess with his close associate Bogdan Belsky and was succeeded by Feodor Ivanovich who became Feodor I of Russia.
Lyrics
[Note: Ivan the Terrible is in brown, while Alexander the Great, Frederick the Great, and Pompey the Great are in regular text.]
Verse 1:
Look alive, crème de la Kremlin's arriving!
Try to serve Ivan: no surviving!
You're a land rover; I'm a land expander
Here to hand you your first loss, Alexander!
I'll school you like Aristotle!
Smack you harder than you hit that bottle!
You're nothing but an overrated lush; I'll crush ya!
I'm the first Tsar of all of Russia!
You're an asshole with an anastole!
I'm heaven-sent, divine and holy!
So don't even try to approach the God,
Or you'll get a huge sack like Novgorod!
Verse 2:
Enough! (Ugh.) I don't stand a chance against your skills!
на здоровье! A drink to your victory! Yes, I will.
It seems no one can defeat me. I weep; it's all so easy!
(Hoo!) What's wrong? I feel a bit…queasy.
Ha! You've been poisoned! Oh, the pain is unbearable!
My stomach's riddled with holes! (Ugh.) I'm terrible.
There's no great who could defeat this Russian!
Verse 3:
Oh, what a humiliating defeat!
I know when I am beat, so of course, take a seat!
I'd keep ripping you to shreds, but I'll take a break instead
And just rest my little head. Why don't you drop dead, Fred?!
(Hmm.) My expectations were a lot higher,
But at least I saved the rubles on the garrote wire.
It's another great day and another great victory
'Cause no great can beat me! What about me, Pompey? Yeah!
Verse 4:
(Mmm.) What a beautiful queen to beat me in a battle.
Accept this gift, Your Highness. I hear you enjoy the saddle!
Trivia
- A preview of Ivan was shown during the behind the scenes end slate of Frederick Douglass vs Thomas Jefferson.
- He is the second rapper to successfully kill another rapper, after Darth Vader.
- He is the first rapper to attempt to kill multiple rappers.
- He is the second rapper to attempt to kill another rapper but fail, after Kim Jong-il.
- He is the second rapper to hold a title of "the [blank].", after Jack the Ripper.
- He is the first to be a leader.
- In a livestream from ERB2 channel, Lloyd mentioned his favorite Peter performances are Ivan The Terrible and J. Robert Oppenheimer.[1]
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