Heavy is the head that wears the crown, unless you tilt it like a New York Yankees cap, as Jay Z has for the better part of the last two decades. Regal in his countenance, the Brooklyn don has rose from the brick and mortar that is Bed-Stuy's Marcy Housing Projects and now sits on a throne that includes a $200 million home, assets galore and the bragging rights of being arguably the greatest rapper to ever pick up a mic.

These days, Jay Z may play the back and positions himself above the fray that is gossip, scandal and rap battles, but once upon a time, the Roc Nation boss was quick to take on any challengers and rising to the occasion more than not. After placing his flag in the dirt with his classic album, Reasonable Doubt, in 1996, it would be a few years before Jay would find himself as the hunter and the hunted, which would occur after dropping his sophomore effort, In My Lifetime, Vol. 1, which would net the rapper his first platinum plaque.

More success would bring more enemies and envy, as Hov would soon learn after finding himself in rap disputes with the likes of heavyweights like Ma$e and Prodigy of Mobb Deep, as well as more obscure talent like Meeno and Jayo Felony. But it would be his epic war with Nas that would certify his rep as a formidable battler of the highest order and would lessen resistance to his claims of being the undisputed king of rap.

Although Jay Z has had no problem calling out rappers by name, as he has done on numerous occasions, a substantial amount of damage was doled out to his opposition in the form of subliminal disses, where he would hint at who he was speaking ill of without providing an identity for the target in question. Playing a big part in popularizing the trend, Jay Z, who will be the first rapper to be inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame this year, is considered by many to be one of the craftiest when it comes to veiled jabs and has influenced MCs like Drake, Kendrick Lamar, J. Cole and others to carry on tradition.

To celebrate Jay Z's most sneakiest digs, we've compiled 20 of the more notorious subliminal disses he's levied against your favorite rapper.