After years of waiting, protesting and memeing, Bobby Shmurda is finally getting released from prison. If you're not aware of who Bobby Shmurda is, he's a trap and rap artist who was on the rise in the New York music scene — that was … before he got arrested and subsequently locked up. Since then, he became a sort of martyr for an entire generation of rap fans, always proud to proclaim that Shmurda should be freed from jail. This has persisted for years until the fateful day has come, and it is his time to be freed. Unfortunately, his freedom also coincided with Daft Punk breaking up, which is referenced in several of his recent memes. In celebration, let's take a look at 20 pivotal memes from his past few years.

Memes involving Bobby Shmurda come in a few varieties. There are the memes that reference him in fleeting regard, saying he should be freed and nothing more, or ones that run counter to that ideology and believe that him being locked up is truly justified (and that he shouldn't be released yet). Due to the jail time, images of Shmurda throughout the years were hard to come by, meaning that the memes made of him were mostly constructed using older photos with captions or just blank backgrounds with words written on them. Once hype started to increase and it looked like he would actually be getting out, people began making memes out of his hat from an earlier music video, saying that it is on its way back to its master after all this time.