Fetty Wap met with the child that was inspired by him at a concert last week at the Fillmore Auditorium in Denver. Jayden Burgos was born with retinoblastoma, which is a form of eye cancer and when he saw Fetty Wap without his eye, and was inspired to go to school without a prosthetic eye.
Burgos, now 11-years-old, lost his eye before his first birthday, according to Daily Mail and Fetty Wap lost his eye as a child to glaucoma.
Burgos’ mother, Brenda Vaden, shared the experience on Instagram of when her son met Fetty Wap.
“Can’t believe this happened,” she writes in the caption of an image of her son with Fetty Wap. “@fettywap1738 treated Jayden like a little brother, so cool. I cried. Like hysterically lol. Ha. Oh well, best night ever ?#jaydenmeetsfetty #zoogang@rgfproductions @nittdagritt”
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Fetty Wap met with Burgos and his family backstage after the show and gave the fan an autographed poster. He also gave him some life advice.
“Stay different, stay living, enjoy life,” Vaden says the rapper told him in another Instagram post.
The two first connected when Burgos’ mother, Brenda Vaden, reached out to the Paterson, New Jersey native on the social media website to thank him for inspiring her son. Fetty Wap responded with gratitude for them supporting him.
(This article was first published on September 15, 2015 and is as follows.)
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A young Fetty Wap fan who was born with retinoblastoma was inspired to go to school without his prosthetic eye after seeing Fetty Wap without his eye.
The boy’s mother, Brenda Vaden, took to Instagram to thank the New Jersey rapper and share her story.
“This young rapper unknowingly gave Jayden something we weren’t able to give him-the confidence to be different- and I am grateful to him,” she writes. “Thanks to Fetty Wap for saying F the world this is me, and for helping make our baby boy just a little more remarkable than he already is. And we’ll be purchasing his album, a small thank you to him for changing Jayden’s life forever.”
Fetty Wap heard about Jayden’s story and responded.
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“All I wanna do is show ppl that it’s not how you look or what you see it’s how you see it and what your looking for from yourself. I appreciate his confidence I appreciate you taking the time out for me and thank you for being a fan or me as a person and thank lil man for being a fan of Fetty Wap 100.”
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