Tupac Shakur's Meeting With A Dying Fan Forever Changed The Emcee's Life

Joshua Torres' dying wish was to speak with his hero Tupac Shakur. His mother, Diane Torres, didn't think she could pull off the request for her son who had muscular dystrophy and an enlarged heart but she went ahead and made an attempt. An hour after her Hail Mary call to a local radio station,

Joshua Torres' dying wish was to speak with his hero Tupac Shakur. His mother, Diane Torres, didn't think she could pull off the request for her son who had muscular dystrophy and an enlarged heart but she went ahead and made an attempt. An hour after her Hail Mary call to a local radio station, Shakur and her son were conversing on the phone. "Keep ya' head up," Shakur told the boy during their conversation — a reference to one of the rapper's hit songs — according to the biography, "Tupac Shakur."

The rapper asked Joshua what he could do for him and when the boy asked if he could see him in person, Shakur agreed. "Above the Rim" was filming in New York City and stopped production so Shakur could make Torres' wish come true. "I was really shocked that he stopped what he was doing, got in the jet and came down here to visit my son," Abdul-Hakim Torres told The Baltimore Sun in 1996. "Just like that, Bang! It happened."

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