Exactly. Even in an industry and a culture that celebrates meaningless and silly things, I've never understood why this guy got turned into some legend. Even if you assume rap music can be good (which I don't but that's another issue), there are other "Rap artists" who had much more of a musical impact than him. And then he got shot in some gang dispute -- Martin Luther King, he ain't.
Celebrated cop killer Assata Shakur is his step aunt, that is possibly why the lefties celebrate him.