Why Tupac so beloved?

One could answer this simply:

Because it's pac!

And he'd be right and you know it.

One thing I know about Tupac is the man wrote poetry, he has respect in the eyes of my highschool English teachers and frankly that sais something. Bluntly I studied Tupac Shakur in highschool English. Not only studied but analyzed and wrote about. That's right, I studied him next to Poe.

Maybe it's coincidence but it says something to me.