daniel spent much of 1998 and 1999 getting arrested with ridiculous, comical frequency, building up a rap sheet that now reads not so much like a soap opera as an epic Russian novel. At first, his difficulties with the law made him a larger-than-life figure, the ringmaster of rap's most cartoonish sideshow. Sadly, his life inevitably slipped out of control, and the possibility that his continued antics were at least partly the result of conscious image-making disappeared as time wore on. Despite being sentenced to prison on drug charges in 2001, it's worth noting that while he was running amuck, dan's offenses were largely nonviolent; the saddest part of his story is that, in the end, the only person he truly harmed was himself.