Editing Harlem (section)

===Gangs===
There are many gangs in Harlem, often based in housing projects; when one gang member is killed by another gang, revenge violence erupts which can last for years.<ref name="Buettner2013">{{cite news |last=Buettner |first=Russ |title=63 Gang Members Indicted in East Harlem Shootings |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/05/nyregion/63-in-e-harlem-gangs-indicted-in-revenge-shootings.html |access-date=June 15, 2013 |newspaper=The New York Times |date=April 4, 2013 |archive-date=May 3, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130503085053/http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/05/nyregion/63-in-e-harlem-gangs-indicted-in-revenge-shootings.html |url-status=live }}</ref> In addition, the [[East Harlem Purple Gang]] of the 1970s, which operated in East Harlem and surroundings, was an [[Italian American]] group of hitmen and heroin dealers.<ref name="LLC1979">{{cite journal |title=New York Magazine |website=Newyorkmetro.com |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ctECAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA44 |volume=12 |issue=19 |date=May 7, 1979 |publisher=New York Media, LLC |pages=44– |issn=0028-7369}}</ref>

Harlem and its gangsters have a strong link to [[Hip hop music|hip hop]], [[Hip hop music|rap]] and [[Rhythm and blues|R&B]] culture in the United States, and many successful rappers in the music industry came from gangs in Harlem.<ref name="AdjayeAndrews1997">{{cite book |last1=Adjaye |first1=Joseph K. |last2=Andrews |first2=Adrianne R. |title=Language, Rhythm and Sound: Black Popular Cultures Into the Twenty-First Century |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mGIRAq5w4ngC&pg=PA135 |access-date=June 14, 2013 |year=1997 |publisher=University of Pittsburgh Pre |isbn=978-0-8229-7177-1 |page=135}}</ref> [[Gangsta rap|Gangster rap]], which has its origins in the late 1980s, often has lyrics that are "misogynistic or that glamorize violence", glamorizing guns, drugs and easy women in Harlem and New York City.<ref name="Ray2013">{{cite book |last=Ray |first=Michael |title=Alternative, Country, Hip-Hop, Rap, and More: Music from the 1980s to Today |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mRDMpGVCkjoC&pg=PA78 |access-date=June 14, 2013 |year=2013 |publisher=The Rosen Publishing Group |isbn=978-1-61530-910-8 |page=78}}</ref><ref name="AdjayeAndrews1997"/>