In most cases these are an issue of poverty and rebellion, Cultural expression is a byproduct not a cause.
You cant compare a rapper some or thug in the hood to the sophisticated criminal activity of the american mafia. The mafia are men of honor and they can even identify people on the internet.
Organized crime has a vast network and a wide array of tools at their disposal. Needles in a hay stack are no longer needles but very large items easily spotted.
And you claim to be from the NY hood? Yer a generation behind the good the community has done. Or maybe you just do not have a sense of humor? Check it, byatch!
Mafia would prey on their own kind who were weaker and extort them for money and dealt with hookers and drugs....so sophosticated....