Matthew Cox | Inside True Crime Podcast
What the Streets Took From Me | Ex-Gang Leader Tells All
18 Apr 2025
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I got in the bloods when I was in the sixth grade. I had two kids by the time I was 16 years old. My old mother, she was not like the other average gang leaders. I got plenty of money. I got four or five cars. I got houses, and I'm only 16 years old. I ran in front of the gun and get shot in this hand first. That's why I missed this finger. But I don't know him.
I don't know my little brother here. I don't know. I don't know nothing. The only thing I'm going to try to do is save my brother. Knocked off this finger. Knocked off this finger. Knocked off this finger. Now, I remember looking over and seeing my little brother on the ground. I'm in the hospital bed. I just keep asking, like, where's my brother? Where's my brother?
Now, I got this hospital guy on. So I go to the door. And I, like, look out the door. And, like, the police officer, he ought to have talked to the nurses. Look again. I strike out running.
snatch the shit off and just went around the heads if somebody wanted to kill me today i would never see it coming because i've started i've been in tour with so many different people different cities different states i don't know what it's gonna cost so i gotta live every day of my life like damn where it's gonna come from tell people this all the time i was more happy and comfortable locked up than i was free
Hey, this is Matt Cox. And I feel funny with you being here. All right. Listen, just for your information, I feel silly doing it, okay? So don't think, boy, he's taking it natural. He's very natural. I feel silly, okay? So I know what I sound like. All right. Just don't be an asshole the whole time. I'm not. So, what's so... Is that I know how hard... How you want to come off hard.
And I was telling my wife, I was like, you don't have a problem because... I said, you're going to be telling stories and I'm going to be like, come on now. Did you feel bad about that? He's going to be like, Matt, Matt, Matt, Cox, stop it. It's all right. All right. Hey, this is Matt Cox and I am here with, I'm going to say Travis. That's cool. Is that cool? Okay.
Hey, this is Matt Cox and I am here with Travis Luke. He is a former, he was the, he is a former gang leader in South Carolina. Man, all the time we need to get on from George. Damn it. Damn it. Let me try it again. I feel like, honestly, like leaving all the cuts in, like leave all that. Hey, this is Matt Cox, and I'm here with Travis Luke, and he is a former gang leader from Georgia.
He and I were incarcerated in Coleman, I'm going to say Coleman Federal Complex, because I don't want to say hello. Right. That makes it sound like you're soft. And I don't want anybody to know, because I know, I know. I ain't no soft man, I just. I know you're, I get. So anyway, yeah. So we're going to be doing a very serious interview and I appreciate you guys watching. So check this out. Hi.
So Colby then plays some, you know, he does, and then that, you know, it'll, and then he'll cut this part out and then it'll play. And then I'll be like, well, you know, I'll do the whole, well, I appreciate you coming. Okay.
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