Even if there were tweets about drugs and violence, doesn’t necessarily mean anything on the internet.
A lot of kids pimp themselves up without doing anything like that at all.
With the baggie, the pipe, the unexplained jewelry, the vandalism, the screw driver, truancy, etc. Martin’s efforts to fit in with his homies strikes me as being off in a different direction than the earnest high school student thinking about college.
The fact that his mother didn’t want him hanging out with his friends while he was suspended for ten days makes me wonder how many of his friends are still in school.