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Wednesday, November 4, 2009

News / Mike McCray Duke supports Mike Posner — student 'celebrity'

Posted By on Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 4:30 PM

Mike Posner may be living the dream.

During the week, the J Records recording artist is a senior sociology major at Duke University, recording his debut album during free time and touring on weekends.

How many students can sit through a midterm one day then be in the studio with some surprisingly big names days later? It's like the best of both worlds. Being inside the college bubble during the week and then having the opportunity to step out and be a star. What more could a 21-year old ask for?

Posner's newest mixtape, One Foot Out The Door, features guest appearances by Kid Cudi, 3Oh!3, Bun B and Saigon, to name a few, and what's even cooler is instead of searching blog sites trying to find a link to download the whole thing Duke University made the whole mixtape, and Posner's previous one, available free to download on their iTunesU.

For those not familiar with iTunesU, it's basically a university's iTunes artist page. Some schools, like Stanford or Penn, put up videos lectures from their most popular classes, which allows you the chance to sit in classes and learn for free and minus the homework. Other schools, like Clemson closer to home, use the site to get freshman familiar with the university lifestyle and allows them to download things like the fight song and instructional videos of the traditions, how they go and what they mean.

Seeing Duke's love affair and support of their student "star" makes me wonder what if my alma mater had done the same thing.

Then again, making tens of terrible mixtapes and uninventive albums available to the world probably wouldn't have helped to raise our university profile whatsoever. Either way, it's a good look by Duke and a great chance for everyone to get familiar with Posner.

Get Mike Posner's mixtape and more info on him at www.mikeposner.com.

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