Now for some serious music coming out of Duke. Hip hop newcomer Mike Posner had a prime CMJ showcase time, has opened for 50 Cent, has been written up in The New York Times, The New York Post, Time Out New York, travels to college campuses every weekend to perform, and was on Carson Daly. And that’s just this past month. Today, Perez Hilton TWEETED his love for Mike Posner’s sound. Mike Posner is a current Duke senior, who is seriously poised to make a significant dent in the hip hop industry in 2010, and is very much one of my artists to keep an eye on.

The mixtape is incredible, his live energy is totally palpable, I was sorry to have missed his set at CMJ, but I did get to see him perform earlier in the month on Governor’s Island, where he shared a bill with Kid Cudi and 50 Cent. Seriously. As the mixtape says, expect Posner’s full length album to drop in 2010, and trust me, you will be seeing much, much more of this kid before then.

Check out his segment on Last Call with Carson Daly above.

Download Mike Posner’s BRAND NEW mixtape “One Foot Out The Door” HERE! Or for free on iTunes U  (although you do have to follow some instructions here to be able to sync an iTunes U download to your legit iTunes library/iPod/iPhone).