If you’d told Mike Posner he was destined to become a hip-hop sensation before he became a college graduate, he might have reacted the way many of us would–a blank stare and a “What the hell are you on?” look as he made his way to his next class lecture. Yet in less than a year, Posner has already been snatched from a somewhat predictable life as All-American College Student, and plunged into a wonderland where his recordings are already taking the ‘net by storm– and he’s only begun his senior year at Duke. Posner spent the better part of his 2008 school year walled up in his dorm room and working on what he calls a “mix tape” (read: CD), churning out the best beats and rhythms he could come up with. In January 2009, he released the music as an LP, A Matter of Time, and became one of the genre’s newest hot topics. Within a couple of months, the CD was out, the bidding war had begun, and Posner had become an overnight sensation (albeit through a great deal of hard work and long hours).
