Exclusive Video: Mike Posner Plays 'Cooler Than Me,' 'Falling'

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Mike Posner is just 22 years old, but he's already released his major-label debut, 31 Minutes to Takeoff, two mixtapes (recorded in his dorm room) and gotten props from Kanye West and Jay-Z. He even performed at Bonnaroo just a couple of weeks after accepting his diploma from Duke University.

The Michigan-born rapper/singer recently stopped by the Rolling Stone offices to give an intimate performance. Watch him playing his top 10 hit, the Carly Simon-quoting "Cooler Than Me," along with the album-closer "Falling."

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Song Stories

“V.T.T.L.O.T.F.D.G.F.”

Fishbone | 1985

Quite a few musicians have utilized initials for song titles -- Michael Jackson's "P.Y.T.," Abba's "S.O.S.," Donald Fagen's "I.G.Y.," etc. But the more curiously initialed tune has to be "V.T.T.L.O.T.F.D.G.F.," short for "Voyage to the Land of the Freeze-Dried Godzilla Farts." Fishbone's original guitarist, Kendall Jones, explained to Rolling Stone, "When Norwood [Fisher] wrote it, he introduced it to the band saying, 'Man, I've been hearing about all these Nazi right-wing groups on the news saying the Holocaust was staged. So what if America said it never dropped two atom bombs on Japan, that it was actually Godzilla popping a couple off?' Only Norwood would come up with something that out." The same year "V.T.T.L.O.T.F.D.G.F." was released, the film Godzilla 1985 appeared in North America.

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