Mos Def has tapped longtime friend Kanye West to work on his upcoming album under his new label contract with Downtown Recordings.

According to Billboard, Mos, who recently signed to Downtown, has begun to work on the disc and has enlisted the Louis Vuitton
Don to produce several tracks. The two have worked together numerous
times in the past including Mos lending guest verses to Ye on the
tracks “Two Words” from The College Dropout and “Drunk and Hot Girls” from Kanye’s latest set Graduation. Kanye has also laid tracks for the Brooklyn-bred lyricist previously including “Sunshine” from Mos’ The New Danger.

Downtown label head John Deutsch said the imprint, whose roster includes Gnarls Barkley and Kevin Michael, has no plans of re-releasing Mos Def’s latest offering, Tru3 Magic. The disc received virtually no promotion from Geffen Records and in result only managed to move 86,000 units.

In addition to working on the new disc, Mos also is said to have
eight movie roles in the works through 2009, including a part in the Danny Glover-directed film “Toussaint.”