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Looks like Mos Def's gone all upwardly mobile on us: the Brooklyn MC has packed up and moved Downtown. MTV News reports that the mighty Mos is the latest signing to Downtown Recordings, home to Art Brut, Gnarls Barkley, Eagles of Death Metal, and others.

Others like Spank Rock, who recently completed a remix of Justice's "D.A.N.C.E." with Mos Def and his Bangers & Cash associate Benny Blanco, according to MTV. Because, after all, that song could really use a good remix or two.

No word on just when you'll get to hear them "D.A.N.C.E.", or whether Mos has a follow-up to last year's troubled True Magic waiting in the wings. Or if the album is going to end up being the follow-up to itself.

Mos Def has been busy lately helping to lead the charge in support of the Jena Six, six African-American teenagers in Jena, Louisiana charged with attempted murder after the beating of a white schoolmate. The beating was allegedly in retaliation for white students' hanging of nooses on school property. Mos helped organize a mass walkout and protest in Jena in late September.