These are tough times, but the Florida classical/hip-hop hybrid duo had a mantra in mind as it recorded its new album Take the Stairs, premiering exclusively below: Hope.

“That was the bullet point word on the wall in the studio in Miami. We wrote it in big letters and had a couple of stripes underneath it to emphasize it,” the group’s Kev Marcus (Kevin Sylvester) tells Billboard. Read the full story on Billboard.com

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