Music is why producer Peace 586’s name rests on the cover of his sixth solo album today instead of a tombstone.

“Without music, I’d be dead,” he told Sphere of Hip-Hop. “There are no if, ands or buts.”

This year, Peace used what kept him alive to try to change lives. On Wednesday, he released The Honey Bee, a 16-track LP of instrumentals and songs inspired by his wife, Melissa Vasquez, who doctors diagnosed 12 years ago with multiple sclerosis (MS). Before the disease stole her ability to speak in 2010, she asked her husband to fight it.

The Honey Bee, which in Greek means the name Melissa, is Peace’s fight. He has long donated money out of his mail carrier paycheck, but for the first time he will donate 100 percent of a project’s profits to the National Multiple Sclerosis Society.

“If it wasn’t for her, there’s no way I would do any of this,” Peace said. “I don’t have the time, patience or energy to do it. But at the end of the day, it’s for her. It’s something that she would want.”

Buy: 586beats.bandcamp.com/album/the-honey-bee

via SOHH