Ultramagnetic MC's had an article in that TLC issue, and heads were saying they should've gotten that cover.


>...TLC on the cover for the explicit reason of not giving it
>to the Beastie Boys instead (who were about to release "Check
>Your Head"). I got that issue when it dropped, and I've looked
>over it many times over the years. Yhe Beastie Boys were the
>ONLY other aritst that they covered that month that could have
>conceivably gotten the cover story that month. But they opted
>to put the R&B group with only slight hip-hop undertones over
>the white-boy rap group about to release an album with rock
>overtones (but still a good deal of straight hip-hop).