There’s definitely a Huckleberry Finn thing going on on the cover of Mass Appeal’s 53rd issue. On it, Mac Miller and Schoolboy Q harmoniously walk down train tracks together in a leafy area of Queens, New York. The accompanying feature focuses on the pair’s friendship, starting with how Schoolboy Q gave Mac Miller street cred by saving his life from an aggressive group of LA hip-hop heads.

Schoolboy Q: “He was a white boy that was getting punked on in LA and he needed some help.”

Mac Miller: “I was in the mall, and these dudes were pressing me. They said like Yo, you weak, you trash, and shit. Then Q came up like Yo, spit 16 [bars], and he was like, Ok, you nice.”

Schoolboy Q: “And he got a pass. I was like Man, this little white boy hard. I didn’t know it was him until I went to his big-ass crib, saw his house and all the homies was there. I put two and two together and I’m like Oh, that’s Mac Miller. That’s the little ni**a from Pittsburgh.”