That's not what she said. She said that all new artists gets shitty deals the first time, and that they did too. She wasn't saying that theirs was just like TLC's. It couldn't have been. 'TLC' was literally a property owned by Pebbles' company, which then negotiated a record deal with LaFace, which was a division of Arista, which itself was owned by BMG. There were at least 4 companies with their hands in the pot collecting profit from TLC's earnings before the group members themselves were able to get paid.

Xscape most likely did have a crappy contract, but unless they were owned by a production company and signed to a label through that production company the way TLC was, theirs couldn't have possibly been as bad.