This article originally appeared in the July issue of AUX Magazine.

If you were born after 1990, chances are, you don’t remember life before the Internet. You might not even remember dial-up. When the kids of my generation were agonizing over which MP3s to download from Napster/Morpheus/KaZaA/Audio Galaxy/Limewire (because they took hours to finish on a 14.4k modem), the babies of the 90s were sitting in their bassinets, unaware of the cornucopia of music that would one day be bestowed upon them, thanks to the marvelous invention of broadband Internet.

These five artists were all born after 1990. They grew up fully ingrained in the ‘net, and in every case, their artistic rise has been independently facilitated and enhanced by means of social media. Let’s examine how social media has played a part in their rise to prominence.

For the full article, featuring Azealia Banks, Kitty Pryde, Casey Veggies, Little Nikki, and Chief Keef, head over to Pop Hunter.