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A DJ who simply plays songs at a party or something is not an artist. He or she is an entertainer.
A DJ who scratches, etc on a turntable is a musician. Instrumental musicians often will listen to foreign music to get ideas for their 'new' stuff (think Paul Simon's Graceland). They encorporate other musicians' music into their own and create a new thing. Same with a turntablist. They use other music, then mix and match and scratch etc.. to make their own music.
Just like any other musician, there can be good DJs and bad ones. The good ones are definitely musicians and artists. The bad ones are just...bad. You can't put them all in the same category, which I think some people do, sometimes.
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