A good scratch DJ is just as much a musician as any drummer.

If I'm a musician when I stand at the back of an orchestra and hit a
bass drum or crash some cymbals, then a scratch DJ is a musician also.

They weave complex percussive and rhythmic patterns using sound.

Ignoring any melodic contribution contained in the vinyl they're
playing, they are percussionists, plain and simple.

If they're not musicians, neither is any drummer.

CT