what is art?

What is art?
In the bay area the rap music is very different. It has many names
such as hyphy but mostly it is all electronically produced. I enjoy
listening to a lot of the music but I am slow to calling the music art
or the creators' artist. When I think of music that is art I always
figure that the artist are the ones to create the sounds. Like a
drummer beat on a drum, or someone playing a piano. Today's latest
popular rap music is synthesized and the beats are computer generated.
What I love about rap music in the 1990's is the samples they use are
pieces from instruments that people created. In my mind it makes the
music much more artistic. Also some members of the rap community make
music themselves and rap over it like the roots and the beastie boys,
both are bands that decided to become rappers.
Also much of the music in the bay area is only produced from a few
people and they sell out their beats to other rappers. The music ends
up sounding much the same. I am saying that a type of music that is
over copying each other and is created by processing machines is not
artwork.