Jimi "DJ Jimi" Payton was a club deejay who also worked with DJ Irv in the early 1990's. Working out of a club called Big Man's, Jimi honed his crowd-hyping skills, and in 1992 he was signed to Isaac Bolden's Soulin' Records. He recorded a single for the label entitled (The Original) Where They At, which was similar to Tucker's song, but far from identical. Jimi's song introduced infectious chants like "Put a hump in your back and shake your rump" and "Shake that ass like a salt shaker