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...
Using his grandmother and mother as his backup dancers, Jimi toured regionally to support the record and soon recorded a follow-up album for Soulin'/Avenue that featured production by Leroy "DJ Precise" Edwards and introduced the first recordings of a young rapper named Juvenile, now the most famous hip hop artist to emerge from New Orleans.