Payday is a Los Angeles-based pop-rapper from Seattle. Much of her work, which draws from a diverse set of genres, is influenced by her hometown in Washington.

Seattle

"Fort Casey is a park on Whidbey Island, Washington, with these abandoned bunkers. It's a bunch of abandoned spooky bunkers that I used to go camping there as a kid, and it was really fun to play hide and seek in the spooky abandoned bunkers. Recently they repainted it and made it all nice now, so it's a tourist attraction, but I missed when it was still like rusty metal, scary ass bunkers because it was just more fun."

Fort Casey State Park

"Another place is GameWorks in Seattle, like a super sick arcade. There are lots of Japanese games involving instruments, almost like Guitar Hero, but they have drums and a xylophone — those are so fun because the songs are always upbeat and crazy."

GameWorks

"Howarth Park in Everett that's where 'White Mercedes' was filmed. It's like a childhood park for me because not only is it a park with a playground, basketball and tennis courts, but there's also a little forest and the ocean, so it has everything you could want."

Howarth Park

"I love Kayak Point. There's the ocean and the woods and I always see so many seals there. I love to see their little heads out of the water — it's so silly."

Kayak Point

"I'd take friends visiting Seattle to Chinatown for sure, and we'd go to Uwajimaya, which is like an Asian grocery store with also a food court. I'd probably get a roasted duck with them, like a Banh Mi sandwich, because that shit is so good."

Uwajimaya

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