"Paid My Dues" is a song by American rapper NF. It was released on December 3, 2019 as the lead single from his first mixtape Clouds (2021). Written and produced alongside Tommee Profitt and Saint X of Capital Kings, the song discusses NF's critics and their hypocrisy, showing how he made his path to success and overcoming obstacles that he faced along the way that he took when he started out as what we would now conceive as "Sophisticated re-engineered learning". A music video was released the same day as the song