NIGERIA, Nov. 28 -- Fame has always been a dangerous friend. It loves you loudly, then abandons you quietly. It shows up with applause, cameras, lights, and limitless praise, then disappears the moment it feels taken for granted.

Fame is a beautiful lie. It shines so brightly that people forget how thin the thread is. One minute the world is screaming your name and the next minute the same world is asking why you are still here. Art lasts forever but fame does not. Fame is a loan. Every generation learns this lesson through one artist or another. Today, that artist might be Burna Boy. Not because he has stopped being talented, but because the world has changed and the audience he once believed he had in the palm of his hand is beginning ...