But, as viewers will come to see when the new seventh season — the first to air in 16 years — premieres on Oct. 24, the reality TV newcomer overcame his fear and nerves and ended up becoming somewhat of a peacekeeper among the star-studded cast. «I guess the mind-blowing part would be the constant having to put out fires in the house type thing amongst people,» Alsina said. «Somehow I, you know, was tapped upon to kind of help deal with situations in the house amongst people for situations that I actually wasn't a part of to even see exactly what happened.»Alsina is understanding.

As he pointed out, he and the rest of the cast — which includes Tamar Braxton, Dennis Rodman, Frankie Muñiz and Stormy Daniels -- were filming amid the life-changing effects of the coronavirus pandemic. «The reality is that everybody is dealing with their own trauma and pain in whatever way and we were going into filming this probably like right -- the pandemic wasn’t even over necessarily, but I think right after everybody had been kind of locked away kind of in their own space with their family and then you're going into this new world where you're going around people you don't know and you're also dealing with stuff back home, so it was kind of just a lot of pent-up emotions that everybody was carrying — myself included,» Alsina explained. «It really was just, I think, a new space, new environment, new people, old emotion, pent-up emotion, new experience that brings new emotion, so it was just a lot of emotion flying around at times.»In July 2020, in the midst of the pandemic, Alsina became a household name when.

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