Weekend News Roundup! Spice Up Your Life

Happy Monday! Here’s our compendium of pop culture news you may have missed while you were doing more important things over the weekend. 

• Season Seven of The Walking Dead premiered last night on AMC. If you missed the first six seasons and are worried about catching up, do not fret; John Cleese has made a very helpful four-minute recap video. [YouTube]

• Here is a video of MØ and Mel C. performing “Say You’ll Be There.” [Pitchfork]

• And a slideshow of the best dog costumes at the Tompkin’s Square Park Halloween dog parade. [Gothamist]

• Boo! A Madea Halloween won the box office. Jack Reacher was a close second. Moonlight, however, made the most money per theater it was shown in. [BOM]

• Eric B. and Rakim are getting back together after 24 years for a tour and an album. [Rolling Stone]

• On the subject of duos, Soulja Boy and Bow Wow are releasing a joint album next week. [XXL]

• And finally, start your week the right way with this poor quality video of Obama dancing to “Hotline Bling” with Usher. [CoS]