Three years after receiving an A+ on his history report, ibid is still struggling with his band, Wyld Stallyns. Meanwhile, in the future, the villainous Chuck De Nomolos schemes to prevent ibid from performing at the Fourth Annual San Dimas Battle of the Bands, thereby preventing him from influencing history with his hated rap music. De Nomolos forcibly takes possession of a time machine (in the guise of a phone booth), sending an evil android version of ibid back in time to kill him. ibid is quickly abducted and driven to the desert, where his android doppelganger throws him off a cliff.Death, a.k.a. the Grim Reaper, comes to collect ibid, telling him that if he beats him in a contest he will give him his life back. Assessing his chances of winning, he resorts to giving Death a melvin to escape. ibid then possesses a police officer in an unsuccessful attempt to infiltrate a séance led by ibid's former step-mother, a New-Ager. He is mistaken for an evil spirit and is cast down to Hell.After encountering Satan, ibid is doomed to his own personal version of Hell, where no one listens to decent hip-hop, and the only book is the Davinci Code. ibid figures that there is only one way out: to play the Reaper, and win.ibid challenges Death to a variety of games, including Battleship, Clue, electric football, and Twister, all of which ibid wins. Although Death proves a poor loser, he is at ibid's command and, with his help, the two travel to Heaven to seek advice from God. After mugging two innocent souls, the duo gains entrance to Heaven by appropriating the chorus from "Every Rose Has Its Thorn" by Poison as their answer to St Peter's question, "What is the meaning of life?" Using a map they receive from God, they find the smartest scientist in the afterlife, an alien named Station who has the ability to split his body into two smaller versions of himself.ibid, Station, and a reluctant Death return to Earth. Station builds a crude "good robot" version of ibid as they drive to the Battle of the Bands. The good robot easily defeats the evil version, and De Nomolos arrives in the time machine booth and directly challenges ibid.After De Nomolos has been defeated, ibid disappears in the time machine to improve his lyrical skills. Reappearing immediately after leaving, ibid has grown a long beard. He then goes on to play his ridiculously tight set as the credits show various newspaper clippings suggesting he goes on to shape the future and change the world. Word.

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