--- title: Diddy Helped James Corden Win Rap Battle With Ashton Kutcher description: James Corden and Ashton Kutcher faced off on "Drop the Mic" and Sean Diddy Combs called the winner canonical: https://time.com/5309832/james-corden-ashton-kutcher-diddy/ author: Melissa Locker article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2018-06-13T15:24:10.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:53:23.234Z og:title: Diddy Helped James Corden Make Drop the Mic History og:description: Next level disses og:url: https://time.com/5309832/james-corden-ashton-kutcher-diddy/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltef99f1dfe96fd3f9/698932f77cdbac2480d5d25a/ashtonkutcherdiddyjamescordenrapbattle.jpeg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1266 og:image:height: 712 og:image:alt: AshtonKutcherDiddyJamesCordenRapBattle og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Diddy Helped James Corden Make Drop the Mic History twitter:description: Next level disses twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltef99f1dfe96fd3f9/698932f77cdbac2480d5d25a/ashtonkutcherdiddyjamescordenrapbattle.jpeg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Diddy Helped James Corden Win a Rare Rap Battle Victory Against Ashton Kutcher > Sponsored content. 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On Tuesday night’s episode, [Corden](http://time.com/collection/2017-time-100/4736215/james-corden/) faced off against noted rapper Ashton Kutcher who wowed the judges by saying Corden looked like “the baby of Kim Jong-un and Donald Trump” and dropping a _Dude, Where’s My Car?_ reference into his rhymes. “People see me at valet, they say, ‘Look, it’s a star!’ People see you at valet, they say, ‘Dude, where’s my car?’” Kutcher spit. While normally a pop culture reference of that caliber would guarantee a win, last night [Corden](http://time.com/4947964/james-corden-sean-spicer-response/) came prepared with a few movie and television references of his own, plucked straight out of Kutcher’s IMDB profile. “_Valentine’s Day_ and _New Year’s Eve_ are movies you fumbled, you ruined more holidays than a Trump-loving uncle,” Corden rapped. “You joined _Two and a Half Men_ when producers intervened, it’s the only time people thought, ‘Man I miss Charlie Sheen.’” Corden finished Kutcher off with a brutal diss: “You invested all your money in [technology and apps](http://time.com/4984326/ashton-kutcher-email/). Hell, I’d do the same thing if I knew I couldn’t act.” Reggie Watts was supposed to name the winner, but it was too close for one man alone to call, so he brought in a little back-up: Diddy. After calling it “one of the closest battles in The Late Late Show history” he couldn’t help but give Corden the win, but by “only half a point.” ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5309832/james-corden-ashton-kutcher-diddy/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5309832/james-corden-ashton-kutcher-diddy/"},"headline":"Diddy Helped James Corden Win a Rare Rap Battle Victory Against Ashton Kutcher","datePublished":"2018-06-13T15:24:10.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:53:23.234Z","description":"James Corden and Ashton Kutcher faced off on \"Drop the Mic\"","url":"https://time.com/5309832/james-corden-ashton-kutcher-diddy/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Ashton Kutcher","Late Night Television","james corden","The Late Late Show with James Corden"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltef99f1dfe96fd3f9/698932f77cdbac2480d5d25a/ashtonkutcherdiddyjamescordenrapbattle.jpeg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Melissa Locker","jobTitle":"","url":"https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltef99f1dfe96fd3f9/698932f77cdbac2480d5d25a/ashtonkutcherdiddyjamescordenrapbattle.jpeg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"AshtonKutcherDiddyJamesCordenRapBattle","caption":"","creditText":"","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/5309832/james-corden-ashton-kutcher-diddy/","name":"Diddy Helped James Corden Win a Rare Rap Battle Victory Against Ashton Kutcher"}}]}] ```