--- 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=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 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=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Diddy Helped James Corden Win a Rare Rap Battle Victory Against Ashton Kutcher by [Melissa Locker](https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/) ## Melissa Locker Jun 13, 2018 3:24 PM UTC  by [Melissa Locker](https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/) ## Melissa Locker Jun 13, 2018 3:24 PM UTC James Corden has been waging wars against musicians and actors in a series of rap battles on _The Late Late Show_. On Tuesday night’s episode, he finally won. In “Drop the Mic” Corden faces off in rap battles against the likes of Helen Mirren and Dr. Phil. In the face of such illustrious competition, Corden hadn’t been able to win a single battle—until last night when he got a little boost from Sean “[Diddy](http://time.com/5088366/diddy-new-name-love/)” Combs, who knows a thing or two about rap battles. 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"}}]}] ```