If you didn’t know "Hamilton" mastermind Lin-Manuel Miranda was asked by J.J. Abrams to write the new cantina song in "Star Wars: The Force Awakens," you will now.
That’s because Miranda and Abrams recently treated fans waiting outside the Richard Rodgers Theater where "Hamilton" is performed to a live rendition of the song.
The performance took place at one of the now-famous "Hamilton" Ham4Ham shows where people wait to try and get tickets to the lauded musical. Sometimes, they’re treated by the cast who come outside to sing songs.
YouTube user Howard Sherman— who frequently posts videos of the Ham4Ham performances — even captured a video of Miranda and Abrams singing the song together (the song starts at the 2:08 mark):
"I had the pleasure of getting to contribute a song on the latest 'Star Wars' movie," Miranda tells the audience. "I co-wrote it with someone who’s incredible and is not known as a composer or performer, but is one and is making his Broadway debut on these steps today. Please give it up for J.J. Abrams."
"I came to see 'Hamilton' about a year ago and I got to meet with this gentleman at intermission," Abrams told the crowd. "And he has a joke: [He] said, 'If you need music for the Cantina, I’m your guy.' And I said, 'You’re not going to believe this, I need music for the Cantina.'"
And just in case you thought this song was nonsense, it’s not. Miranda said he wrote it in "Huttese," which is Jaba the Hut’s native language. Miranda explained he went to a website that had all of the Huttese glossary of terms and translated them for the movie.
What are the lyrics? According to Miranda, "No, lover lover, it wasn’t me."
"It’s basically a Shaggy intergalactic remix," he told the Ham4Ham crowd.
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