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'Star Wars' Fans, Lin Manuel-Miranda and J.J. Abrams Just Made Your Day

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The "Hamilton" star and the "Star Wars" director performed and released their co-written song today.
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As if "Hamilton" wasn't hot enough, with yesterday's announcement that it had been nominated for a record-breaking 16 Tony Awards, the hit musical hit the proportions of a loaded Starkiller Base Wednesday.

On what's known as "Star Wars" day, thanks to the pun "May the Fourth Be With You," composer and "Hamilton" star Lin-Manuel Miranda took to the steps of the Richard Rogers theater in Midtown to perform the song he co-wrote for "Star Wars: The Force Awakens."

Making his Broadway singing debut alongside Miranda was the song's co-writer, "Star Wars" director J.J. Abrams.

The reggae-influenced track — which plays during an Episode VII scene set in a pirate's watering hole not unlike the cantina in the original "Star Wars" — is written in the language of alien gangster Jabba the Hutt, and its lyrics translate into "No lover, lover, it wasn't me," Miranda explained.

"It's literally a Shaggy intergalactic remix," he said. 

The idea for "Jabba Flow" sprouted when Abrams ran into Miranda during an intermission at a "Hamilton" show a year ago, the director told the superfans outside the Rodgers Theater Wednesday.

"If you need music for the Cantina, I'm your guy," Abrams recalled Miranda saying. "And I said, 'You're not going to believe this: I need music for the cantina."

"Jabba Flow" is now available for streaming on the official "Star Wars" site and download on iTunes.

► Related: Where to Celebrate 'Star Wars' Day (a.k.a. May the Fourth)