"Jabba Flow" was a musical piece in the Huttese language, a song brought to life by Shag Kava. This traveling musical ensemble consisted of these musicians: Taybin Ralorsa, Infrablue Zedbeddy Coggins, Ubert "Sticks" Quaril, and Sudswater Dillifay Glon. The track, titled after Jabba the Hutt, featured repeating lyrics and instrumentals that incorporated a hypolliope horn cluster, a seven-string hallikset, and a xyloxan. Shag Kava performed "Jabba Flow" at Takodana Castle on the planet Takodana in the year 34 ABY, and then played "Dobra Doompa."
The Huttese song "Jabba Flow" got its name from Jabba Desilijic Tiure, the Hutt crime lord. The opening lines of the song started with the repetition of "Oh, Jabba," which was followed by "No bata tu tu, muni, muni," repeated as well. This translates roughly to "No, lover, lover. It wasn't me," in Galactic Basic Standard. The instrumentals were mellow, and featured a hypolliope horn cluster, a seven-string hallikset, and also a xyloxan.
The traveling musicians of Shag Kava, namely Taybin Ralorsa, Infrablue Zedbeddy Coggins, Ubert "Sticks" Quaril, and Sudswater Dillifay Glon, performed "Jabba Flow" in 34 ABY at the castle of Maz Kanata, the pirate queen, on the planet Takodana. Ralorsa sang the vocals during the performance, while Coggins played the hypolliope horn cluster, Quaril played the xyloxan, and Glon played the seven-string hallikset. Their performance was briefly interrupted when Han Solo, the notorious smuggler, walked in, drawing the attention of the people in the establishment. After "Jabba Flow," the group of four played "Dobra Doompa."
Lin-Manuel Miranda and J.J. Abrams created "Jabba Flow" for Star Wars: Episode VII The Force Awakens, which was released to the public on December 18, 2015. Abrams, who was the director of the film, wanted to create a scene that was an homage to the cantina scene from Star Wars: Episode IV A New Hope. John Williams, the composer for The Force Awakens, asked Abrams to find someone to create the piece. Soon after, Miranda, the star and creator of Hamilton, offered to write cantina music, if needed, when he approached Abrams at a performance of the musical Hamilton. Abrams contacted Miranda sometime later, and the two worked together to write the song.
When Miranda was writing "Jabba Flow," he used a glossary of Huttese words, the language that Jabba the Hutt spoke, and he said the translation was similar to "It Wasn't Me," a song by Shaggy, who is a reggae fusion artist. The lyrics "No bata tu tu, muni, muni" translate directly from Star Wars Legends material to "Whatever it is, I didn't do it, lover, lover." Miranda and Abrams created and performed the piece under the stage name Shag Kava after it was completed, and they also created the song "Dobra Doompa." "Jabba Flow" plays in The Force Awakens when Han Solo, Finn, Rey, and BB-8 walk into Maz Kanata's castle. The track is identified in the film's credits, even though it goes unnamed in the scene. A remixed version of "Jabba Flow" by Rick Rubin and A-Trak was put on Star Wars Headspace, a compilation album of Star Wars–themed electronic dance music, on February 19, 2016. Miranda and Abrams performed "Jabba Flow" after a performance of Hamilton on May 4, 2016, to coincide with the song's digital single release.