With the Vancouver Canucks heading into the playoffs heavily favoured as Stanley Cup champs, it’s high time fans have a proper rallying cry for their hometown heroes. Enter Kyprios, who just dropped the celebratory “How the West Was One”. The Sweatshop Union member got together with his brother Kevin Coles and Swollen Members’ DJ Rob the Viking to produce a spaghetti western–infused boom-bap tune about the ’Nucks.

The track tacks Mexicana horns and Ennio Morricone–issue guitar twang atop a deep beat as Kyprios waxes about 40 years of the team’s history, saluting Tiger Williams while quipping about “Burrows, lookin’ like Bure.” Despite his breadth of knowledge about the team, a few classic Canucks didn’t make the cut.

“There are just too many dudes I grew up loving that I couldn’t fit into the song,” the MC said in a call to the Straight. “Tony Tanti died on the editing room floor; I had a line about how you can never be as tantalizing as Tony Tanti.”

How The West Was One by Kyprios BayDay