The Red Clay Strays Call Out Modern, Political Divisiveness With Anthemic New Single “People Hatin'”

The Red Clay Strays are back with a fiery new musical message.

We haven’t heard a whole lot from the Mobile, Alabama band since their wonderful sophomore album Made By These Moments dropped in 2024. Frankly, they’ve been too busy touring and sharing their music with a growing fanbase to get into the studio. That’s at least what we thought.

As it turns out, the Red Clay Strays are sitting on a large collection of new music. Thanks to a recent Joe Rogan Experience interview, we know that they’ve got an album coming out in the summer of 2026, and Rogan certainly made it seem like they’ve already got the project put together.

The Red Clay Strays gave us a sneak peak at that project with the album’s lead single “People Hatin’,” which stands as an anthemic response to modern, political divisiveness. To be clear, it’s not necessarily an anti-political (or anti-Republican or anti-Democrat) message. Instead, it’s just a message of how The Red Clay Strays wish the world could be, and a display of turning hopelessness into a call to action.

The chorus has every member of the band sing that loud and clear:

“Hey, People Hatin’
You’re not listening to what I’m saying
I’m sick of waiting
All this arguing is aggravating
Hey, you People Hatin’
You’re not listening to what I’m saying
I’m so sick of waiting
All this arguing is aggravating.”

Obviously Brandon Coleman’s got an incredible voice, but I do think it was a really powerful choice to have the entire band chant the chorus. Clearly The Red Clay Strays, as a whole, are really fed up with the current state of the world… and what better way to have that come across than by vocally including everyone in the band to shout against what they feel is pulling people apart?

The track couldn’t have come at a better time, and The Red Clay Strays know that. Coleman shared that they had actually already recorded this song back in April in an attempt to touch on the issue of people putting politics first. They never had the plan for it to be their lead single.

Then, in the aftermath of Charlie Kirk’s death and through much conversation, they decided to go ahead and release the song as a single:

“We got so sick of people putting politics over humanity that we had actually wrote a song about it in April in the studio called ‘People Hatin’.’ We weren’t going to put it out as a single at first. We were gonna do another song.

But after the Charlie Kirk thing, we got together and we were like, ‘I think we need to put ‘People Hatin’ out instead for the first single.’ Because we’ve got to stop killing each other over beliefs and stop hating each other over beliefs.”

Amen to that.

The new song gets that message across and then some. It’s loud. It’s impactful. It’s a battle cry. It’s The Red Clay Strays at their best. Make sure to check out the new song from the rising southern rock band… and make an effort to really lean in and listen to the lyrics:

“People Hatin'”

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