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For me it was Bad Religion lyrics. 13 year old me would sit down in front of the CD player, booklet in one hand, dictionary in the other. Greg Graffin uses an obscene amount of vocabulary that I haven't encountered anywhere else.
One example:
The masses are obsequious, contented in their sleep. The vortex of their minds ensconced within the murky deep
Yeah, insane. And he sings those lines so easily like it was just basic stuff.
I bet you would like Aesop Rock
https://pudding.cool/projects/vocabulary/index.html
I'm a native speaker and even I learned words from reading that
Lmfao I literally made this meme years ago. I can't deny they've expanded my vocabulary greatly.
I'm a native English speaker, and Greg Graffin did more for my vocabulary than public schools ever did.
Garfunkel and Oates are great for it too