Kanye West announces three year-end dates at Revel

By Tris McCall/The Star-Ledger The Star-Ledgeron November 20, 2012 at 1:03 PM, updated November 20, 2012 at 1:45 PM

Flyer than a parakeet, floating like a parachute: Kanye Omari West Michael Loccisano/Getty Images

"I'm not perfect," confessed Kanye West to the sold-out crowd at Revel's Ovation Hall this July, "but my music is."

The perpetually audacious producer and rapper will put that boast to the test again, and on the same stage. West will return to Ovation Hall for concerts on the 28th, 29th, and 30th of December. Tickets for the shows will be generally available through Ticketmaster at 10 a.m. on Friday, Nov. 30; pre-sales for Citi Card holders begin on the 27th.

There have been thousands of pop concerts held in Atlantic City this year, but it's safe to say that none were quite like West's. Part party, part soliloquy, part skills demonstration, part endurance test, and part Monument to Me, the West show at Ovation Hall was one of the indelible concerts of 2012. If you weren't there, well... you probably should have been, just to be able to tell your grandkids that you lived through the experience. (They'll think you! 're exaggerating.) The emcee appeared onstage with a troupe of ballet dancers who added interpretive choreography to his intense, emotionally candid performances. West broke his show into three acts like an opera, and spent much of the last third singing "Runaway," the epic self-loathing anthem from "My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy," through heavy Auto-Tune. West was joined by visionary musicians Mike Dean and Jeff Bhasker. Bhasker has had a big year, contributing to stellar records by fun. and Taylor Swift, among others; hopefully, he'll be back onstage with Kanye in December.

West did not put an album out under his own name in 2012, but he's still had a busy year.