first comes marriage, then comes baby in a baby carriage

Following all of that affection at the MTV EMAs Jay-Z opened up to Gotham magazine about wanting kids...

(Jay-Z is on the cover of the mag this month

"Her song “Single Ladies” is an Internet hit among dancing babies and now, Beyonce’s working on a tot of her own. That’s according to get this Jay-Z, B’s notoriously tight-lipped hubby, who spilled the baby beans himself.

While chatting up Gotham mag editor in chief Cristina Greeven Cuomo, the rapper let it slip that procreating is high on the duo’s priority list right now.

That’s big news from hip hop’s sneakiest couple, who wed secretly on a Tribeca rooftop and rarely even wear their own wedding rings in public.

It’s also a change in attitude for Beyoncé, who admitted on “The View” in April that while she was interested in motherhood, she was in no hurry to hit the birthing room after seeing the process upclose when her sister Solange did it.

“I definitely want one, but I’m not ready for all of that,” she said then. “I don’t think a person should see that before her time. It was a little much. But I’m so in love with my nephew, and every time I see him I’m like, God, he’s just amazing.”