Hip-hop's hardest-working couple, Jay-Z and wife Beyoncé Knowles, may soon be trading bottles of Cristal for baby formula. "The most important thing on the horizon [for Jay] seems to be a plan to have children with Knowles," Gotham magazine says in its November issue. "When [Gotham editor in chief Cristina Cuomo] asked him about having babies and a family, he said yes to that," a rep for Gotham tells Life & Style.

This isn't the first time the rapper, 39, has opened up about his dreams of fatherhood. "Most people want to have a family someday," he's said. "So I'm just a regular American boy."

In fact, those closest to Jay say he's been ready to start a family with Beyoncé, 28, whom he wed in an intimate rooftop ceremony at their New York City apartment building last year, from the get-go. "Jay wanted to marry B and make babies with her from practically the moment they met," an insider close to him tells Life & Style. "Jay has never hidden his desire for children. After Beyoncé agreed to marry Jay and before the wedding, he began referring to her as 'wifey' and 'my baby's mama.'"

For more on Beyoncé and Jay-Z family plans, pick up the latest issue of Life & Style, on newsstands now!

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